A Book of Natural History

Huxley, Darwin, Wallace, Burroughs and Maeterlinck, writing for young readers — thirty-odd essays by the great naturalists on everything from the man-like apes to what worms do.

Some Strange Nurseries

6 pages in this part of A Book of Natural History.

Some Strange Nurseries

Y ناس a OU could hardly find better rough test of relative development in the animal (or vegetable) world than the number of young produced…

Some Strange Nurseries: English

Our commonest English lizard, for example, which frequents moors and sandhills, does not lay or deposit its eggs at all, but hatches them…

Some Strange Nurseries: Nest

The first care of the male stickleback, when he has acquired his courting suit, is to build a suitable home for his future wives and…

Some Strange Nurseries: Pouch

The common English pipe-fish is a good example of the other and much more usual case in which the father alone is actuated by a proper…

Some Strange Nurseries: Frogs

Frogs are very closely allied to fish: indeed, one may almost say that every frog begins life as a fish, limbless, gill-bearing, and…

Some Strange Nurseries: Surinam

The Surinam toad, represented in No. 8, is also the possessor of one of the strangest nurseries known to science. It lives in the dense…

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