Authors: Rachel Carson
Radioiodine, entrance of, into food chains, 239–41
Radiolaria, 10–11
Radiolarian shell, 10
Rail(s), 72; black, 47; flightless, 68; Laysan, 71–72
Rathbun, Mary, 136
Rat(s), 69–70, 72; water, 21
RCA Victor records, 83
Reader’s Digest
, 24, 98
Red Rocks Lake Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 41
Redstarts, 38
“Red tides,” 142–43
Reforestation, 19
Reindeer, 237
Research universities, chemical industry’s funding of, 201, 207–8, 221–22
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 83
Robins, 190–91, 216
Rock Creek Park, 161–62
Rockweeds, 79, 120, 144, 145, 174
Rodell, Marie, 63
Roosevelt, Theodore, 18
St. Helena, island of, 70
St. Nicholas
League, 12
St. Nicholas
magazine, 12
Saint Simon Island, Georgia, 129–30
Saipan, 73–74
Salmon, 16, 17
Salt marshes, 120–21, 129
Samphire, marsh, 121
Sand: diversity of geologic origin of, 139; purple, 122; reaction of larvae to, 141–42; voice of, 130–31, 132
Sandalwood, 71
Sand dollars, 128
Sanderlings, 57–58, 125–27, 130
Sandpiper, 56, 57
Sandstone, 32
Sargasso Sea, eels seeking, 19–23, 60–62
Sargassum weed, 19, 20, 22
Saw grass, 155
Scattergood, Leslie W., 136–37
Schaefer, Vincent, 175
Schmidt, Johannes, 20
Schweitzer, Albert, 192
Science(s), 187; artificial separation of literature and, 90–91; biological, 164–67; liaison between industry and, 207–9, 210, 221
Sea anemones, 5
Sea lettuce, 145
Sea Lion Caves, 115
Sea lions, 115
Seals, 38–39, 109
Sea mounts, 106
Seashore.
See
Coastline
Sea slugs, 5
Sea spiders, 9
Sea urchins, 7, 122
Sedges, 238
Sediments, 105, 106, 236
Seed, treatment of, with chemicals, 204, 219–20
Seminole Indians, 157, 158, 159
Shad, 16, 17, 21
Sharks, 6, 11, 154; great white, 6
Shearwaters, 72
Sheep, 74, 216
Sheepscot River, 33, 34, 246
Shell Chemical Company, 208
Shorebirds, 47, 56, 57, 120, 126
Shrimps, 5, 59, 82, 127–28; sounds made by, 76, 82
Sibelius, Jean, 83
Silica, 10
Simon and Schuster, 53, 55, 150
Skimmers, 130
Skylarks, 71
Smith, S.I., 136
Smithsonian, U.S. National Museum of, 63, 136, 137
Snail(s), 5, 79, 80, 122; pelagic, 10; tree, 157, 158–59; winged, 7
Snow, C. P., 90
Songbirds, 216
Southport Island, Maine, 34–40, 111, 169; “Lost Woods” on, 111, 172–74
South Trinidad, island of, 68, 70
Sparrow, 127; fox, 47; song, 38, 47; swamp, 47; white-throated, 47.
See also
Vesper-sparrow
Spiders, 66–67, 159
Sponges, 5, 9, 153
Spraying, 201, 217, 233–34.
See also
Pesticides
Spruce, 39, 40, 118, 171, 174, 247
Squids, 82, 121
Stacks, 115
Starfishes, 5, 7, 59, 80, 153
Starlings, 24
Stevens, Christine, 189, 192–93
Strontium
90
, 237–38
Sturgeon, 16
Sunfish, 21
Surgeon General, 241
Susupe, Lake, 73
Sutton, George Mitsch, 28
Swan(s): at Mattamuskeet Refuge, 41, 43–44, 46–47, 48; trumpeter, 43, 44; whistling, 41, 43–44; wild, 15–16, 44
Swift: Asiatic, 27; chimney, migration patterns of, 24, 25–29; Chinese, 26; Vaux’s, 26
Swinburne, Algernon, 77, 148
Swordfish, 60
Syncoryne
, 138
Szady, Ma, 155
Tahiti, 70
Tamiami Trail, 155
Tapotchau, Mt., 73–74
Teal: blue-winged, 45; green-winged, 45
Temperatures, warming of, 135–36, 137, 138
Tern(s), 37, 68; black, 47; Sooty, 72
Test ban treaty, 242
Thalidomide, 218
Theta Sigma Phi, Carson’s speech to, 147–63
Thoreau, Henry David, 94, 166
Thrashers, brown, 216
Thrush(es): hermit, 33, 35, 47; wood, 12, 13, 47
Tides: full moon and, 116–17; new moon and, 169; red, 142–43
Tierra del Fuego, 86
Time
, 206
Tinian, 73
Titmice, 71
Todd Point, 247
Tomlinson, H. M., 172
Tornado, 182, 184; in Worcester, Mass. (1953), 183–84
Tortoise, 66, 67
Toscanini, Arturo, 83
Toxophene, 235
Trade Winds, 180
Trilobites, 117
Tristan da Cunha, 69–70
Truman, Bess, 83
Truman, Harry S., 83
Tule Lake Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 234–35
Tunas, 60, 109
Turbidity currents, 105, 236
Turkey, 68; wild, 16
Ulithi Atoll, 72
Ulva
, 145
Urchins.
See
Sea urchins
Utah State Department of Health, 240
Vancouver, George, 71
Van Dorn, Irita, 76
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 150
Velsicol Chemical Corporation, 208
Vesper-sparrow, 13
Vineyard Sound, 54, 136
Vireo: red-eyed, 47; white-eyed, 47
Virginia’s Department of Agriculture, 216
Volcanoes, submarine, 10, 65
Wallace, Alfred, 70
Wallace, George, 191
Walsh, Bernard, 225
Warbler(s), 39; Blackburnian, 39; black-throated green, 39–40; myrtle, 39, 47; parula, 39; prairie, 47; prothonotary, 47
Washington Hospital Center, 223n
Washington Post
, the, 98, 189; Carson’s letter in, on misuse of pesticides, 189, 190–91
Waterfowl, 16, 17, 18, 19; migration of, 168, 171; pesticide residues in, 234; refuges, 41, 42–49
Watson, Mark, 14
Waves, 85–86; earthquake, 104
Wax myrtles, 47
Waxwing, cedar, 47
Weeks, Edward, 3
Westinghouse Science Writing Prize, 64
Whale(s), 6, 11, 109; blue, 6; sounds made by, 76, 82
Wheat, treatment of, with chemicals, 204, 219–20
Whelks, 120
White, E.B., 12
Wigeon(s), 45; European, 47
Wildlife, fight for conservation of, 15–19
Willets, 127, 129, 130
Williamson, Henry, 22
Will-o-the-wisps, 170
Willow leaves, 238
Wilson, Douglas, 139, 140–42
Wimpenny, R. S., 145
Winds: clouds and, 178, 179; jet streams, 185; Trade, 180
Wisconsin, University of, 208
Wisconsin Canners Association, 208
Women’s National Press Club, Carson’s speech to, 201–10
Woodcock, 204–5
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 76, 80n
Woods Hole Oceanographic Laboratory, 133
Wood Thrush, The
, 63–64
World War II, 82, 102; destruction of species in, 72
Worm(s), 7, 59, 134; annelid, 139; plumed, 128; tube, 5, 6
Wrens, Carolina, 47
Yale Review
, 64
Yellow-throat, Maryland, 13
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Carson, Rachel, 1907–1964.
[Selections. 1998]
Lost woods: the discovered writing of Rachel Carson/edited and with an introduction by Linda Lear.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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-ISBN
978-0-8070-9544-7
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978-0-8070-8547-9 (paper)
1. Nature. 2. Wildlife conservation. 3. Marine ecology. 4. Bird watching.
I. Lear, Linda J., 1940– . II. Title.
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3546 1998
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