Zim, Herbert Spencer

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

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.

Discusses the physical facts, customs, and attitudes surrounding human life and death.

A guide to North American insects which gives popular name, describes life and reproduction cycles and feeding habits, and includes a range guide.

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

Describes the many dinosaurs, the age in which these enormous creatures thrived, and the conditions that reduced them to displays of brittle bones in today's museums.

A brief introduction to the elephant who eats more than one hundred pounds of hay daily, drinks over two hundred quarts of water, but finds it necessary to breathe only five to ten times a minute.

A brief introduction to alligators and crocodiles, less dangerous than supposed, living fossils from the Age of Reptiles.

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.