APPENDIX 817 



Elton, C. S.: Moles. Mice and Lenimini^.s. Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press, 

 1942. An important ecological study, especially of populations. Advanced and 

 inclusive. 



Hamilton, W. J., Jr.: The Mammals of Eastern United States: An Account of Recent 

 Land Mammals Occurring East of the Mississippi. Ithaca, N. Y., Comstock Pub- 

 lishing Co., 1943. Concise and interesting. Many firsthand observations. 



Hartman, Carl G.: Possums. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1952. The develop- 

 ment, habits, history and folklore of the opossums of the south with many illus- 

 trations. 



Hooton, Ernest A.: Up from the Ape, 3rd ed. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1946. 



Howell, A. B.: Aquatic Mammals. Springfield. 111., Charles C Thomas, 1930. 



Leigh, W. R.: Frontiers of Enchcmtment. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1938. An 

 artist's account of the African country in which he painted scenes for Akeiey Hall. 

 See Figure 37.16. 



Melville, H.: Moby Dick. New York, The Modern Library, 1926. First ed. in 1851. 

 The story of Moby Dick. A great whale is the symbol of adventure and courage. 

 An allegory, a tale, and now a classic. 



MocHi, Ugo and T. Donald Carter: Hoofed Mammals of the World. New York, Charles 

 Scribner's Sons, 1953. The accurate and beautiful results of a pioneer technique in 

 illustration. See Figure 37.15. 



Osborn, Henry Fairfield: Men of the Old Stone Age, 3rd ed. New York, Charles 

 Scribner's Sons, 1918. 



Robertson, R. B.: Of Whales and Men. New York, A. A. Knopf, Inc., 1954. An account 

 of whaling as it goes on today, the sea, the ships, the whales and whalers. It tells 

 of the human mind and its culture unalarmed against the might of water, cold and 

 animals. 



Romer, a. S.: Man and the Vertebrates, 3rd ed. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 

 1941. 



Seton, E. T.: Lives of Game Animals, 4 vols. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 

 1929. Abundant illustrations by the artist author. A wealth of lively description 

 and personal observation. 



Simpson, G. G.: The Principles of Classification and a Classification of the Mammals. 

 New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1945. Bulletin 85 of the 

 museum. 



Young, J. Z.: The Life of Vertebrates. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1950. The book is what 

 its title says it is, the life of vertebrates. Excellent. 



Kellogg, R.: "The History of Whales. Their Adaptation to Life in the Water," Quarterly 

 Review of Biology, 3:29-76 and 3:174-208 ( 1928). Their sight and hearing. 



38. Organic Evolution — Conservation 



Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or, the 

 Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London, John Murray 

 (Numerous editions, the first one, 1859). 



Graham, E. H.: Natural Principles of Land Use. New York, Oxford University Press, 



1944. Short, finely illustrated survey of applied ecology. 

 Howells, William W.: Mankind So Far. New York, Doubleday & Co., 1952. 



Irvine, W.; Apes, Angels, and Victorians. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954. The 

 story of Darwin, Huxley, and evolution. 



Kellogg, C. E.: The Soils That Support Us. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1941. A 

 layman's book, by a scientist who knows the soil and how to bring its fascination 

 before the reader. 



Leopold, Aldo: A Sand Coimty Almanac. New York, Oxford University Press, 1949. 

 "There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. These 

 essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot." Widely known as an 

 authority in the fields of ecology, conservation and forestry Leopold wrote with the 

 integrity and flavor of the lines here quoted. 



