Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. From the Editors xiii
5. A Foundation Built by Giants 1
6. Inspiration
7. Introduction 7
8. The Great Horned Owl (1927) 15
9. Just Tigers (1944) 24
10. Looking Back (1944) 26
11. Foreword to The salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae (1926) 28
12. The Wisdom of Instinct (1918) 32
13. The Wolf Spiders (1954) 41
14. Contour Diving (1934) 50
15. The Winter Journey (1930) 54
16. Wombats (1963) 64
17. Journey to the Sea (1941) 70
18. Notes on the Natural History of Some Marine Animals (1938) 79
19. Exploration
20. Introduction 91
21. Inaccessible Island and Nightingale Island (1879) 99
22. The Islands Galapagos (1697) 113
23. The Sea Otter and the Sea Cow (1741– 1742) 120
24. Chapters from the Life- Histories of Texas Reptiles and Amphibians (1926) 129
25. Account of the Electrical Eels, and the Method of catching them in South America by means of Wild Horses (1820) 138
26. Comments on the Cephalopods Found in the Stomach of a Sperm Whale (1913 / 1914) 144
27. On collecting at Cape Royds (1910) 148
28. A Submarine Gully in Wembury Bay, South Devon (1934) 158
29. A Briefe and True Report of the Newfoundland of Virginia (1588) 172
30. Initiation
31. Introduction 184
32. Home range and mobility of brush rabbits in California chaparral (1954) 195
33. Food recognition and predation on opistobranchs by Navanax inermis (1963) 213
34. Variation and adaptation in the imported fire ant (1951) 226
35. Storm mortality in a Winter Starling roost (1939) 242
36. The dispersal of insects to Spitsbergen (1925) 247
37. A tenderfoot explorer in New Guinea (1932) 256
38. On the occurrence of Trichocorixa kirkaldy (Corixidae, Hemiptera- Heteroptera) in salt water and its zoo- geo- graphical significance (1931) 268
39. Ecological compatibility of bird species on islands (1966) 270
40. Bivalves: spatial and size- frequency distributions of two intertidal species (1968) 284
41. Intuition
42. Introduction 290
43. The Structure and Habits of Birds (1244– 1250) 307
44. Of the Spider (1800) 316
45. Observations Relating to the History of Bees (1758) 324
46. History of a mussel bed: Observations on a phase of faunal disequilibrium (1935) 333
47. On a provisional hypothesis of saltatory evolution (1877) 351
48. On the Natural History of the Aru Islands (1857) 353
49. Evolutionary criteria in Thallophytes: A radical alternative (1968) 365
50. Observations and Experiments upon the Freshwater Polypus (1742) 371
51. On the causes of zoning of brown seaweeds on the seashore (1909) 376
52. On the causes of zoning of brown seaweeds on the seashore. II. The effect of periodic exposure on the expulsion of gametes and on the germination of the oospore (1910) 380
53. The chalk grasslands of Hampshire- Sussex border: The effects of rabbits (1925) 393
54. The biosphere and the noösphere (1945) 401
55. Unification
56. Introduction 413
57. The Natural History of Selborne (1813) 421
58. Maupertuis, Pioneer of Genetics and Evolution (1959) 424
59. On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects (1862) 439
60. Lepidoptera: Heliconidæ (1861) 457
61. Vertebrata: Aves: Drepanidae (1903) 473
62. Geography and evolution in the pocket gopher (1927) 486
63. Coevolution of mutualism between ants and acacias in Central America (1966) 497
64. Contributors 533