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.

Two Fops Among the Fishes

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

Two Fops Among the Fishes

N old spring-house on the hillside.

Two Fops Among the Fishes: Long-Eared

II. THE LONG-EARED SUNFISH. - Among the most brightly colored of all the freshwater members of the finny tribe is the long-eared sunfish…

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