INDEX 



Hare, northern, 63. 



Heron, great blue {Ardeakerodicts), 



relation of coloration and habits 



of, 90. 

 High-hole, or flicker {Colaptee 



auratits luteus), 182. 

 Hobhouse, L. T., his "Mind and 



Evolution," 160-162. 

 Homing instinct, the, 126, 127. 

 Hornaday, William T., 177. 

 Hornet, black, 162. 

 Hornets, 197. 

 Huxley, Thomas Henry, 159, 163, 



190; and Carlyle, 215, 218, 224, 



237; a fighter. 250, 265; quoted, 



207, 208, 249. 



Ichneumon-fly, 185. 



Immortality, 251. 



Infinite, the, 238-240. 



Instinct, and reason, 177, 178; a 

 kind of intelligence, 179; au- 

 tomatism of, 179-188; the re- 

 sponse to, 189; the sufficiency 

 of, 196, 198. 



June, the opening of, 26-32. 



Keller, Helen. 11. 



Lemming, 64, 186, 187. 



Life, first appearance of, 208; the 

 origin of, 229-236; the mechan- 

 ico-chemical theory of, 232-234; 

 positive and negative sides of, 

 268, 269; a balance between 

 good and evil forces, 269. 



life (of man), meaning of, 241-261. 



Lily, fawn. See Erythronium, 



Long, William J., 198. 



lioon (Gavia imber), 118. 



Lost persons, tendency to turn in 

 one direction, 20. 



Love, sharpens thq seaaes, 2; the 

 measure of life, 3. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, 218. 



Maeterlinck, Maurice, 175. 



Man, ancestry of, 215-224, 226- 

 229, 236, 237; at home in the 

 universe, 221; relationship with 

 the -anthropoid apes, 222-224; 

 a part of nature, 267; more and 



more at home in the world, 279; 

 280; development of the moral 

 nature of, 281, 282. 



Meadowlark (JStumeUa magna) i 

 notes of, 35. 



Mind, in matter, 212, 213. 



Morality, truth in, 252, 



Morgan, C. Lloyd, quoted on rea- 

 son in animals, 178. 



Morgan, L. H., 194. 



Moth, expanding wings of a, 16, 

 16; a yellowish-white, 17. 



Moth, Cecropia, cocoon of, 19. 



Moth, Promethea, cocoon of, 18. 



Muir, John, 149. 



Mushrooms, colors of, 67. 



Natural history, truth and false- 

 hood in, 101-115, 122, 123. 



Nature, an inexhaustible store- 

 house, 3; demorahzed by man, 

 69; tendency to harmony in, 

 79, 80; truth and falsehood in 

 writing about, 101-115, 122, 

 123; the school of, 197; a spend- 

 thrift, 246; wins in every game, 

 246, 247. 



Nature fakers, 101-115, 122, 123. 



Newman, Cardinal, 265, 266. 



Nuthatch, white-bellied (Sitta caro~ 

 linenais), colors and habits of, 86, 

 87. 



Observation, considered as an art; 

 1, 2; love the secret of, 2, 3; dif- 

 ference between people in powers 

 of, 4^10; training of powers of, 

 11,12; sharpened by the thou^t, 

 21-23; power of accmrate, pos- 

 sessed by few, 116, 118. 



Observer, a close, 7-9. 



Orchards, blossoming, 31, 32. 



Oriole, puncturing grapes, 21. 



Oriole, Baltimore (Jcterua gaXbula); 

 compared with orchard oriole, 

 85; two pairs fighting, 191. 



Oriole, orchard (JcteTvs sjrwHus)-^ 

 compared with Baltimore oriole, 

 85, 86. 



Otter, 160. 161. 



Peacock; 54. 



Petrifaction and putrefaction, 3. 



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