Zim, Herbert Spencer

An illustrated handbook of common fishes of North America, examining the characteristics, range, and description of twenty-two groups including herring-like fish, butterfly fishes and angelfishes, jacks, and sharks and rays.

A guide to 458 species of animals and plants found along the seashore includes algae, flowering plants, worms, sponges, starfish, anthropods, shellfish, and birds.

Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

A guide to mammals of North America that includes a description of each species, a detailed drawing of the animal, and a map locating his common range.

Discusses the lives and habits of all types of cats.

A general introduction to the monkey families of the old and new worlds, their behavior in the wild, and the special attention they need in captivity.

Explains how to tell toads from frogs, how these amphibians make their mating call, their reproduction and development, and other aspects of their habits and behavior.

Covers some famous diamonds, diamond fields, the hardness of the stones, refraction, cutting a gem, industrial diamonds, and synthetic diamonds.

Explains aspects of thunderstorms: rising, heated air; electrical charges in the air; lightning and its power, types and effects; and thunder.