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Excerpt from Botany or the Modern Study of Plants In our daily life we have no difficulty in distinguishing plants from animals, and we are also seldom in doubt as to the difference between a life-containing and an inorganic thing. It is true, of course, that at the extreme limits of the series, among the very simplest forms, it is sometimes difficult to separate plants and animals, but in most cases there can be no doubt as to which of the t...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum (Natural History): The Cretaceous Flora, Part II. Lower Greensand (Aptian) Plants of Britain The second part of the Catalogue of the Cretaceous Flora deals with the remains of plants from the English Lower Greensand, and shows the importance of a careful study of even the most unpromising fossils. Most of the specimens described are merely fragments of wood, but their microsc...

Excerpt from A Journal From Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist This daily journal was written primarily because I well knew that time would force the swiftly passing incidents and impressions to blur each other in my memory. Then want Of leisure tempted me to send the journal home to friends in place of letters, and the two or three for whom I originally intended it widened the circle by handing it on to many others, until i...

Excerpt from Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the Past Vegetation of the Earth, and of the Recent Important, Discoveries Made in This Realm, of Nature Study The number and the importance of the discoveries which have been made in the course of the last five or six years in the realm of Fossil Botany have largely altered the aspect of the subject and greatly widened its horizon. Until comparatively recent times the rather narrow outloo...

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Originally published in 1918. An early book on contraception, its theory, history and practice. Much of the advice on birth regulation contained here is still very practical and useful today. Illustrated. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using ...

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Marie Carmichael Stopes, Sc. D., Ph. D. (1880- 1958) was a Scottish author, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning. Stopes edited the journal Birth Control News which gave anatomically explicit advice, and in addition to her enthusiasm for protests at places of worship this provoked protest from both the Church of England and the Catholic Church. Her sex manual Married Love, or, Love in Marriage (...