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Sketches of Animal Life and Habits
February 13, 1879 issue

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The article focuses on two volumes of books by Andrew Wilson, "Sketches of Animal Life and Habits," and "Leisure-Time Studies." The author lays no claim to originality, but aims to "afford to general readers, and especially the young, some popular and yet trustworthy ideas regarding some of the most interesting groups of the animal world." The "Leisure-Time Studies" are mostly discussions of important biological questions, although three of them, "Some Animal Architects," "A Summer's Day," and "What I Saw in an Ant's Nest," would have found more appropriate places in the smaller volume just noticed.

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ANIMALS in literature; SKETCHES of Animal Life & Habits (Book); LEISURE-Time Studies (Book); WILSON, Andrew; LEISURE; BIOLOGICAL literature
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