The art of ecology: writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Foreword / Thomas E. Lovejoy

Preface

Part 1. Introduction

The Beauty of the World: Evelyn Hutchinson's Vision of Science / Sharon E. Kingsland

Aria da Capo and Quodlibet

in An Introduction to Population Ecology (Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 237-241

New England Moral to Adorn the Tale (excerpt)

Chapter 8 in The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: Recollections of an Embryo Ecologist (Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 228-253

Part 2. Biography

From English Schoolboy to America's Foremost Ecologist / Nancy G. Slack

A Swimming Grasshopper

Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 30 (1918): 138

Emmanuel: Being Taught (excerpt)

Emmanuel: Learning (excerpts)

Chapters 4 and 5 in The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: Recollections of an Embryo Ecologist (Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 86-107, 123-124

Part 3. Limnology

Astonishing Microcosms / David M. Post / David W. Schindler

Limnological Studies at High Altitudes in Ladak

Nature 132 (1933): 136

Chemical Stratification and Lake Morphology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 24 (1938): 63-69

Limnological Studies in Connecticut: IV. The Mechanisms of Intermediary Metabolism in Stratified Lakes

Ecological Monographs 11 (1941): 21-60

The History of a Lake

Yale Scientific Magazine 16 (1942): 13-15, 22

A Direct Demonstration of the Phosphorus Cycle in a Small Lake (G. E. Hutchinson and V. T. Bowen)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 33 (1947): 148-153

The Lacustrine Microcosm Reconsidered

American Scientist 52 (1964): 334-341

A Treatise on Limnology, vol. 1: Geography, Physics and Chemistry (excerpts)

(John Wiley and Sons, 1957), pp. 1-2, 750-752

Part 4. Theory

Reflection Thereon: G. Evelyn Hutchinson and Ecological Theory / Melinda D. Smith / David K. Skelly

Ecological Aspects of Succession in Natural Populations

The American Naturalist 75 (1941): 406-418

Copepodology for the Ornithologist

Ecology 32 (1951): 571-577

The Concept of Pattern in Ecology

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 105 (1953): 1-12

Concluding Remarks

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22 (1957): 415-427

Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?

The American Naturalist 93 (1959): 145-159

The Paradox of the Plankton

The American Naturalist 95 (1961): 137-145

The Influence of the Environment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 51 (1964): 930-934

Thoughts on Aquatic Insects

BioScience 31 (1981): 495-500

Experiencing Green Pigeons / Michael J. Donoghue / Jane Pickering

A Note on the Functions of a University

in The Itinerant Ivory Tower (Yale University Press, 1953), pp. 144-147

The Uses of Beetles

in The Enchanted Voyage and Other Studies (Yale University Press, 1962), pp. 90-97

The Naturalist as an Art Critic

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 115 (1963): 99-111

The Cream in the Gooseberry Fool

American Scientist 51 (1963): 446-453

On Being a Meter and a Half Long

in P. H. Oehser, ed., Knowledge Among Men (Simon and Schuster, 1966), pp. 83-92

Aysthorpe

Chapter 2 in The Kindly Fruits of the Earth (Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 23-48

Conjectures Arising in a Quiet Museum

Antenna, Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society of London 4 (1980): 92, 97-98

Appendix: Publications of G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Notes

References

List of Contributors

Credits