Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Masterpieces of Science:, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Author: Various Editor: George Iles Release Date: August 20, 2009 [EBook #29739] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE: *** Produced by Sigal Alon, Marcia Brooks, Fox in the Stars and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE Charles R. Darwin. Little Masterpieces of Science Edited by George Iles THE NATURALIST AS INTERPRETER AND SEER B y Charles Darwin Alfred R. Wallace Thomas H. Huxley Leland O. Howard George Iles NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1902 Copyright, 1902, by Doubleday, Page & Co. Copyright, 1877, by D. Appleton & Co. Copyright, 1901, by John Wanamaker Copyright, 1895, by G. H. Buek & Co. Transcriber's Notes: Obvious printer's errors have been silently corrected. Hyphenated and accented words have been standardized. PREFACE To gather stones and fallen boughs is soon to ask, what may be done with them, can they be piled and fastened together for shelter?