INDEX 



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story of Mayflower's encounter 



with, 76. 

 their extraordinary adaptations, 



71-73- 

 Toothed, 71. 



Wheeler, Professor W. M., his 

 studies of American Amazon 

 ants, 18, 277. 



White, Gilbert, quoted, 34, 184. 



Whitman, Walt, his "World below 



the Brine," quoted, 94. 

 quoted, on the bustle of growing 

 wheat, 104. 



Willey, Professor Arthur, on con- 

 vergence in evolution, 256, 

 260-261, 290. 



Wilson, Professor E. B., on 

 Siamese-twin embryos, 160. 



Wilson, Professr James, on 

 Mendelism, 235-237. 



Wilson, the late Dr. Edward A., 

 his work, 10. 



" Wireless " messages of imagina- 

 tion, 109. 



Winter, birch trees in, 129. 



on the slopes of the Cairngorms, 



127, 129, 132. 

 pond-life in, 132. 

 silence of, 127. 

 stores to tide over, 131. 

 time of rejuvenescence, 128. 

 vital activity and its breaking- 

 point in, 130. 

 ways in which living creatures 



meet stress of, 130-131 

 Wonders of instinct, 206-212. 

 Wordsworth, 41, 311. 

 Worms, Anguillulid, 179. 



self-mutilation of, when captured, 



168-169. 

 Wright, Sir Almroth, 305. 



Zoo, story of lady and the penguins 



at, 9. 

 story of Yankee visitor at, with 



regard to the giraffe, 73. 

 Zostera, sea-grass, 89, 90, 91. 



