Environment and Natural History Publications
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Diary
J. S. Watson
Holograph diary kept by hunter, birder, and amateur naturalist J. S. Watson of Rochester, New York, concerning trips to Florida and Colorado, 1878-1880. The author lists Florida sea and game birds he observed and shot, discusses hunting alligators and fishing, and describes hunting bear and elk in Colorado. 46 pages of the journal are devoted to Watson's trip to Florida's Homosassa River and Cedar Keys with his cousin Charles A. Watson, during which Charles was killed in a boating accident. Watson details the hours he and his companion spent clinging to their capsized boat until Charles, too weak to hold on, slipped off and perished. Watson also describes the difficulties of locating and retrieving Charles's body and his problems with local inhabitants.
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British Poisonous Plants
Charles Johnson
"The occurrence from year to year of cases of accidental poisoning, by substitution of a deleterious for a wholesome vegetable, has led to the idea, that a small work, illustrative of the poisonous plants indigenous to this country, might be useful in rendering the subject one of more general interest than it has previously been; and, by directing attention to the dangerous results of such mistakes, originating in the correspondence of form which some of them present to well-known articles of food or condiment, render such casualties less frequent in future."
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An Essay on Currents at Sea
Joseph Mead
There is reason to apprehend, that the sea is not a fluid in a state of rest, except those motions which are caused by the impulse of winds, and that known by the name of tides…"