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Show 24 CONTENTS. . r~~ Mosses and Lichens - - • · . • 321 The Beginning of Observation is all the D1fficulty 325 Deficiency and Redundance of Names - • 326 Animals tetter !mown than Plants-Some of the Reasons 327 Character of Animul Life - ~ 332 The Egg - - - - • • 333 Individual Differences of Animals - 335 Dispositions and their Expression - 336 Monsters and Mules - - - - 338 Wild Subjects best for Study - - . • - . • • 340 Effects of Time-on Countries-on theu Product10ns-on Mankind - - - - - - 341 The proper Method of studying Nature-Its Advantages - 343 LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. Omithorhyncus Paradoxus - Oak-twig, Natural Size - Acorns-A. and B. Penshanger Oak Ignis Fatuus - - - - The Glow-worm, male and female Vernal Grass-Woodruff - Dew on the Spider's Web - 'I'he Geyser Hotham Island - Hill-making under Water - Cassavi (Jatropha Manihot) • • Watermelon in the Desert of Ajmere Rhinanthera Coccinea Dry Rot (Xylostroma Giganteum) • 46 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 144 - 145 - 179 • 194 • 219 • 243 • 250 • 256 • 275 • 278 !?i\5 / ) ) 'f ~ l ,) ' v • , ., ~ ~~~t) ' 0! ,). ., - , ~) ) I I) I !J) j . ,) )t) ., A ~ ~ w, ~ ~. )• ·~ ' . ,.., > "1)-.1 ,I .; ) 'I ,.1 POPULAR GUIDE TO THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE . SECTION I. The Necessity and Use of Obsermng. .. " So natural is observation to us, that we in com. mon language allude to it in cases where there is really nothing to observe. When we are perplexed and in difficulty about the absent or the future, and take counsel together in order that, by our union, we may overcome the difficulty, our words of mutual encouragement are, " Let us see ;" and when we have exercised our thoughts rightly, and the difficulty is overcome to our mind, our expression of triumph is," Now we see our way." Also, when4 ever we fail in that which we attempt, or err in the performance of it, the cause of the failure or the error is, that" We do not see our way." To sed our way, and to see it clearly, ought therefore, in all matters, to be our very first o~ject. Indeed, the only difference between the ignorant and the intelligent is, that the former grope, as it were, in the dark, and the latter see the end of matters, as if the road were open and straight, and the noon-day suu shining upon it. This seeing with the mind-this light of the tm . |