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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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a Six Hundred Forty-eight Full-page Color Plates Containing Accurate Photographic Illustrations in Natural Colorsof Over Fifteen Hundred Nature Specimens VOL. IV —MINERALS AND PLANTS AMERICAN AUDUBON ASSOCIATIONCHICAGO Copyright, 1914By Nathaniel Moore Banta CONTENTS MINERALS CHAPTER PAGE I How THE Earth Was Formed 9 II Grand Canyon, Geysers, Etc IT III Formation of Minerals and Gems 23 IV Ores, Marbles, Etc 25 V Precious Stones 37 PLANTS I Flowers 59 II Spices, Etc 109 III Medicinal Plants 125 IV Forests 141 V Fruits, Nuts, Etc 149 VI Mushrooms 185 VII Miscellaneous Plants 199 Minerals ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The publishers wish to express their acknowledgment and appre-ciation of the courtesy of the following parties for the use of certainmaterial in this volume: To Mr. A. W. Mumford for the articlesfrom Birds and Nature; all unsigned articles from this source aremarked with an asterisk. To Mr. John C. Mount joy for permissionto use the articles from the writings of Prof. Harold B. Shinn.
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CHAPTER I HOW THE EARTH WAS FORMED Just how the earth was formed at the outset is not certainlyknown. The most common view of men of science is that itwas once in the form of a fiery gas. It is supposed thatall the planets and satellites that now revolve around the sunwere once a part of a common mass of gas in the form ofa vast sphere which was very large and very hot. Thisgradually lost its heat and shrank as most bodies do whenthey cool. If it was not already whirhng round at theoutset it must have come to do so as it shrank, and as moreand more of its heat was lost it rotated more and rapidly.At length it came to whirl so fast that the outer part,which was moving fastest, could no longer be held downto the surface, and so it separated in the form of a ringaround the equator of the great sphere. The main mass kept on cooling and shi-inking andwhirling faster and faster, and hence other rings sepa-rated. Each of these rings also kept on cooling andshrinking and is supposed to have p

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