Stories of the Universe: Animal Life

by B. Lindsay

B. L.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	The Story of Animal Life	9
[II.]	How Animals adapt themselves to Circumstances	13
[III.]	Classification: the Sorting of the Animal Kingdom	30
[IV.]	The One-celled Animals, or Protozoa	45
[V.]	The Cœlenterata	53
[VI.]	The Sponges	63
[VII.]	The Vermes or Worms	68
[VIII.]	The Arthropoda: Lobsters, Spiders, and Insects	76
[IX.]	The Mollusca, or Shell-fish	98
[X.]	The Brachiopoda, or Lamp-Shells	117
[XI.]	The Moss-Corals, or Polyzoa	119
[XII.]	The Echinodermata	122
[XIII.]	The Chordata	135
[XIV.]	The Vertebrata	138
[XV.]	Man	167
[XVI.]	How Zoologists do their Work	180
	[Index]	193

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURE		PAGE
[1]	The Scallop-Shell	Frontispiece
[2]	Limpets and Periwinkles	19
[3]	Diagram of Amœba	35
[4]	Section of Hydra	36
[5]	Diagrammatic Section of Earthworm	38
[6]	Diagram of a Gastrula	41
[7]	Diagram of a Trochosphere	42
[8]	Shells of Radiolarians (Polycystina)	47
[9]	A Coralline	58
[10]	Gorgonia	59
[11]	Corals	60
[12]	Marine Worms	73
[13]	A Centipede	77
[14], [15]	Shells of Barnacles	79, 80
[16]	Hermit Crabs	81
[17]	A Land Crab	82
[18]	A Sand-hopper	83
[19]	A Spider	84
[20]	Nest of Trap-door Spider	85
[21]	Galeodes	86
[22]	A Tick	87
[23]	A Scorpion	88
[24]	Larvæ of Insects	90
[25]	Larva of the Bee	92
[26]	Ants	92
[27]	White Ants	93
[28]	Cocoons of Moths	94
[29]	A Moth and its Larva	95
[30]	Nest of a Gregarious Caterpillar	96
[31]	Development of an English Water-beetle (Dytiscus)	96
[32]	Insect Pests	97
[33]	Branchy Murex	102
[34]	Shell of the Common Venus	104
[35]	Eggs of Molluscs	115
[36]	The Five-holed Sand-Cake	125
[37]	A Brittle-Star	129
[38]	A Sea-Cucumber	130
[39]	A Stone-Lily or Encrinite	131
[40]	A Feather-Star	132
[41]	Sections showing Position of the Vertebrate Notochord	139
[42]	Scales of a Sole	143
[43]	Tadpoles	153
[44]	Eggs of Reptiles	155
[45]	Skull of Kangaroo	162
[46]	Skull of Rodent	163
[47]	Slide with Rows of Sections for the Microscope	185

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