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Read Ebook: We Were There at the Normandy Invasion by Knight Clayton Royce Ralph Contributor
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A GROUP OF CHALK-FORMING ANIMALS, OR FORAMINIFERA, EACH ABOUT THE SIZE OF A VERY SMALL PIN'S HEAD 65 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
A COMMON FORAMINIFER SHOWING THE SHELL IN THE CENTRE AND THE OUTFLOWING NETWORK OF LIVING MATTER, ALONG WHICH GRANULES ARE CONTINUALLY TRAVELLING, AND BY WHICH FOOD PARTICLES ARE ENTANGLED AND DRAWN IN 65 Reproduced by permission of the Natural History Museum .
A PLANT-LIKE ANIMAL, OR ZOOPHYTE, CALLED OBELIA 68 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
VOLVOX 69
PROTEROSPONGIA 69
GREEN HYDRA 72 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE BEGINNING OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE 72
EARTHWORM 72 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
GLASS MODEL OF A SEA-ANEMONE 72 Reproduced from the Smithsonian Report, 1917.
THIS DRAWING SHOWS THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN FROM FISH TO MAN 73
OKAPI AND GIRAFFE 74
DIAGRAM OF A SIMPLE REFLEX ARC IN A BACKBONELESS ANIMAL LIKE AN EARTHWORM 76
THE YUCCA MOTH 76 Photo: British Museum .
INCLINED PLANE OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 76
VENUS' FLY-TRAP 77 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
THE HOATZIN INHABITS BRITISH GUIANA 82
PERIPATUS 83 Photograph, from the British Museum , of a drawing by Mr. E. Wilson.
ROCK KANGAROO CARRYING ITS YOUNG IN A POUCH 83 Photo: W. S. Berridge, F.Z.S.
PROFESSOR THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 86 Photo: Rischgitz.
BARON CUVIER, 1769-1832 86
AN ILLUSTRATION SHOWING VARIOUS METHODS OF FLYING AND SWOOPING 87
A TRILOBITE 90 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
THE GAMBIAN MUD-FISH, PROTOPTERUS 91 Photo: British Museum .
THE ARCHAEOPTERYX 91 After William Leche of Stockholm.
WING OF A BIRD, SHOWING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE FEATHERS 91
PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF STRATA OF THE EARTH'S CRUST, WITH SUGGESTIONS OF CHARACTERISTIC FOSSILS 92
FOSSIL OF A PTERODACTYL OR EXTINCT FLYING DRAGON 94 Photo: British Museum .
SKELETON OF AN EXTINCT FLIGHTLESS TOOTHED BIRD, HESPERORNIS 100 After Marsh.
DIAGRAM SHOWING SEVEN STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE FORE-LIMBS AND HIND-LIMBS OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE MODERN HORSE, BEGINNING WITH THE EARLIEST KNOWN PREDECESSORS OF THE HORSE AND CULMINATING WITH THE HORSE OF TO-DAY 104 After Marsh and Lull.
WHAT IS MEANT BY HOMOLOGY? ESSENTIAL SIMILARITY OF ARCHITECTURE, THOUGH THE APPEARANCES MAY BE VERY DIFFERENT 105
AN EIGHT-ARMED CUTTLEFISH OR OCTOPUS ATTACKING A SMALL CRAB 116
A COMMON STARFISH, WHICH HAS LOST THREE ARMS AND IS REGROWING THEM 116 After Professor W. C. McIntosh.
THE PAPER NAUTILUS , AN ANIMAL OF THE OPEN SEA 117 Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S.
A PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING A STARFISH WHICH HAS CAPTURED A LARGE FISH 117
TEN-ARMED CUTTLEFISH OR SQUID IN THE ACT OF CAPTURING A FISH 118
GREENLAND WHALE 118
MINUTE TRANSPARENT EARLY STAGE OF A SEA-CUCUMBER 119
AN INTRICATE COLONY OF OPEN-SEA ANIMALS RELATED TO THE PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR 119 Photo: British Museum .
A SCENE IN THE GREAT DEPTHS 119
SEA-HORSE IN SARGASSO WEED 120
LARGE MARINE LAMPREYS 120
DEEP-SEA FISHES 120
FLINTY SKELETON OF VENUS' FLOWER BASKET , A JAPANESE DEEP-SEA SPONGE 121
THE BITTERLING 124
WOOLLY OPOSSUM CARRYING HER FAMILY 124 Photo: W. S. Berridge.
SURINAM TOAD WITH YOUNG ONES HATCHING OUT OF LITTLE POCKETS ON HER BACK 125
STORM PETREL OR MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN 125
ALBATROSS: A CHARACTERISTIC PELAGIC BIRD OF THE SOUTHERN SEA 128
THE PRAYING MANTIS 138
PROTECTIVE COLORATION: A WINTER SCENE IN NORTH SCANDINAVIA 138
THE VARIABLE MONITOR 139 Photo: A. A. White.
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