Amateur nature study has moved a long way. This is a book which sets up great men as examples, and then tells its young readers how they may follow in their footsteps. Here we have a number of biographies of great naturalists, with added sections on continuing the study of the particular aspect of nature in which they made discoveries.
Includes Charles Linnaeus, Gilbert White, William Smith, Audubon, Fabre, Charles Waterton, Philip Gosse and Charles Darwin.

Ex library with all the usual stamps and markings. Some stains on end page and DW where sticky tape has been removed. Foxing on page ends.