+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | YOUNG FOLKS' | | | | LIBRARY | | | | | | SELECTIONS FROM THE CHOICEST LITERATURE OF ALL LANDS: | | FOLK-LORE, FAIRY TALES, FABLES, LEGENDS, NATURAL | | HISTORY, WONDERS OF EARTH, SEA AND SKY, | | ANIMAL STORIES, SEA TALES, BRAVE DEEDS, | | EXPLORATIONS, STORIES OF SCHOOL AND | | COLLEGE LIFE, BIOGRAPHY, | | HISTORY, PATRIOTIC | | ELOQUENCE, POETRY | | | | | | THIRD EDITION | | | | REVISED IN CONFERENCE BY | | | | THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, | | PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEWETT TUCKER, | | HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, HENRY | | VAN DYKE, NATHAN HASKELL DOLE | | | | | | _TWENTY VOLUMES_ _RICHLY ILLUSTRATED_ | | | | BOSTON | | HALL AND LOCKE COMPANY | | PUBLISHERS | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
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THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, Editor-in-chief, Author, poet, former editor _Atlantic Monthly_, Boston, Mass.
The HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR, United States Senator, Worcester, Mass.
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HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LL.D., Author, literarian, associate editor _The Outlook_, New York.
ERNEST THOMPSON-SETON, Artist, author, New York.
JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, Author, poet, and editor, Arlington, Mass.
The REVEREND CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, Archdeacon, author, Philadelphia.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, Humorous writer, Atlanta, Ga.
MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD, Historical novelist, Chicago.
LAURA E. RICHARDS, Author, Gardiner, Me.
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Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Book of Natural History
- 2: President Leland Stanford Junior University
- 3: With Poetical Foreword by EDITH M
- 4: A Book of Natural History
- 5: And fishesbydavid starr jordan
- 6: And the kneading process continued with some fresh water
- 7: Which is called animal albumin
- 8: And these bodies are called proteids
- 9: A minute quantity of ammoniacal salts
- 10: And in the tadpole state breathes by gills
- 11: It calls for more frogs and toads
- 12: To commence with the best known man like Apes
- 13: States that the Gibbons are true mountaineers
- 14: Burrough states of another Gibbon
- 15: The Gibbons appear to be naturally very gentle
- 16: Illustration HEAD OF ORANG UTAN
- 17: To resemble a man more than an ape
- 18: Of the form called Mias Pappan
- 19: And the widest zygomatic aperture
- 20: Illustration HEAD OF CHIMPANZEE
- 21: The canines are early developed
- 22: Their local name for the Chimpanzee is Enche eko
- 23: The arms being longer than the Chimpanzee
- 24: But now he boldly approaches the Mpongwe plantations
- 25: The mother cod lays its millions
- 26: The common English stickleback
- 27: Female stickleback laying eggs in nest
- 28: Male stickleback watching eggs in nest
- 29: Solenostoma is a native of the Indian Ocean
- 30: Where the mother's pouch becomes a sort of nursery
- 31: For the tadpole is practically in all essentials a fish
- 32: And there makes alligators of them
- 33: Copyright by William Stanley Blatchley
- 34: Illustration HEDGEHOG CATERPILLAR
- 35: Illustration CHRYSALIS OF TOMATO WORM
- 36: The common field cricket belongs also to the Orthoptera
- 37: The thirteen spotted lady beetle
- 38: While the carnivorous prey upon the herbivorous
- 39: This hibernation is not a perfect one
- 40: Excepting the American goldfinch
- 41: The woodpeckers all build in about the same manner
- 42: Illustration THE YELLOW BELLIED WOODPECKER
- 43: She secludes herself from the male
- 44: Especially the creepers and nut hatches
- 45: Illustration BALTIMORE ORIOLE AND NEST
- 46: Illustration INDIGO BIRD'S NEST
- 47: The grossbeak being nearly as large again as the indigo bird
- 48: Illustration NEST OF RED EYED VIREO
- 49: Is unquestionably that of the Baltimore oriole
- 50: Having obtained the confidence of her faithless paramour
- 51: The rarest of all nests is that of the eagle
- 52: The eagle in all cases uses one nest
- 53: Hence they gradually withdraw from the region
- 54: Some kinds live almost exclusively upon insects
- 55: Feeding extensively upon insects like locusts
- 56: The Sharp shinned and Cooper's Hawks
- 57: Taking the Woodpeckers as a family
- 58: The Blue Jay is found over the entire state
- 59: Illustration RED WINGED BLACKBIRD
- 60: Both the Cedar Bird and Bohemian Waxwing
- 61: And the lower mandible half buried in the water
- 62: Illustration This day I shot a condor
- 63: The Chilenos destroy and catch numbers
- 64: The movement of the neck and body of the condor
- 65: Or rather a hemi ellipsoidal dome
- 66: Generally catching flying insects
- 67: For bees have an absolute mania for cleanliness
- 68: This bee then chooses the place of the first cell
- 69: And each honeycomb is formed of two strata of these tubes
- 70: The round ones became hexagonal
- 71: Then I replaced the disc of comb
- 72: But they were all perfectly hexagonal
- 73: Wasps from the naturalist in nicaragua
- 74: Banded brown and yellow Polistes carnifex
- 75: Urnaria Cresson and gracilis Cresson
- 76: And unearthed it from its burrow
- 77: The caterpillar in its struggles
- 78: And no malaxation was practised
- 79: That these formicariums are generally found
- 80: Some of the ants make mistakes
- 81: Illustration The number of spiders
- 82: Azara says the eggs are deposited
- 83: Carrying the oval body before it
- 84: This latter was a little white grub
- 85: The seizure of the chrysalides
- 86: When a colony of termites is disturbed
- 87: In a termite colony there is but one king and queen
- 88: That the horse ant Formica rufa
- 89: Polyergus is thoroughly dependent on slaves
- 90: The Sanguineas are both bold and wary
- 91: The subject of the general intelligence of ants
- 92: And of the physical conditions of primitive volition
- 93: I have more than once seen a guanaco
- 94: The guanacos have one singular habit
- 95: Bats produce their young alive
- 96: And the most important of them soldered together
- 97: Supported by the action of these great leathery wings
- 98: Or Noctule Scotophilus noctula
- 99: Next morning the Bat was killed
- 100: As these true Vampires are called
- 101: The Fruit Bats pass some hours in profound sleep
- 102: They discharge their excrements
- 103: And the Long eared Bat are among the latter
- 104: The Bats must be especially sharp sighted
- 105: The Greater and the Lesser Horseshoe Bats
- 106: But our Ophiophagus preferred to fast
- 107: Grasping tightly with his venomous jaws
- 108: Coal cinders had been strewed over another field
- 109: Peaty sand with quartz pebbles
- 110: But on examining the nodules with a lens
- 111: And weeds grew thickly between them
- 112: Covered by 5 or 6 feet of loess
- 113: Transverse section across a large stone
- 114: Some of the outer Druidical stones are now prostrate
- 115: Which was penetrated by seven burrows
- 116: He has received the surname darter
- 117: Illustration LONG EARED SUNFISH
- 118: Like a flash six of the sunfish are after it
- 119: But afterwards I found out that it was this cuttle fish
- 120: Illustration Old Rattler was a snake
- 121: This was the chance for Glittershield
- 122: No one can tell how deep the lava is
- 123: When a crust is formed over the lava
- 124: Illustration AND IN EACH CANON WAS A WATERFALL
- 125: John Colter was a hunter in this expedition
- 126: Some ancient Queen of the Blobs
- 127: Is the case with the hen kingfisher
- 128: Perfect insects have very dissimilar larvae
- 129: The Sitaris larva springs upon it
- 130: In which caterpillars have both
- 131: Many caterpillars are black and hairy
- 132: The Lappets are protected by being hairy
- 133: They go through their first moult
- 134: Which frequents the convolvulus
- 135: The caterpillar of Chaerocampa porcellus
- 136: And represents the second stage of the Euphorbia Hawk moth
- 137: The caterpillars are very often brown
- 138: Out of eighty eight spiny and hairy species
- 139: A good illustration is found in the genus Uloborus
- 140: CAEROSTRIS MITRALIS from Vinson
- 141: ERIAUCHENUS WORKMANNI from Cambridge
- 142: ORNITHOSCATOIDES DECIPIENS from Cambridge
- 143: In the Epeiridae some are like thaddeus
- 144: The spider held on to one of the cocoons
- 145: This proposition is well illustrated by the Gasteracanthidae
- 146: The object of mimetic tendencies is disguise
- 147: An undescribed species of Cyrtarachne mimics a snail shell
- 148: Instances of spiders mimicking ants are very numerous
- 149: The spider deceives its enemies
- 150: Illustration One morning Sir Bevis went down to the brook
- 151: The kingfisher is always with me somewhere
- 152: And he followed the grasshopper
- 153: The goldfinch has the prettiest dress
- 154: Illustration THE LOON FROM WALDEN
- 155: Having looked in vain over the pond for a loon
- 156: Some Benedictine monk from Tavistock Abbey
- 157: As they gambolled round their mothers
- 158: Yet here the small long legged but powerful Tarpans
- 159: And let us visit the territories of Utah and Wyoming
- 160: Then the splint again disappeared
- 161: American naturalist and geologist
- 162: ABBOTT First Lessons in Zooelogy ELIZABETH C