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their antiquity Fossil plants The carboniferous system Reproduc- 

 tion of ferns Alternation of generations Fronds and leaves Tree- 

 ferns The Carpet moth again Assembling Nature's evensong Twi- 

 light and night pp. 77-114 



HILLSIDE 



A July morning Pastoral scene Hops Rochester Castle Windmills- 

 North Downs The river Medway Cutting through the hills River 

 gravels Extinct animals Mud flats Britain joined to the Continent- 

 Wayside flowers Sexual dimorphism in butterflies Rooks Useful and 

 injurious insects Woodside Flowers of a chalk bank Hawking for 

 butterflies Natural selection Protective resemblance A chalk pit 

 Deserted nests Spring reminiscences A hop garden Umbelliferae 

 Structure of parsley flower Cross-fertilization 'Bee-keeping The 

 work of the hive Workers and drones Making a Queen Royal jelly- 

 Relation of colours of flowers to visits of bees The whitethroat's nest 

 Number of insects eaten Potato blight Its growth and reproduction- 

 Poachers Standing a drink Burnet moths A goldcrest's nest De- 

 velopment of silver spots on wings of Fritillary butterfly The cornflower 

 Snaring rabbits Caught The mole Variation and habits Helix 

 nemoralis How the shell is enlarged Human selection Natural selec- 

 tion Pigeons and rabbits Melanism in insects The Great Mother 

 The Grasshopper Mimicry of grasshopper by moth Metamorphosis 

 of grasshopper The earwig The Grayling butterfly Response to 

 environment Ants and their homes Swarms of ants Intelligence of 

 ants Instinct and intelligence Instinct in young cuckoo, spider, moth 

 Homing Intelligence of wasp, spider Performing fleas Reasoning 



C'er in chaffinch Intelligence of dogs Ants and aphides Slaves 

 xual reproduction of aphides Battles of ants How ants talk The 

 cell-making of bees How bees communicate with each other Chalk 

 Foraminifera Fossils and their formation Rural happiness A won- 

 derful singer The lizard Ignorance and injury The fly and bee 

 orchids The shamrock Which plant is it ? Sunset The nightingale 

 Evening sounds Homeward thoughts pp. 115-182 



MARSH 



Cliffe Marshes Marsh birds in summer Winter visitors Cement factories 

 Alluvial deposits Antiquity of man Classification of stratified rocks 

 according to age Succession of life in time The Stone Age The 

 Bronze Age The Iron Age Post Tertiary deposits Extinct animals- 

 Bone caves Father Thames and its work Sediment and matter in 

 solution The kingfisher The heron at work The water dropwort 

 The yellow flag or Fleur de Lys The stickleback and its nestn-Dragon- 

 flies and their metamorphoses The Eyed Hawk moth Structure of a 

 caterpillar Defensive attitude The Sphinx Change in colour The 

 Puss moth Squirting acid Alarming appearance Flagella Willows 

 Attractive nectar Sairey Gamp An entomologist at work Crossing 

 ditches Others' misfortunes My misfortunes How not to cross a 

 ditch Bladder wrack A chaff bed Pulex irritans Capabilities of fleas 

 The toad Metamorphosis of the toad Breathing in Amphibia, 

 Fishes, Mammals, Insecta, etc. Oxygen carriers Witchcraft The 

 housekeeping of a Wainscot moth The Ghost moth The Otter The 

 Stag-beetle The Roman Cossus The Goat moth Wood borers The 

 Wood Leopard moth Nature's Goodnight pp. 183-231 



