Natural Wonders of Children’s Library (Illustrated‪)‬

This work is the first attempt to set before young readers some knowledge of certain loosely related but very modern topics, commonly grouped together under the name, General Physiology. It is, in short, an attempt to lead children of eight or ten, first to ask and then to answer, the question: What have I in common with other living things, and how do I differ from them? Incidentally, in addition, I have attempted to provide a foundation on which a perplexed but serious-minded parent can himself base an answer to several puzzling questions which all children ask—most especially to that most difficult of them all: By what process of becoming did I myself finally appear in this world?


NATURAL WONDERS

CONTENTS

Chap. I How The Chicken Gets Inside The Egg

Chap. II Some Other Sorts of Eggs

Chap. III Little Fishes in The Brook

Chap. IV Of Plants’ Eggs

Chap. V What Little Boys And Girls Are Made Of

Chap. VI More About Living Bricks

Chap. VII How Much Of Us Is Alive

Chap. VIII How We Grow

Chap. IX How We Grow Up

Chap. X How We Grow Old

Chap. XI Why We Grow At All

Chap. XII Things That Do Not Have To Be Learned

Chap. XIII Why We Like Certain Things

Chap. XIV Animals’ Games

Chap. XV Some Instincts Of Chicks And Kittens

Chap. XVI Certain Stupidities Of Animals

Chap. XVII How We Differ From The Animals

Chap. XVIII Something More About Speech And Thinking

Chap. XIX Why Most Of Us Are Right-Handed

Chap. XX Where We Do Our Thinking

Chap. XXI Where Some Of The Animals Do Their Thinking

Chap. XXII What Plants Know

Chap. XXIII What Plants Can Do

Chap. XXIV Some Plant-Like Doings Of Animals

Chap. XXV The Five Senses And The Other Five

Chap. XXVI Eyes

Chap. XXVII Seeing And Believing

Chap. XXVIII Some Other Senses

Chap. XXIX The Sight And Hearing Of Ants

Chap. XXX Ants’ Noses

Chap. XXXI Some Other Eyes And Ears

Chap. XXXII Having Senses And Using Them

Chap. XXXIII Seeing In The Mind’s Eye

Chap. XXXIV Ear Minds And Others

Chap. XXXV Living Automobiles

Chap. XXXVI Air And Fuel

Chap. XXXVII Men In Glass Boxes

Chap. XXXVIII Of Sugar And Other Poisons

Chap. XXXIX Snake Venoms And Others

Chap. XL Of Measles And Rusty Nails

Chap. XLI The Great War

Chap. XLII More About The Great War

Chap. XLIII Living Apothecary Shops

Chap. XLIV What Becomes Of The Tadpoles

Chap. XLV Nature’s Repair Shop

Chap. XLVI Little Monsters

Chap. XLVII How The Animals Keep Their Tools Sharp

Chap. XLVIII Why The Blood Is Salt

Chap. XLIX Horses’ Fingers

Chap. L How The Elephant Got His Trunk

Chap. LI Something Nobody Understands