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Excerpt from A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands A Flora is a botanical account of the plants of a country or district, with the orders or families systematically arranged under the classes. The genera under the orders, and the species (when there are more than one) under the genus to which they belong. Of late years there has been a great awakening in the study of the ¿owering plants of this Provinc...

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This contains information about our court system, jail system and process and the prison system and process. It also contains information about the how's and know how's on what and who to deal with in certain situations of going to court and being locked up in a jail or prison or other intitutions. Everything has been broke down for an average person can understand and use this material if needed for them self or for someone they know.

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Excerpt from Echoes From the Glen in Divers Keys I am sending this little volume out, more than partly at the solicitations of my friends. That does not appear a very modest and honorable salutation for my readers. Nevertheless it is true, and I trust those kind friends may help to bear the misfortunes and failures which may befall its pathway. The "Echoes in Divers Keys" have been written from boyhood up: through the time of battles into th...

Excerpt from The American ArmyThe manuscript of this volume was begun before the outbreak of the present war in Europe, with a view to setting forth the conditions and methods of administration of the American army, and the urgent need of nationalizing and organizing our military resources while there is no war-cloud on our horizon. During all the earlier years of the Republic, the limitless faith in the ocean barriers guarding our coasts prev...

My Family in America since 1620 reaches back to the early years of the European presence in North America to tell how William Brewster, one of the leading Pilgrims on the Mayflower, came to America in 1620. For the author, this is not simply American history, it is his family's story, as he is a descendant of William Brewster on his mother's side of the family. Echoing the work of another ancestor, Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, who was known for...

My Family in America since 1620 reaches back to the early years of the European presence in North America to tell how William Brewster, one of the leading Pilgrims on the Mayflower, came to America in 1620. For the author, this is not simply American history, it is his family's story, as he is a descendant of William Brewster on his mother's side of the family. Echoing the work of another ancestor, Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, who was known for...

Excerpt from Notes on the Lectures of John Guitéras on General and Special Pathology: Delivered Before the Second and Third Year Students of the University of Pennsylvania, And on the Lectures of Joseph McFarland on Bacteriology, Delivered Before the Third Year Class Pathology is that branch of the science of medicine which concerns itself with the study of the manifestations of energy and the changes in structure which take place in a diseas...

Excerpt from Horses, Saddles and BridlesThe first edition was published in 1895. At that time the ces sation of Indian hostilities and consequent absence of active field duties had begun to change the old and familiar conditions of army service.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from Giles Carter of Virginia: Genealogical Memoir When I look back at my initial efforts to unravel the tangled skein and recall the groping and ¿oun dering, I am amazed that I ever had the courage to go forward. I had entered the military service at an early age, at the close Of the great Civil War in which the family, like many others in the border states Of the Confederacy, had divided and cast its fortunes on opposing sides in th...

Excerpt from The Life of Lieutenant General Chaffee General Chaffee was one of two million young men and boys who during the fratricidal con¿ict volun teered with only one thought - to save the Union. The vast majority of them have gone to their tombs, and the Grim Reaper, from whom none escapes, is rapidly gathering the survivors to their last bivouac. The world goes on, and the kaleidoscopic course Of modern events seems to leave no time fo...

Excerpt from The Gates of Janus: An Epic Story of the World War In sending out this: "Epic Story of the World War, " the writer feels there are some things which need explanation, lest the work be thought presumptuous, on the part of a comparatively unknown author. First: The author has felt that the Epic form of poetry, so long unused, is most admirably fitted for the narration of such a War as this, - greater than any in all the worlds ann...

Excerpt from The Tale of a Devil Dog Beginning with the days of peace, prior to the Great World War, we attempt to describe the life of a Marine "rookie" in "boot camp" and the process of training that results in the making of a man. Then, in a cruise to the Tropics to where news of America's entry into the World War is flashed to the fleet, we lead on to the days of practice and action, cover concisely every offensive and defensive the Marin...

Excerpt from From Yorktown to Santiago With the Sixth U. S. Cavalry The regiment will always hold in high esteem the artists - Remington, de Thulstmp, Zogbaum, Gaul, Klepper and Christy - who have generously aided in making this volume a worthy memento of long years of service under the flag of the Republic. The author desires to express his personal appreciation of the kindly assistance rendered by these gentlemen and to make due acknowledg...