THE CANADIAN NATURALIST - A Series of Conversations on the Natural History of Lower Canada

Edité par Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, Toronto, 1971

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372 pp. Trade paperback format. First Thus - republishes the John van Voorst, London, 1840 edition. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with forty-four engravings. The Chapters are: JANUARY FIRST: Pleasures of Natural History; Expansive Power of Frost in Trees; Variety in Forms of Trees; Variety in All Created Objects. FEBRUARY FIRST: Silver Thaw; Brilliance of the Meteor; Love of Nature; Cause of the Phenomenon; Virginian Deer; Flakes of Snow; Frosted Windows; Uses of Snow. FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH: Masses of Snow on Evergreens; Wolf; Anecdotes; Ferocity of Carnivorous Animals; Puma; Lynx; Otter; Beaver; Musk-rat; Equalization of Blessings of Providence; Tokens of Extreme Cold; Sunset; Northern Lights. MARCH FIRST: Sundog; Insects; Snow Owl; Masuippi River; American Hare; Moose. MARCH FIFTEENTH: Power of Resisting Cold; Mammals; Birds; Temperature of Cold-blooded Animals; Mosses and Lichens on Trees. APRIL FIRST: Sugaring; Tapping the Maple; Favourable Kind of Weather; Extent of a Sugary; Collecting Sap; Boiling Down; Sugar from Other Trees; Canada Goose; Bare Ground Around Stumps. APRIL FIFTEENTH: Song of Birds; Ruffed Grouse; Honey-bees; Exhilarating Effect of High Elevations; Strange Note of the Blue Jay; Piping Frogs. MAY FIRST: Robin; Green Comma Butterfly; Mosquito; Black Fly; Smudge; Early Settlers; Canada Thistle; Cattle in Pastures; Emmigration to Canada; Misstatements of Writers; Evils of a New Country; Glory of Nature; Cackling of Frogs. MAY TENTH: Belted Kingfisher; Woodpecker; Bald Eagle; Tamarack; Black Cherry. MAY TWENTIETH: Purple Grakle; Reflections of Colour; Poplars; Curious Facts; Wild Gooseberry; Willows; Insects; Indians; Their Warfare; War-whoop; Domestic Manners; Religion; Government; Language; Sufferings; Anecdotes; Evening Walk. MAY TWENTY-FIFTH: Spiders' Webs; White and Red Death; Humming-bird; Crows; Raven; Native Fishes; Maskilonge; Sturgeon; White Dolphin; Seals; Common Dolphin; Capture of One; Squirrels. JUNE FIRST: Musquitoes; Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly; Moosewood; Wild Strawberry; Leafing of Forest Trees; Providence of God; Mushroom. JUNE TENTH: Beauty of Summer; Natural Affinities of Insects; Quivering of the Air; Evening Scenery Contrasting with Morning; Singular Light Once Seen by the Author. JUNE TWENTIETH: Buttercup; Red Clover; Singing Birds; Appearance of Forest; Straightness and Nakedness of Forest Trees; Gloom of Forest; Age of Trees; Tenacity of Life. JULY FIRST: Transformations of Insects; Moths; Puff-balls; Raspberry; Redtop Grass. JULY FIFTEENTH: Climate; Thundershower; Subsequent Freshness; Fog; Agricultural Productions; Weeds; Canada Thistle; Habit of Counterfeiting Death; Skunk; Its Fetid Odour; Dandelion; Scattering of Seeds. AUGUST FIRST: Zebra Hawk-moth; Horse Gad-fly; Bull Frog; Toad; Tree Frog; Field Locusts; Virginian Deer. AUGUST SIXTEENTH: Decayed Trees; Indian Hen; Indian Wickup; Rainbow. SEPTEMBER FIRST: Black Bear; Mode of Fighting; Depredations on the Indian Corn; Farmer's Revenge; Wolves; Cherries; Canadian Blackberry; Tints of Foliage; Pigeons; Singular Forms of Insects. SEPTEMBER TENTH: Excursion to the Bois Brule; A Slash; Old Mill; Fruits and Berries; Character of the Woods; Arched Lane. SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH: Autumnal Frosts; Threshing Buckwheat in the Field; Fading of the Leaves of Trees; Waterfowl; Migration of Aquatic Birds. OCTOBER FIRST: Beautiful Hues of the Forest in Autumn; Cause of the Fall of Leaves; Leaves as Manure; Wild Geese Migration; Snow in September. OCTOBER SIXTEENTH: Indian Summer; Peculiar Weather; Freezing of the River; Winter Wren; Ignorance of Natural History Hurtful to the Farmer; Frozen Apples; Effect of Frost in Loosening Leaves. NOVEMBER FIRST: Clear Bright Weather of Autumn Unlike that of Summer; Beautiful Forms of Frost; Hoar Frost on Grass; Skeleton of Leaves; Migratory Birds. DECEMBER FIRST: Uses of Winter; Our Feelings an Insufficient Criterion of T Size: 8vo.…

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Titre
THE CANADIAN NATURALIST - A Series of Conversations on the Natural History of Lower Canada
Auteur
Gosse, P. H.
Éditeur
Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, Toronto
Année de publication
1971
État de l'article
Very Good+
Type de livre
Book
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Soft cover
Édition
First Printing - First Thus.
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