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Edge of the Jungle

Edge of the Jungle

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EDGE OF THE
JUNGLE

 

By WILLIAM BEEBE

Honorary Curator of Birds and Director of the Tropical
Research Station of the New York Zoological Society.

 

 

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GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.

 

 

Copyright, 1921

By HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY


TO
THE BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES,
THE ANTS AND TREE-FROGS
WHO HAVE TOLERATED ME IN
THEIR JUNGLE ANTE-CHAMBERS
I OFFER THIS VOLUME OF
FRIENDLY WORDS

NOTE

This second series of essays, following those in Jungle Peace, are republished by the kindness of the Editors of The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine and House and Garden.

With the exception of A Tropic Garden which refers to the Botanical Gardens of Georgetown, all deal with the jungle immediately about the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society, situated at Kartabo, at the junction of the Cuyuni and Mazaruni Rivers, in British Guiana.

For the accurate identification of the more important organisms mentioned, a brief appendix of scientific names has been prepared.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER     PAGE
I   The Lure of Kartabo 3
II   A Jungle Clearing 34
III   The Home Town of the Army Ants 58
IV   A Jungle Beach 90
V   A Bit of Uselessness 112
VI   Guinevere the Mysterious 123
VII   A Jungle Labor Union 149
VIII   The Attas at Home 172
IX   Hammock Nights 195
X   A Tropic Garden 230
XI   The Bay of Butterflies 252
XII   Sequels 274
  Appendix of Scientific Names 295
  Index 299

EDGE OF THE JUNGLE

"For the true scientific method is this:
To trust no statements without verification,
to test all things as rigorously as possible,
to keep no secrets, to attempt no monopolies,
to give out one's best modestly and plainly,
serving no other end but knowledge."

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