Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This fifth edition of Buckley's…

Written to show how electrical apparatus can be assembled at little cost for engaging instruction of scientifically-curious youth, this work includes descriptions of simple experiments that demonstrate elementary…

Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in two kingdoms of nature: the Invertebrates and the Vertebrates. The volume includes copious…

Illustration from the appendix of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting limbs of a variety of vertebrate animal species, including humans, apes, whales, and birds.

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Figures 17, 18, and 19 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. depicting several stages in the development of jelly-fish. Figure 17 depicts the hydra-like stage. Figure 18 depicts a later-stage of the hydra-like stage.…

Figures 98 and 99 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 98 depicts a centipede. Figure 99 depicts the head of a locust, with view of the chief points in its external anatomy.

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Figure 97 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting a millipede.

Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in two kingdoms of nature: the…

Figures 95 and 96 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 95 depicts a geometrical spider. Figure 96 depicts the nest of a Mygale spider, also commonly known as a Trapdoor Spider.

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Figures 93 and 94 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 93 depicts a daddy-long-legs. Figure 94 depicts spider's thread.

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Figures 90, 91, and 92 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 90 depicts an itch-mite. Figure 91 depicts a Western cattle-tick. Figure 92 depicts a scorpion.

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Figure 89 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting the under surface of a horse-shoe crab.

Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in…

Figures 87 and 88 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 87 depicts a hermit-crab. Figure 88 depicts the zoea, i.e. larval stage, in the development of a crab.

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Figure 86 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting a cray-fish, or river lobster.

Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in two…

Figures 84 and 85 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 84 depicts a pill-bug, also known as a woodlouse. Figure 85 depicts a beach-flea.

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Figures 81, 82, and 83 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 81 depicts a barnacle (magnified) in the nauplius, i.e. first larval stage of development. Figure 82 depicts a trio of acorn barnacles. Figure 83.…

Figures 78, 79, and 80 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 78 depicts a fish-louse, with view of the grapple, neck, and egg masses. Figure 79 depicts a fresh-water shrimp, as it swims in the water. Figure 80…

Figure 76 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting a young lobster, showing the division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen.

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Figures 73, 74, and 75 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 73 depicts the anatomy of a squid, with view the tentacles, siphon, and gills, among other parts. Figure 74 depicts the pen, or backbone of a squid.…

Figure 72 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting a devil fish or poulpe, a species of ray most common in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Figure 71 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting a paper argonaut. Also known as a paper nautilus, the paper argonaut is a type of octopus named in reference to the paper-thin eggcase that females secrete.
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Figure 70 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting a pearly nautilus, also commonly known as a chambered nautilus.

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Figure 69 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting an assortment of shells commonly used as ornaments or decoration.

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Figures 65, 66, 67, and 68 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 65 depicts a slug. Figure 66 depicts a key-hole limpet. Figure 67 depicts an ear-shell. Figure 68 depicts a cowry-shell.

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Figures 62, 63, and 64 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 62 depicts a dorid nudibranch, a type of shell-less marine gastropod mollusk, with view of gills arranged in the shape of a star. Figure 63 depicts…

Figures 60 and 61 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 60 depicts a tooth-shell. Figure 61 depicts a chiton, also known as a sea-cradle or coat-of-mail shell.

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