SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING

Wonder Stories of Science

D.N. BEACH

Wonders in Monsterland

EDWARD W.D. CUMING

Ocean Wonders

W.E. DAMON

Among the Stars

AGNES GIBERNE

The Scenery of the Heavens

JOHN ELLARD GORR

Coal and the Coal Miners

HOMER GREENE

Wonders of the Moon

A. GUILLEMIN

The Sea and Its Living Wonders.

G. HARTWIG

The Wonders of Plant Life Under the Microscope

SOPHIE B. HERRICK

Marvels of Animal Life

CHARLES F. HOLDER

Old Ocean

ERNEST INGERSOLL

Modern Seven Wonders of the World

C. KENT

Madam How and Lady Why

CHARLES KINGSLEY

Wonders of Optics

F. MARION

The Wonders of Science

HENRY MAYHEW

Wonders of Man and Nature

E. MENAULT

A Century of Electricity

T.C. MENDENHALL

The Orbs of Heaven

ORMSBY S. MITCHELL

Under Foot

LAURA D. NICHOLS

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

R.A. PROCTOR

The Wonders of the World

CHARLES G. ROSENBERG

The Wonders of Nature

PROFESSOR RUDOLPH

Volcanoes of North America

ISRAEL COOK RUSSELL

Aspects of the Earth

N.S. SHALER

Wonders of the Bird World

R.B. SHARPE

The Wonders of Water

GASTON TISSANDIER

Total Eclipses of the Sun

MABEL L. TODD

Wonders of Insect Life

JOSEPH C. WILLET


Footnote 1: [(return)]

Copyright, 1884, by N.S. Shaler.

Footnote 2: [(return)]

During the cruise of H.M.S. Bull-dog, commanded by Sir Leopold M'Clintock, in 1860, living star-fish were brought up, clinging to the lowest part of the sounding-line, from a depth of 1260 fathoms, midway between Cape Farewell, in Greenland, and the Rockall banks. Dr. Wallich ascertained that the sea-bottom at this point consisted of the ordinary Globigerina ooze, and that the stomachs of the star-fishes were full of Globigerinæ. This discovery removes all objections to the existence of living Globigerinæ at great depths, which are based upon the supposed difficulty of maintaining animal life under such conditions; and it throws the burden of proof upon those who object to the supposition that the Globigerinæ live and die where they are found.

Footnote 3: [(return)]

I have recently traced out the development of the "coccoliths" from a diameter of 1/7000th of an inch up to their largest size (which is about 1/1600th), and no longer doubt that they are produced by independent organisms, which, like the Globigerinæ, live and die at the bottom of the sea.

Footnote 4: [(return)]

The slice given in Fig. 2 is from a broader-leaved form, U. lactuca, because this species, being composed of only one layer of cells, is better seen. Ulva Linza is composed of two layers of cells.