Field Book Of Ponds And Streams An Introduction To The Life Of Fresh Water Scholar S Choice Edition

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Foreword: Minnows and frogs and brown water beetles, scurrying to cover as we approach the shore of a still clear pond, show us that the water has some very lively inhabitants. The swim and dive and paddle in the open until we come, and then they hide from us distrustfully. Theirs is another world than ours. In that world there are strange living creatures in endless variety. There are big and little, swift and slow, strong and weak, graceful and ungainly: all are born to feed and grow and reproduce, to hunt and be hunted, to strive for a livlihood; and in so doing to fill a place in the household of nature. No one who has lived by clear waters can have failed to see something of their wonderful life: minnows on the shoals; caddis worms dragging their cumbersome portable houses over the brook bed; the young of mayflies clinging to the stones in the riffle, or the adult mayflies in their dancing nuptial flight in the air above the stream; and what could be more interesting? To make the knowledge of the whole range of life in ponds and streams a little more easy of access is a major purpose of this book. And with that knowledge will come appreciation, and a purpose to aid in keeping the waters free from pollution. Clean waters are always charming; and nothing is more sordid and unwholesome than polluted water. Here is a public service of no small moment. It is all in the interest of a better human enviornment; better for health, for recreation, for instruction, and for aesthetic pleasures. A book like this cannot fail to render good service since it tells the simple truth about aquatic creatures in an interesting way, illustrates them with good figures, and so enables the reader to know what they are like and where to go to find them.--James G. Needham, Cornell University, March, 1930.

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Plant and animal life of North American ponds and streams, with special emphasis on the adaptions which make locomotion, respiration, food-getting, and reproduction possible beneath the surface of the water.