Eye spy; afield with nature among flowers and animate things

By

Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, Harper, 1897

Notes

Contents: A naturalist's boyhood -- The story of the floundering beetle -- Fox-fire -- A homely weed with interesting flowers -- Two fairy sponges -- Green pansies -- Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug -- Those horse-hair snakes -- Professor Wiggler -- Cow-spit, snake-spit, and frog-spit -- The paper wasp and his doings -- The spider's span -- Ballooning spiders -- The lace-wing fly -- The perfumed beetles -- Mushroom spore-prints -- Some curious cocoons -- Nettle-leaf tent-builders -- The evening primrose -- The dandelion burglar -- The troubles of the house-fly -- Tendrils -- A strange story of a grasshopper -- Riddles in flowers -- Luck in clovers -- Barberry manners -- A woolly flock -- What ails him? -- The cicada's last song -- Index.

Subjects

Entomology , Guidebooks , Insects , Laboratory manuals , Natural history , Outdoor books

Call Number

QH81 .G41

Classification

574.04

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.27934
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/04010738
OCLC: 406741
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51471601