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:
Natural history.
Anthologie.
Naturwissenschaftler.
Expedicoes Cientificas.
Physical Description:xiv, 499 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.