item: #1 of 25 id: 12405 author: Castlemon, Harry title: Frank, the Young Naturalist date: None words: 53663 flesch: 83 summary: Now, Master Frank, said Mike, if you will take hold and steady her, I'll wheel her up to the shop for you. Frank was a handsome, high-spirited boy, about sixteen years of age. keywords: archie; boat; boys; brave; charles; close; coon; creek; day; fox; frank; george; good; gun; half; harry; house; james; moment; river; smugglers; thing; time; tree; village; water; way; woods cache: 12405.txt plain text: 12405.txt item: #2 of 25 id: 15997 author: Wallace, Alfred Russel title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 date: None words: 102406 flesch: 70 summary: Did He cause the frame and mental qualities of the dog to vary in order that a breed might be formed of indomitable ferocity, with jaws fitted to pin down the bull for man's brutal sport? [64] _See_ Wallace, _Quarterly Journ. But at the same time, if my theory is true--that while the animals which surrounded him have been undergoing modification in _all_ parts of their bodies to a _generic_ or even _family_ degree of difference, he has been changing almost wholly in the brain and head--then, in geological antiquity the _species_ of man may be as old as many mammalian _families_, and the origin of the _family_ man may date back to a period when some of the orders first originated. keywords: alfred; animals; article; believe; birds; book; case; charles; course; darwin; day; dear; distribution; doubt; facts; female; forms; general; good; health; hooker; hope; insects; interest; islands; kent; kind; letter; life; lyell; man; men; mind; nature; new; note; number; origin; paper; period; plants; point; present; protection; r. wallace; reading; review; science; selection; sir; society; species; sterility; subject; thanks; theory; thought; time; variations; view; wallace; way; wish; work; years cache: 15997.txt plain text: 15997.txt item: #3 of 25 id: 15998 author: Wallace, Alfred Russel title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 date: None words: 93992 flesch: 69 summary: | Leroy's Intelligence and Perfectibility of | | | Animals | 309 | | Theory of Glacial Motion | 329 | Soc., | On the Umbrella Bird | | Lond. keywords: a.r; alfred; barrett; birds; book; broadstone; case; course; darwin; day; dear; distribution; dorset; evolution; facts; form; good; interest; land; large; lecture; life; malay |; man; men; mind; miss; mrs; nature; new; orchard; origin; paper; parkstone; plants; poulton; present; prof; r. wallace; reading; romanes; science; selection; sir; society; species; spencer; study; subject; theory; thought; time; variation; views; wallace; way; work; world; years; zoologist |; | academy; | animals; | annals; | archipelago; | contemp; | ibis; | islands; | journ; | letter; | lond; | note; | proc; | soc; | | cache: 15998.txt plain text: 15998.txt item: #4 of 25 id: 2010 author: Darwin, Charles title: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin date: None words: 22822 flesch: 63 summary: I became also acquainted with several other men older than me, who did not care much about science, but were friends of Henslow. Yet these phenomena are so conspicuous that, as I declared in a paper published many years afterwards in the 'Philosophical Magazine' ('Philosophical Magazine,' 1842.), a house burnt down by fire did not tell its story more plainly than did this valley. keywords: book; cambridge; day; facts; father; good; henslow; life; man; men; mind; plants; pleasure; school; science; society; species; subject; thought; time; voyage; work; years cache: 2010.txt plain text: 2010.txt item: #5 of 25 id: 20556 author: Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) title: Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work date: None words: 132087 flesch: 61 summary: In the appendix to this book (1802) he thus refers to his change of views: I have for a long time thought that _species_ were constant in nature, and that they were constituted by the individuals which belong to each of them. December 26, 1827, Latreille asked to be allowed to employ Boisduval as a _préparateur_; he became the author of several works on injurious insects and Lepidoptera. CHAPTER VI POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE; OPINIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND SOME LATER BIOLOGISTS De Blainville, a worthy successor of Lamarck, in his posthumous book, _Cuvier et Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire_, pays the highest tribute to his predecessor, whose position as the leading naturalist of his time he fully and gratefully acknowledges, saying: Among the men whose lectures I have had the advantage of hearing, I truly recognize only three masters, M. de Lamarck, M. Claude Richard, and M. Pinel (p. 43). keywords: action; animals; animaux; ann; author; beings; birds; bodies; body; buffon; cause; century; changes; chapter; circumstances; classes; climate; condition; course; cuvier; dans; darwin; day; de lamarck; de paris; des; earth; end; environment; et de; evolution; existence; factors; facts; faculties; fluids; form; fossil; france; french; general; geoffroy; globe; habits; having; history; idea; individuals; influence; insects; jardin; lamarck; law; les; life; little; living; long; m. de; mammals; man; means; movements; museum; nature; naturelle; new; number; observations; order; organic; organization; organs; origin; paris; period; place; plants; position; power; present; professor; qui; race; result; rise; science; sea; second; selection; series; shells; simple; species; state; structure; study; subject; sur; surface; system; theory; things; thought; time; use; views; water; way; word; work; years cache: 20556.txt plain text: 20556.txt item: #6 of 25 id: 2087 author: Darwin, Charles title: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 date: None words: 195842 flesch: 70 summary: I can well understand your reluctance to break up your large and happy party and go abroad; but your life is very valuable, so you ought to be very cautious in good time. Of other great literary men, I once met Sydney Smith at Dean Milman's house. keywords: account; america; animals; answer; beagle; book; c. darwin; cambridge; captain; case; chapter; character; charles darwin; country; course; darwin; day; days; deal; dear; doubt; edition; england; facts; father; fitz; following; fox; friend; geology; going; good; half; health; henslow; history; home; hooker; hope; house; interest; islands; j.d; journal; kind; letter; life; london; look; lyell; making; man; manner; men; mind; nature; new; note; origin; page; paper; place; plants; pleasure; point; present; read; reading; respect; return; roy; saw; science; sea; second; short; shrewsbury; sir; sketch; society; south; species; subject; tell; theory; think; thought; time; trouble; varieties; views; volume; voyage; want; water; way; wish; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 2087.txt plain text: 2087.txt item: #7 of 25 id: 2088 author: Darwin, Charles title: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 date: None words: 185974 flesch: 72 summary: When we, at Cambridge, had the satisfaction of receiving Sir J. von Haast into our body as a Doctor of Science (July 1886), I had the opportunity of hearing from him of the vivid pleasure which this, and other letters from my father, gave him. Mr. Huxley writes: Mr. Darwin abhors mere speculation as nature abhors a vacuum. keywords: account; animals; april; article; asa; author; believe; book; c. darwin; case; chapter; charles darwin; copy; day; dear; december; descent; difficulty; doubt; edition; essay; evolution; facts; father; fear; february; feel; fertilisation; flowers; following; forms; general; geological; good; gray; great; hear; history; hooker; hope; huxley; idea; interest; j.d; january; journal; july; kind; letter; life; london; look; lyell; man; manner; march; member; men; mind; natural; nature; new; note; november; number; observations; opinion; origin; page; paper; parts; plants; point; power; present; professor; question; read; reading; remarks; respect; review; science; second; selection; sir; society; species; subject; thank; theory; thought; time; truth; use; variation; views; volume; wallace; way; wish; work; world; writing; years cache: 2088.txt plain text: 2088.txt item: #8 of 25 id: 21356 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Nat the Naturalist: A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas date: None words: 81652 flesch: 83 summary: Nat the Naturalist; or, A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by George Manville Fenn. ________________________________________________________________________ Nat's mother and father have died, and he is being brought up by an aunt and uncle, the latter being his mother's brother. He was a very amiable, mild-tempered man, who had never had any children, in fact he did not marry till quite late in life; when I remember my poor father saying that it was my aunt married my uncle, for uncle would never have had the courage to ask her. keywords: aunt; birds; black; boat; boy; day; ebo; find; fire; fish; going; good; gun; half; hands; head; laughing; little; look; looking; nat; place; right; saw; sea; shot; sir; specimens; thought; time; tree; uncle; uncle dick; uncle joe; uncle joseph; water; way; work cache: 21356.txt plain text: 21356.txt item: #9 of 25 id: 2317 author: Jefferies, Richard title: The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography date: None words: 32447 flesch: 77 summary: Therefore the thin cheek is entirely human--the sum of human life made visible in one face--labour, and endurance, and mind, and all in vain. This is the vortex and whirlpool, the centre of human life today on the earth. keywords: air; beauty; body; day; desire; earth; existence; face; grass; green; human; idea; labour; life; light; mind; moment; prayer; sea; sky; soul; sun; things; thought; time; years cache: 2317.txt plain text: 2317.txt item: #10 of 25 id: 23497 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Through Forest and Stream: The Quest of the Quetzal date: None words: 33294 flesch: 90 summary: Everything is ready, uncle, I said. It ought to be stopped, uncle, I said. keywords: birds; boat; boy; carpenter; cross; dick; fire; good; gun; look; master; nat; pete; right; river; sir; time; uncle; uncle dick; water; way; yes cache: 23497.txt plain text: 23497.txt item: #11 of 25 id: 2739 author: Darwin, Charles title: More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters date: None words: 198293 flesch: 73 summary: This they at once obtain by acquiring a resemblance to other species which, from whatever cause, enjoy a comparative immunity from persecution. But supposing for an instant, in this and other such cases, that the record of the first appearance and disappearance of the species was perfect, we have no reason to believe that forms successively produced necessarily endure for corresponding lengths of time. keywords: account; america; animals; answer; april; arctic; article; australia; birds; book; british; case; change; chapter; charles; conditions; country; course; darwin; day; december; difficulty; discussion; distribution; doubt; edition; etc; evidence; facts; february; flora; following; forms; genera; genus; glacial; good; gray; half; hear; history; hooker; hope; huxley; insects; interest; islands; j.d; january; journal; july; kind; letter; life; london; look; lyell; man; march; means; men; mind; natural; nature; new; note; november; number; opinion; origin; owen; page; paper; parts; passage; period; plants; point; present; question; read; reading; reference; relation; remarks; respect; review; science; sea; second; seeds; selection; sir; society; south; species; state; sterility; subject; thank; theory; thought; time; understand; use; variation; varieties; views; volume; wallace; want; water; way; wish; work; world; years cache: 2739.txt plain text: 2739.txt item: #12 of 25 id: 2740 author: Darwin, Charles title: More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters date: None words: 213177 flesch: 74 summary: This was no doubt the point most disturbing to Mr. Darwin, since it led Lord Kelvin to ask (as quoted by Huxley), Are modern geologists prepared to say that all life was killed off the earth 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 years ago? The ocelli on the wing feathers were favourite objects of Mr. Darwin, and sometimes formed the subject of the little lectures which on rare occasions he would give to a visitor interested in Natural History. keywords: -and; -in; -mentioned; -of; -on; account; action; address; agassiz; america; animals; association; birds; book; british; case; certain; charles; colour; common; course; crossing; darwin; day; descent; difference; difficulty; distribution; doubt; edition; effect; elevation; evidence; experiments; expression; facts; feet; female; fertilisation; find; flora; flowers; following; forms; genera; geological; geology; glacial; glaciers; glen; good; gray; half; head; history; hooker; hope; huxley; ice; iii; insects; interest; islands; j.d; journal; kind; leaves; letter; life; london; look; lord; lyell; man; manner; march; mind; movement; muller; nature; near; new; note; november; number; observations; opinion; orchids; origin; page; paper; parallel; parts; period; plants; point; pollen; position; power; present; prof; professor; read; remarks; respect; review; right; rocks; roy; royal; science; scott; sea; seeds; selection; self; sir; soc; society; south; species; stamens; state; stigma; structure; subject; surface; thank; theory; thought; time; use; variation; views; volcanic; volume; wallace; want; water; way; wish; work; worth; writing; years cache: 2740.txt plain text: 2740.txt item: #13 of 25 id: 36304 author: Godman, John D. (John Davidson) title: Rambles of a Naturalist date: None words: 29382 flesch: 59 summary: To say nothing of the danger from falling trees, the peril of being struck by the lightning, which so frequently shivers the loftiest of them, is so great as to render any attempt to advance at such time highly imprudent. This I have often observed--that when a quarrel or fight took place in a large flock or gang of crows (a circumstance by no means infrequent), it seemed soon to extend to the whole; and during the continuance of their anger all the usual caution of their nature appeared to be forgotten, allowing themselves at such times to be approached closely; and, regardless of men, fire-arms, or the fall of their companions, continuing their wrangling with rancorous obstinacy. keywords: animal; attention; body; crabs; creatures; crows; day; death; distance; field; fish; food; godman; grass; hope; john; life; light; nature; number; observation; pine; place; shell; sun; time; trees; water; way; young cache: 36304.txt plain text: 36304.txt item: #14 of 25 id: 38629 author: Darwin, Charles title: Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters date: None words: 151098 flesch: 70 summary: Mr. Huxley allows me to quote from a letter an account of the happy chance that threw into his hands the opportunity of writing it:-- The _Origin_ was sent to Mr. Lucas, one of the staff of the _Times_ writers at that day, in what I suppose was the ordinary course of business. Darwin _v._ keywords: account; animals; beagle; book; cambridge; case; chapter; charles; darwin; day; days; dear; doubt; edition; evolution; facts; father; fertilisation; flowers; following; friend; gave; general; geological; geology; good; gray; half; health; hear; henslow; history; hooker; hope; house; huxley; interest; journal; kind; letter; life; london; look; lyell; man; manner; men; mind; nature; new; note; number; observations; old; opinion; origin; paper; place; plants; pleasure; point; present; professor; publication; read; review; science; second; selection; sir; sketch; society; species; subject; theory; thought; time; views; voyage; wallace; way; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 38629.txt plain text: 38629.txt item: #15 of 25 id: 39975 author: Audubon, John James title: Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 192136 flesch: 77 summary: Edinburgh contains a Walter Scott, a Wilson, a Jameson, but it contains also many nettles of the genus Mammalia, amongst which _men_ hold a very prominent station. Thus, my Lucy, have I described Cuvier almost as if a _new species of man_. keywords: afternoon; america; audubon; bank; bell; best; birds; black; board; boat; book; breakfast; captain; city; cold; company; country; course; dark; day; days; dinner; drawings; edinburgh; eggs; england; evening; eyes; family; father; feet; fine; fish; france; french; friend; gentleman; god; good; great; green; ground; half; hall; hand; harris; head; high; hills; home; hours; house; indians; island; john; july; kind; labrador; lady; left; letter; life; like; lizars; london; long; lucy; man; men; miles; minutes; missouri; moment; morning; morrow; mrs; nature; nest; new; night; number; o'clock; october; past; place; pleasure; poor; present; professor; rathbone; red; return; river; room; rose; saw; sea; shore; shot; sir; size; society; species; thought; time; trees; vessel; walk; water; way; weather; white; wife; wild; wind; wood; work; years; york; young cache: 39975.txt plain text: 39975.txt item: #16 of 25 id: 39979 author: Audubon, John James title: Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 200884 flesch: 78 summary: ----, House, i. 471, 475, 477, 496, 504; ii. Amer. i., 1883, pp. keywords: account; animal; appearance; audubon; banks; bear; bed; bell; birds; black; board; boat; breakfast; buffalo; buffaloes; bull; camp; captain; close; country; course; culbertson; cut; day; days; dead; deep; deer; distance; dogs; eggs; end; evening; eyes; family; feet; fine; fire; fish; fort; game; good; great; ground; gun; half; harris; head; hills; home; horses; hour; house; hunters; i. 471; indians; john; kentucky; kind; land; lay; left; length; line; little; looking; man; manner; meat; men; miles; minutes; missouri; moment; morning; mouth; nature; new; night; number; owen; party; place; poor; prairie; provost; reader; red; rest; return; river; room; rose; run; saw; season; set; shore; shot; species; spot; sprague; squires; stream; sun; thought; time; trees; water; way; weather; white; wife; wild; wind; winter; wolf; wolves; woods; yards; years; young cache: 39979.txt plain text: 39979.txt item: #17 of 25 id: 42559 author: Mills, Enos A. title: The Story of Scotch date: None words: 8516 flesch: 84 summary: I carried little Scotch all day long in my overcoat pocket as I rode through the mountains on the way to my cabin. I took him in my hands and assured him that the visitor was welcome, and in a moment little Scotch and the cowboy were side by side gazing at the fire. keywords: cabin; cold; feet; fire; long; night; scotch; snow; time; way; wind cache: 42559.txt plain text: 42559.txt item: #18 of 25 id: 46482 author: Ingersoll, Ernest title: The Mentor: American Naturalists, Vol. 7, Num. 9, Serial No. 181, June 15, 1919 date: None words: 11403 flesch: 67 summary: The literary magazines now began to print articles of open-air observation, most of which, then as now, dealt with bird life. Besides illustrating many books about birds and animals and writing the text, he has contributed numerous articles to leading magazines, and has delivered more than three thousand lectures on natural history subjects. keywords: agassiz; american; audubon; birds; books; burroughs; history; illustration; john; life; man; mentor; muir; naturalist; nature; new; thoreau; time; walden; wild; woods; work; years; york cache: 46482.txt plain text: 46482.txt item: #19 of 25 id: 5084 author: Huxley, Thomas Henry title: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 date: None words: 136216 flesch: 66 summary: The more I know intimately of the lives of other men (to say nothing of my own), the more obvious it is to me that the wicked does NOT flourish nor is the righteous punished. I shall be right glad to find good men and true anywhere, and I will take your bail for any man. keywords: account; april; association; book; british; care; case; chapter; college; course; darwin; day; days; deal; dear; england; fact; feel; following; forbes; friend; general; going; good; government; half; having; head; help; history; home; hooker; hope; huxley; january; jermyn; kind; knowledge; leave; lectures; left; letter; life; like; london; look; man; matter; means; meeting; men; mind; months; nature; new; owen; paper; people; place; point; position; present; professor; public; question; read; rest; right; royal; school; science; set; sir; society; species; street; subject; t.h; theory; things; thought; time; tyndall; views; want; way; wife; wish; work; working; world; write; years; young cache: 5084.txt plain text: 5084.txt item: #20 of 25 id: 51426 author: Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) title: Henry D. Thoreau date: None words: 69860 flesch: 69 summary: It has made its way where your name has rarely been heard before, and the inquiry, 'Who is Mr. Thoreau?' proves that the book has in part done its work. I met him more than once in March, 1855, but he did not call on my sister and me until the 11th of April, when I made the following brief note of his appearance:-- To-night we had a call from Mr. Thoreau, who came at eight and stayed till ten. keywords: alcott; american; book; boston; brother; brown; channing; chapter; character; college; concord; day; days; dear; death; dunbar; emerson; england; family; farm; father; friend; god; good; greeley; hand; hawthorne; henry; henry thoreau; high; home; hosmer; house; john; john thoreau; lecture; letter; life; love; maine; man; march; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; new; place; poet; ripley; river; school; thoreau; thought; thy; time; town; verses; village; walden; way; webster; week; william; woods; world; years; young cache: 51426.txt plain text: 51426.txt item: #21 of 25 id: 5226 author: Huxley, Thomas Henry title: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 date: None words: 135096 flesch: 69 summary: So he had to deliver it in extenso to the reporter, who took it down in shorthand, promising to let him have a longhand copy in good time the next morning. [He reached England in good time for the beginning of his autumn lectures, and his ordinary busy life absorbed him again. keywords: account; address; animals; april; article; board; book; business; case; chapter; country; course; darwin; day; days; deal; dear; december; education; end; english; essays; evolution; fact; father; following; foster; friend; good; half; hand; health; home; hope; house; huxley; interest; january; july; june; kind; knowledge; lectures; letter; life; london; look; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; morning; mrs; nature; new; november; people; physiology; place; point; present; president; professor; professor huxley; public; question; report; rest; right; royal; school; science; september; set; sir; society; south; state; subject; t.h; thanks; things; thought; time; tyndall; view; want; way; week; wife; wish; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 5226.txt plain text: 5226.txt item: #22 of 25 id: 5799 author: Huxley, Thomas Henry title: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 date: None words: 142526 flesch: 72 summary: Your observations are quite accurate and clearly described--and to be accurate in observation and clear in description is the first step towards good scientific work. Mr. Huxley and Mr. Knowles arrived here (Aldworth) on a visit. keywords: --at; --his; --on; --the; account; address; article; association; book; british; business; case; century; club; college; controversy; course; darwin; day; days; dear; december; dinner; eastbourne; education; essays; evolution; fact; february; following; foster; friend; general; good; great; half; history; hodeslea; home; hon; hooker; hope; house; huxley; institution; january; john; journal; june; kind; knowledge; law; lecture; left; letter; life; london; look; lord; love; man; march; matter; medal; meeting; memoirs; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; nineteenth; november; october; opinion; origin; oxford; people; place; point; present; proceedings; professor; public; quarterly; question; review; right; romanes; royal; school; science; second; sense; sir; society; state; subject; t.h; teaching; thanks; things; thought; time; university; visit; volume; way; wife; work; world; writing; years cache: 5799.txt plain text: 5799.txt item: #23 of 25 id: 6561 author: Barrus, Clara title: Our Friend John Burroughs date: None words: 66735 flesch: 74 summary: But Mr. Burroughs has not had to wait till the daisies cover him to be appreciated. As a man, and as a writer, Mr. Burroughs has been in the public eye for many years. keywords: air; author; bird; books; boy; boys; burroughs; country; day; days; emerson; essay; farm; father; fields; find; good; great; hand; heart; hills; home; house; interest; john; john burroughs; know; let; life; little; look; love; man; men; mind; morning; mother; muir; nature; near; new; place; road; school; slabsides; spring; summer; things; thought; time; way; whitman; wild; woods; work; world; writer; writing; years; young; youth cache: 6561.txt plain text: 6561.txt item: #24 of 25 id: 7280 author: Burroughs, John title: My Boyhood date: None words: 48437 flesch: 82 summary: And it being my first time away from home Father wrote more frequently, and he dropped the formality of his earlier letters. In the beginning, at least, Father wrote these sketches of his boyhood and early farm life as a matter of self-defense: I had made a determined attempt to write them and when I did this I was treading on what was to him more or less sacred ground, for as he once said in a letter to me, You will be homesick; I know just how I felt when I left home forty-three years ago. keywords: big; black; boy; boys; burroughs; day; days; end; family; farm; father; feet; fields; good; half; hand; hiram; home; house; ice; letter; life; look; man; men; morning; mother; nature; near; new; night; people; place; road; saw; school; sheep; snow; spring; stone; summer; things; time; tree; water; way; wild; winter; woods; work; world; years cache: 7280.txt plain text: 7280.txt item: #25 of 25 id: 7404 author: Burroughs, John title: John James Audubon date: None words: 23573 flesch: 72 summary: After a few minutes had elapsed, he begged Captain Hall to ring a bell; a servant came and was asked to bid Miss Scott come to see Mr. Audubon. A visit from Basil Hall, with Mr. Audubon, the ornithologist, who has followed the pursuit by many a long wandering in the American forests. keywords: america; audubon; birds; business; days; drawings; edinburgh; family; father; great; house; john; life; london; louisville; man; men; nature; new; philadelphia; room; scott; sir; son; time; wife; wilson; work; years; york cache: 7404.txt plain text: 7404.txt