Guide to the study of animal ecology

by Charles C. Adams

1911. A Universal Law. Science, N. S., Vol. XXX, pp. 159-179.

The law of adjustment or response to strain. A very important paper viewed from the dynamic and process standpoint.

Henderson, L. J.

1913. The Fitness of the Environment. An Enquiry into the Biological Significance of the Properties of Matter, pp. 317. New York. The Macmillan Company.

Valuable ecologically because of its exposition of the orderly sequence and regulatory character of physico-chemical and physiological processes, and the application of chemical equilibria and the Phase Rule to metabolic changes. He says, “Now there can be no doubt that, when feasible, the ideal method—from the physico-chemical point of view—to describe a material system is in terms of the phase rule.” p. 260.

Chamberlin, T. C., and Salisbury, R. D.

1904. Geology. Geologic Processes and their Results, Vol. I. pp. 654. New York.

To be considered from the standpoint of the agents and processes which change animal habitats and result in their “orderly sequence.”

Van Hise, C. R.

1904. A Treatise on Metamorphism. U. S. Geol. Survey, Monog., Vol. XLVII, pp. 1-1286.