The story of the universe. Volume 3 (of 4) (Registro nro. 118547)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Singleton, Esther, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1865-1930 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The story of the universe. Volume 3 (of 4) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-02-01 |
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| Creation/production credits note | John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The story of the universe. Volume 3 (of 4)" by Esther Singleton is an illustrated popular-science anthology written in the early 20th century. Devoted to The Earth’s Garment: Flora, it gathers accessible essays by scientists and authors to explain how plants are built, evolve, are classified, and spread across the globe, highlighting their forms, functions, and relationships with climate, animals, and people.<br/><br/>The opening of the volume moves from fundamentals to broad panoramas. David Robertson introduces botany’s accessibility and then crisply explains roots, leaves, and flowers, detailing pollen, stigmas, and the roles of wind and insects in fertilization, along with monoecious/dioecious arrangements and adaptations that discourage selfing. Sir J. William Dawson surveys early Mesozoic plant life amid post-Carboniferous upheavals, emphasizing cycads, conifers (notably ginkgo and Sequoia), the uniform global spread of these groups, hints of early monocots, and the generally dark pine–cycad forests that left modest coal deposits. Edward Clodd outlines living plant life-forms by dividing cryptogams and phanerogams, then traces reproduction, the rise of flowers, and how nectar, color, scent, and structure coevolved with insects to drive cross-fertilization and seed dispersal. He even sketches how light and pigment explain floral colors. Louis Figuier then opens a tour of plant geography, describing Europe’s northern, middle, and Mediterranean regions with vivid notes (including Martius’s Arctic observations), before extending to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, pairing climates with signature species; the excerpt closes amid his account of the Llanos of Venezuela. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
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| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1905 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Natural history |
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| Uncontrolled term | Astronomy |
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| Uncontrolled term | Earth (Planet) |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77827">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77827</a> |
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