INSTANCES OF THE WONDER OF 

 LIFE 



In Illustration of the Wonder of Life, the book tells of 



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millions of insects on a glacier .... 7 



the bustle of life on the heather .... 8 



a cataract of birds and a great draught of fishes . 9 

 the floating meadows of the open sea ... 10 



the animal census . . . . . . .11 



twenty flowering plants on a patch of turf . . 11 



the vultures gathering to the carcass . . . .14 



a spider's web ........ 14 



a fish that spits at insects . . . . .15 



a spider binding a grasshopper hand and foot . . 15 

 the skua forcing herring gulls to disgorge their fish . 16 

 the land -leeches falling from the branches . . .16 

 a mosquito milking an ant ..... 16 



a python's extraordinary meals . . . . .17 



a fish swallowing a fish larger than itself . . .17 

 frigate-birds exploiting boobies ..... 20 



birds of prey thinning bats ..... 22 



cannibal Rotifers 23 



sea -cucumber entangling lobster. .... 25 



a fish that fishes 25 



butterflies with protective repulsive odours . . 25 



the garment of invisibility in flat-fishes ... 30 

 the chamseleon's colour-change ..... 30 



the leaf -butterfly effacing itself 31 



the two kinds of mimicry . . . . 32, 33 



young mantises like ants ...... 34 



a crab masking itself with a sponge . . . .35 



a lobster masked with seaweed ..... 36 



