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Little Masterpieces of Science:, by Various
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Title: Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer
Author: Various
Editor: George Iles
Release Date: August 20, 2009 [EBook #29739]
Language: English
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LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE
[Illustration: Charles R. Darwin.]
Little Masterpieces of Science
Edited by George Iles
THE NATURALIST AS INTERPRETER AND SEER
By
Charles Darwin Alfred R. Wallace Thomas H. Huxley Leland O. Howard George Iles
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1902
Copyright, 1902, by Doubleday, Page & Co.
Copyright, 1877, by D. Appleton & Co.
Copyright, 1901, by John Wanamaker
Copyright, 1895, by G. H. Buek & Co.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Obvious printer's errors have been silently corrected. Hyphenated and accented words have been standardized. See the end of this file for more information.
PREFACE
To gather stones and fallen boughs is soon to ask, what may be done with them, can they be piled