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the immortality of the Protozoa ..... 440 



rarity of microbic death among wild animals . . . 441 



the general occurrence of violent death in Nature . . 441 



alternation of generations in hydroids .... 444 



life-history of a jelly-fish ...... 445 



remarkable larvae of Echinoderms ..... 446 



story of horse-hair worms ...... 447 



life -history of barnacles ....... 448 



life-history of the shore-crab ...... 451 



life-histories of May-flies, gnats, moths .... 452 



a glimpse of a Parthenopeia ...... 457 



the degeneration of Ascidians ...... 458 



the story of the salmon . ...... 459 



the development of the frog ...... 460 



different forms of life-curve ...... 464 



the story of niners . ....... 464 



the efficiency of the living creature as an engine . . 473 



the insignia of life ........ 474 



an amoeba's pursuit of its prey ..... 477 



paste-eels surviving desiccation for fourteen years . . 483 



seeds germinating after eighty-seven years . . . 483 

 white blood corpuscles remaining alive outside of the body for 



four and a half months ...... 486 



the puzzling phenomena of luminescence .... 487 



the physiology and psychology of sleep .... 494 



the remarkable phenomenon of anaphylaxis . . . 501 



the chemical individuality of the organism . . . 507 



the specificity of the blood ...... 509 



the living creature as a bundle of adaptations . . . 510 



the adaptations of the mole 518 



Venus's Fly-Trap and its 'memory' .... 520 



snow shoes of the Ruffed Grouse ..... 521 



an extraordinary egg-carrying adaptation in a male fish . 522 



an egg-eating snake, Dasypeltis ..... 523 



Aristotle's lantern ........ 524 



eyes that shine at night ....... 525 



adaptations before birth ....... 527 



the remarkable eyes of Anableps ..... 528 



warm-bloodedness in birds and mammals .... 530 



the ptarmigan's heart, adapted to the mountains . . 532 



