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• Nature study -- Early works to 1800
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• Nature observation
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• Nature -- Study and teaching

• Nature Guiding (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub. Co., 1926), by William Gould Vinal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature Near London, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Nature Study and Life (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1902), by Clifton F. Hodge, contrib. by G. Stanley Hall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Nature Study With Common Things: An Elementary Laboratory Manual (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1904), by Marion Hamilton Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pageant of Summer, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• The Fairyland Around Us (Los Angeles: The author, 1918), by Opal Stanley Whiteley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Reflections on the Study of Nature, Translated from the Latin of the Celebrated Linnaeus (London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1785), by Carl von Linné, trans. by James Edward Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Guide to Nature (partial serial archives)
• Forest and Stream (full serial archives)

• The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Ernest Thompson Seton (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Face of the Fields (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), by Dallas Lore Sharp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Fall of the Year (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1911), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by R. Bruce Horsfall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Field-Farings: A Vagrant Chronicle of Earth and Sky (New York, : Harper and Bros., 1892), by Martha McCulloch-Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fresh Fields (c1912), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Hills and the Vale (London: Duckworth and Co., 1909), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Edward Thomas (Gutenberg text)
• The Lay of the Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by Elizabeth Myers Snagg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of the Fields, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1911), by Winthrop Packard (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Locusts and Wild Honey, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Locusts and Wild Honey (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1907), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1906), by William Beebe, illust. by Walter King Stone (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Lone Swallows (London et al.: W. Collins Sons and Co., c1922), by Henry Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• More About Wild Nature (second edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893), by Mrs. Brightwen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Music of the Wild: With Reproductions of the Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1910), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Music of the Wild: With Reproductions of The Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Natural History of the Farm: A Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub. Co., 1916), by James G. Needham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Next to the Ground: Chronicles of a Countryside (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902), by Martha McCulloch-Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.orgr
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Notes From Nature's Garden (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906), by Frances Anne Bardswell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Plymouth Trails, by Winthrop Packard (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Open Air, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Out of Doors: A Selection of Original Articles on Practical Natural History (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), by J. G. Wood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pepacton, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• The Prairie and the Sea (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1905), by William A. Quayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea-Side Walks of a Naturalist With His Children (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1870), by W. Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spring of the Year (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by R. Bruce Horsfall (Gutenberg text)
• Summer (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1914), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by R. Bruce Horsfall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Trees and Elsewhere, by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)
• Wake-Robin, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• A Watcher in the Woods (New York: The Century Co., 1903), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by R. Bruce Horsfall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wild Pastures (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1909), by Winthrop Packard, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Wildwood Ways (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1909), by Winthrop Packard (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Winter (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by R. Bruce Horsfall
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Winter Sunshine, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Winter Sunshine (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1904), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Woodland Paths (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1910), by Winthrop Packard, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Living Year (some illustrations may be omitted; New York: Washburn, c1950), by Richard Headstrom, illust. by Anne Marie Jauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Nature Near London, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Nature's Messages: A Book of Wilderness Wisdom, by Sam Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Country Home: How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1908), by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out-Door Papers, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• Rural Hours (illustrated edition; New York: George P. Putnam, 1851), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rural Hours (revised abridged edition, without illustrations; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1887), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pilgrims of the Wild (c1935), by Grey Owl, contrib. by Hugh S. Eayrs (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Life on the Rockies (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, c1909), by Enos A. Mills (multiple formats at archive.org)

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