x INSTANCES OF THE WONDER OF LIFE 



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the pistol crab as a tailor ...... 36 



self-advertisement among animals . . . ' . 36 



the chamseleon's ruse ....... 39 



the soap-bubbles of cuckoo spit . . . . .41 



experiments in bipedal progression ..... 43 



a jet of blood from the horned toad's eyes ... 47 



the fire-fly's courtship , * .,- *. .... 49 



the male Rhinoderma with eggs in his croaking-sacs . . 50 

 paternal care in hornbills .- . . . . .51 



beetle-pets kept by ants . . . , .,; .,->. . . . 52 



the shifts for a living on the sea -shore ..... 62 



sea slugs secreting dilute oil of vitriol .... 62 



a fight between starfish and sea-urchin . . . . 63 



cannibalism in a molluscan cradle . 65 



paternal care among shore animals . " . '."',. . 70 



the male stickleback's nest '''. . 1 . . . 70 



the male lumpsucker's care of the eggs . . . . 70 



the multiplication of palolo -worms . . . . . 71 



how Ctenophores escape the storms . . . . . 74 



open -sea insects . . , ' . ' . ' . . . 76 



transparent animals . ' . . . . . . 78 



animal life in the great 'deeps' . . . . 83, 87 



a strange, dark, cold, calm, silent, monotonous world . 87 



trawling at a depth of over three miles . . . ' . 87 

 the ceaseless rain of small organisms from the surface to 



the abysses .... . , . . 88 



the absence of microbes in the deep sea . . . .88 



long stalks and long limbs in deep-sea animals . ' . 90 

 abyssal fishes ' tumbling upwards ' . . . .91 



an extraordinary blind cuttlefish from the abysses . . 92 



bright colours in a world of darkness , . . . 94 



iridescence seen on lakes . . . . . . . 102 



three million Rotifers to the square yard . . . . 104 



the linkage between mussels and minnows , V . ' . 106 



the linkage between bitterlings and mussels , ' . . 106 



water-fleas surviving desiccation for nine years . . . 107 



a leech surviving two days' imprisonment in ice . . 109 

 organisms of the dwarf-plankton which pass through the 



finest silk gauze. . . , . . 110 



the circulation of matter: how the world goes round. . 110 



