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Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amoeba to the Insects (Classic Reprint)
Life and Her Children Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amoeba to the Insects - Classic Reprint Author:Arabella Buckley PREFACE. — TllE plan of this work is so fully explained in the Introductory Chapter that but little preface is needed. Its main object is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits of the lower forms of life; and to do this in a more systematic way than is usual in ordinary works on Natural History, and more simply than in text-books ... more »on Zoology.
For this reason 1 have adopted the title "" Life and her Children,"" to express the family bond uniting all living things, as we use the term ""Nature and her Works,"" to embrace all organic and inorganic phenomena ; and I have been more careful to sketch in bold outline the leading features of each division, than to dwell upon the minor differences by which it is separated into groups,
I have made use of British examples in illustration wherever it was possible, and small specimens of most
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; PAGB; Life and her Childreni; CHAPTER II; Lipe's Simplest Children, how they Live, and Move,; and Build14; CHAPTER III How Sponges Live33; CHAPTER IV The Lasso-Throwers of the Ponds and Oceans 50; CHAPTER V How Starfish Walk and Sea-Urchins Grow 77; CHAPTER VI; The Mantle-covered Animals, and how they Livb; with hkads and without them io3; CHAPTER VII; The Outcasts, of Animal Life, and the Elastic-Ringed; Animals by Sea and by Land 135; viii CONTENTS; CHAPTER VIII; PAGE; The Mailed Warriors of the sea, with Ringed Bodies; and Jointed Feet 153; CHAPTER IX The Snare-Weavers and their Hunting Relations 178; CHAPTER X; Insect Suckers and Biters which change thkir Coats; but not their Bodi'es 201; CHAPTER XI; Insect Sippers and Gnawers which remodel their Bodies within their Coats ; CHAPTER XII; Intelligent Insects with Helpless Children, as illustrated by the Ants ; 233; 269; ILLUSTRATIONS; Plate I Life in the Deep Sea___i Sea-Lily, Pen/acrintu; asferia i Sponge, Euplectdla asptrgilhtm, 3 Coral, Lopho-helia pro« less