Life and Her Children (Yesterday's Classics)

<p>An engaging introduction to the invertebrates beginning with the simple amœbæ and concluding with the complex centipedes spiders and six-legged insects. In between the reader encounters a number of groups of animals of increasing complexity beginning with the living sponge the traveling jelly-fish and the wondrous coral-builders then passing on to the star-fish sea-urchins and sea-cucumbers. Next come mussels and snails cuttle-fish and oysters followed by creeping worms and arriving at last at the joint-legged division including crabs that live in the water as well as the aforementioned centipedes spiders and insects that breathe only in the air which comprise more than four-fifths of the living beings on our globe. All creatures are described in such a way as to arouse an abiding interest in them and their behavior. Dozens of labeled ink drawings suitable for copying into notebooks are included encouraging close attention to details.</p>