The Haunts of Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Haunts of Life This simple book consists of six lectures which I had the honour and pleasure of giving at the Royal Institution in the Christmas holidays, 1920-1921. The aim of these lectures was mainly to help my very alert audience to form vivid pictures of the great haunts of animal life, and to get glimpses of the subtle ways in which living creatures solve the problems of particular places. I have kept in the printed pages as closely as I could to what I said at the time, hoping to secure the virtue of simplicity. I think it would be very ungracious if I did not use the opportunity of this preface to thank Sir James Dewar, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., for the great kindness that he showed me when I was for a delightful fortnight in the service of the Royal Institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.