INDEX 



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story of Mayflowers encounter 



with, 76. 

 their extraordinary adaptations, 



71-73- 

 Toothed, 71. 



Wheeler, Professor W. M., his 

 studies of American Amazon 

 ants, 1 8, 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, Professor James, on 

 Mendelism, 235-237. 



Wilson, the late Dr. Edward A., 

 his work, 10. 



" Wireless " messages of imagina- 

 tion, 209. 



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. 



