Elementary Science by Grades Book Four: A Nature Study and Science Reader (1929)
Persing, Ellis C., Wildman, Edward E. · D. Appleton and Company · leaf 66
48 ELEMENTARY SCIENCE BY GRADES … Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. TURTLES LIKE TO SUN THEMSELVES ON LOGS IN THE WATER. Like most other turtles, it has a hard shell which often grows to six or eight inches in length. What is the purpose of this hard shell % If you frighten it vou soon find out. Head, legs, and…
Science · Ants · Wasps · Turtles · Crayfish · Trees · Mushrooms · Birds · Beavers · Muskrat · Bears · Milky Way · Balloons · Water · Windmills · Kites
Internet Archive · National Library of Education · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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