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| List of Illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Summer, from Rural Hours | 1 | |
| Birds and Their Friends | 9 | |
| Plants That Eat Animals, from Home Studies in Nature | 17 | |
| From On the Plains and among the Peaks; or How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection, by Mary Dartt | 33 | |
| Experiences of a Collector Collecting on Biscayne Bay, Part II | 45 | |
| The Woman Botanist, from Summer in a Bog | 55 | |
| The Home Life of the Chimney Swift, from Birds of an Iowa Dooryard | 62 | |
| Down with the House Wren Boxes, from Birds of an Iowa Dooryard | ||
| Communal Life, from Wasps: Social and Solitary, with George W. Peckham | 75 | |
| Ammophila and Her Caterpillars, from Wasps: Social and Solitary, with George W. Peckham | ||
| Letter: May 7, 1906 In Portu Bodega | 84 | |
| Ruffed Grouse: Partridge, from Birds through an Opera Glass | 95 | |
| Long-Billed Marsh Wren, from Birds of Village and Field | ||
| Camping under the Stars on the Way Up, from Among the Birds in the Grand Canyon Country | ||
| A Dweller in Tents, from Ways of the Six-Footed | 106 | |
| The Hermit Thrush: The Voice of the Northern Woods | 114 | |
| Tenants of Birdsacre | ||
| Eastern Brazil through an Agrostologist's Spectacles | 126 | |
| Camping on the Equator | 136 | |
| Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon | ||
| Mary S. Young's Journal of Botanical Explorations in Trans-Pecos, Texas, August-September, 1914 | 152 | |
| Ecology and World War I, from Adventures in Ecology | 161 | |
| Marooned in a Potato Field | 171 | |
| Mayflies: Ephemerida (Plectoptera), from Field Book of Ponds and Streams | 179 | |
| Fresh-Water Sponges in Winter | ||
| The Awakening, from Research Is a Passion with Me | 189 | |
| On Watching an Ovenbird's Nest, from The Watcher at the Nest | ||
| The Grandchildren of Uno and 4M, from The Watcher at the Nest | ||
| Behavior of Pompilid Wasps, from Wasp Studies Afield, with Phil Rau | 203 | |
| Watching a Carolina Wren's Nest | 210 | |
| Camping in the Kisatchie Wold | 216 | |
| The Forest of Lynn Fork of Leatherwood | 223 | |
| From Crip, Come Home | 230 | |
| Sea Pansies, from The Edge of the Sea | 236 | |
| Basket Starfish, from The Edge of the Sea | ||
| The Other Road, from Silent Spring | ||
| Afterword | ||
| Selected Bibliography |
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Nicholas Lavers
reviewed American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists, Vol. 20 on April 06, 2019
American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists, Vol. 20
"...I could not employ my life better than in adding a little to natural science. This I have done to the best of my abilities, and critics may say what they like, but they cannot destroy this conviction." ~Charles Darwin (pg 104)
A very atypical autobiography, written more for the benefit of his children and grandchildren than for public consumption. He was indeed a very modest man, even his most prestigious achievements are recounted with gratitude and humility. He speaks very frankly about the many people he likes and the very few that he does not, and his sense of humor is evident throughout. I came away with a greater appreciation for Darwin the man, and a deeper reverence for Darwin the ever-meticulous naturalist.
"...if I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied could thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." ~C.D. (pg 113)
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