The book of naturalists : an anthology of the best natural history / by William Beebe.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962 (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 1944.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xiv, 499 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Cave paintings from the Stone Age / Artist: an unknown Magdalenian -- Fishing-frogs, cuckoos, and other things / Aristotle -- Disagreements between elephants and dragons; the birth of pearls / Pliny -- The whale / Abbot Theobaldus of Monte Cassino -- The migration of birds / Frederick II -- The rhinoceros and the mouse / Conrad Gesner -- "Little animals" / Antony van Leeuwenhoek -- Why ants have wings / René ́́Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur -- From bats and manatees to cats and camels / Carl Linnæus -- Concerning birds, bats, and a tortoise / Gilbert White -- The rattle snake / William Bartram -- Jungle river / Alexander von Humboldt -- The sloth / Charles Waterton -- The wild turkey / John James Audubon -- The pond / Henry David Thoreau -- From Bahia and the Galáṕagos to the origin of the species / Charles Darwin -- Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals / Alfred Russel Wallace -- The aims of an expedition / Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz -- On a piece of chalk / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Driver Ants / Thomas Belt -- Patagonian memories / W.H. Hudson -- The water ouzel / John Muir. 
505 0 |a The swarm / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Tribulations of a naturalist and the courtship of the scorpion / Jean Henri Fabre -- Foreward to a book-lover's holidays in the open, and on an east African ranch / Theodore Roosevelt -- About tadpoles / J. Arthur Thomson -- The termitodoxa, or biology and society / William Morton Wheeler -- Penguins / G. Murray Levick -- Old friends in new places / John Burroughs -- Chagola / John Farrer -- Foxes, owls, and polar bears / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Elephant friends and foes / Carl Akeley -- The migration of elephants / Henry Fairfield Osborn -- Mammoths in the flesh / Bassett Digby -- The sea otter / Ernest Thompson Seton -- The tomb of the pearl / Louis Roule -- Two lives / Gustav Eckstein -- The emergence of the half-men / Gerald Heard -- Looking forward / Stephen A. Ionides and Margaret L. Ionides -- The uniqueness of man / Julian S. Huxley -- The big almendro / Frank M. Chapman -- The ties that bind / Caryl P. Haskins -- The seeds of life and the sleep of the seed / Donald Culross Peattie -- Playboys of the western world / Edward A. Armstrong -- In defense of octopuses / Gilbert C. Klingel -- Odyssey of the eel / Rachel L. Carson. 
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