362 The Study of Animal Life app. 



Another natural way of beginning is to work out some subject 

 which attracts you. It becomes a centre round which a crystal 

 grows. Muybridge's photographic demonstrations of animal loco- 

 motion have interested us in the flight of birds, let us follow this 

 up by observation and by reading, e.g., Ruskin's Love's Meinie 

 (1881); Pettigrew's Animal Locomotion (Internat. Sci. Series, 

 1873); Marey's Animal Mechanism (Internat. Sci. Series, 1874); 

 Marey's Le Vol des Oiseaux (Paris, 1890). 



The colours of animals appeal to many people. Read E. B. 

 Poulton's volume (1890) in the Internat. Sci. Series, and Grant 

 Allen's Colour Sense, and F. E. Beddard's Animal Colouration 

 (Lond., 1892). 



The relations between plants and animals are entrancingly 

 interesting. Watch the bees and other insects in their flight, 

 and read Darwin's volumes on the Fertilisation of Orchids (1862) 

 and on Cross-Fertilisation (187 6); Hermann Miiller's Fertilisation 

 of Flowers (transl. by Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, Lond., 1883); 

 Kerner's Flowers and their Unbidden Guests ; the articles on 

 "Insectivorous Plants," in Encyclop. Britannica, and in Chambers's 

 Encyclop., or Darwin's work (1875). 



Again, many of us are directly interested in foreign countries. 

 Let the practical interest broaden, it naturally becomes geographical 

 and physiographical, and extends to the natural history of the 

 region. No more pleasant and sane way of learning about the 

 ways and distribution of animals could be suggested than that 

 which follows as a gradual extension of physiographical knowledge. 

 See Dr. H. R. Mill's Realm of Nature, and the following samples 

 from the long list of books by exploring naturalists : — 



A. Agassiz, Three Cruises of the "Blake" (Boston and New York, 



1888). 

 S. W. Baker, Wild Beasts and Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, 



Asia, Africa, and America (London, 1890). 

 H. W. Bates, Naturalist on the Amazons (5th ed. , London, 



1884). 

 T. Belt, Naturalist in Nicaragua (2nd ed. , London, 1888). 

 W. T. Blanford, Observations on Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia 



(Lond., 1870). 

 P. B. Du Chaillu, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, 



(Lond., 1861) ; Ashango Land (1867). 

 R. O. Cunningham, Notes on the Natural History of the Straits of 



Magellan (Edin., 1871). 

 Darwin, Voyage of the "Beagle" (1844, new ed. 1890). 

 H. Drummond, Tropical Africa (Lond. , 1888). 



H. O. Forbes, A Naturalist 's Wanderings in the Eastern Archi- 

 pelago (Lond., 1885). 

 Guillemard, Cruise of the " Marchesa" (Lond., 1886). 



