x INSTANCES OF THE WONDER OF LIFE 



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the pistol crab as a tailor 36 



self-advertisement among animals 36 



the chamaeleon'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 hi 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 ...... 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 . ' . . 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 pilk gauze. . . ; . . . . 110 



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



