In the hope of doing something toward furnishing a series where
the nature-lover can surely find a readable book of high
authority, the publishers of the American Science Series have
begun the publication of the American Nature Series. It is the
intention that in its own way, the new series shall stand on a
par with its famous predecessor.
The primary object of the new series is to answer questions
which the contemplation of Nature is constantly arousing in the
mind of the unscientific intelligent person. But a collateral
object will be to give some intelligent notion of the "causes of
things."
While the cooeperation of foreign scholars will not be declined,
the books will be under the guarantee of American experts, and
generally from the American point of view; and where material
crowds space, preference will be given to American facts over
others of not more than equal interest.
The series will be in six divisions: