Acknowledgments
From the Editors
A Foundation Built by Giants~~~Michael H. Graham
Inspiration~~~Robert T. Paine
The Great Horned Owl (1927)—Edward H. Forbush
Just Tigers (1944)—Jim Corbett
Looking Back (1944)—Jim Corbett
Forward to The salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae (1926)—Emmett R. Dunn
The Wisdom of Instinct (1918)—Jean Henri Fabre
The Wolf Spiders (1954)—John Crompton [pseudonym of John Battersby Crompton Lamburn]
Contour Diving (1934)—William Beebe
The Winter Journey (1930)—Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Wombats (1963)—Peter J. Nicholson
Journey to the Sea (1941)—Rachel L. Carson
Notes on the Natural History of Some Marine Animals (1938)—George E. MacGinitie
Exploration~~~Gage H. Dayton, Paul K. Dayton, and Harry W. Greene
Inaccessible Island and Nightingale Island (1879)—Henry N. Moseley
The Islands Galapagos (1697)—William Dampier
The Sea Otter and the Sea Cow (1741-1742)—Georg W. Steller
Chapters from the Life-Histories of Texas Reptiles and Amphibians (1926)—John Kern Strecker
Account of the Electrical Eels, and the Method of catching them in South America by means of Wild Horses (1820)—Alexander Von Humboldt
Comments on the Cephalopods Found in the Stomach of a Sperm Whale (1913/1914)—Prince Albert I of Monaco
On collecting at Cape Royds (1910)—James Murray
A Submarine Gully in Wembury Bay, South Devon (1934)—John A. Kitching, T. T. Macan, and H. Cary Gilson
A Briefe and True Report of the Newfoundland of Virginia (1588)—Thomas Hariot
Initiation~~~Nancy Knowlton
Home range and mobility of brush rabbits in California chaparral (1954)—Joseph H. Connell
Food recognition and predation on opistobranchs by Navanax inermis (1963)—Robert T. Paine
Variation and adaptation in the imported fire ant (1951)—Edward O. Wilson
Storm mortality in a Winter Starling roost (1939)—Eugene P. Odum and Frank A. Pitelka
The dispersal of insects to Spitsbergen (1925)—Charles S. Elton
A tenderfoot explorer in New Guinea (1932)—Ernst Mayr
On the occurrence of Trichocorixa kirkaldy (Corixidae, Hemiptera-Heteroptera) in salt water and its zoo-geo-graphical significance (1931)—G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Ecological compatibility of bird species on islands (1966)—Peter R. Grant
Bivalves: spatial and size-frequency distributions of two intertidal species (1968)—Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Intuition~~~Shahid Naeem
The Structure and Habits of Birds (1244-1250)—Frederick II of Hohenstaufen
Of the Spider (1800)—Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Observations Relating to the History of Bees (1758)—Jan Swammerdam
History of a mussel bed: Observations on a phase of faunal disequilibrium (1935)—Edouard Fischer-Piette
On a provisional hypothesis of saltatory evolution (1877)—William H. Dall
On the Natural History of the Aru Islands (1857)—Alfred Russel Wallace
Evolutionary criteria in Thallophytes: A radical alternative (1968)—Lynn Margulis
Observations and Experiments upon the Freshwater Polypus (1742)—Abraham Trembley
On the causes of zoning of brown seaweeds on the seashore (1909)—Sarah M. Baker
On the causes of zoning of brown seaweeds on the seashore. II. The effect of periodic exposure on the expulsion of gametes and on the germination of the oospore (1910)—Sarah M. Baker
The chalk grasslands of Hampshire-Sussex border: The effects of rabbits (1925)—Alfred G. Tansley and Robert S. Adamson
The biosphere and the noösphere (1945)—Vladimir J. Vernadsky
Unification~~~Peter R. Grant
The Natural History of Selborne (1813)—Gilbert White
Maupertuis, Pioneer of Genetics and Evolution (1959)—Bentley Glass
On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects (1862)—Charles Darwin
Lepidoptera: Heliconidae (1861)—Henry W. Bates
Vertebrata: Aves: Drepanidae (1903)—Robert C. L. Perkins
Geography and evolution in the pocket gopher (1927)—Joseph Grinnell
Coevolution of mutualism between ants and acacias in Central America (1966)—Daniel H. Janzen
List of Contributors
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