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This volume is affectionately dedicated to the Late Victor Van Straelen / (p. v) -- Foreword / Robert I. Bowman. (pp. vii-ix) -- List of contributors. (p. xv) -- Comments on the names of the islands of the Galápagos. (p. xvii) -- Charles Darwin : Galápagos and after / Sir Julian Huxley. (pp. 3-9) -- Animal evolution on islands / Alden H. Miller. (pp. 10-17) -- Insular adaptive radiation among birds / Dean Amadon. (pp. 18-30) -- Behavior studies of animals in their natural environment / Niko Tinbergen. (pp. 31-38) -- Interaction of physiology and behavior under natural conditions / George A. Bartholomew. (pp. 39-45) -- Variation and adaptation in Galápagos plants / G. Ledyard Stebbins. (pp. 46-54) -- The oceanic volcanic island ecosystem / F. Raymond Fosberg. (pp. 55-61) -- Geology of the Galápagos Islands / Howel Williams. (pp. 65-70) -- Petrology of the Galápagos Islands / Alexander R. McBirney and Ken-ichiro Aoki. (pp. 71-77) -- Continental drift in the southern hemisphere / Allan Cox. (pp. 78-86) -- Study of a soil sequence on Indefatigable Island / Jacques Laruelle. (pp. 87-92) -- The climatological setting of the Galápagos / Clarence E. Palmer and Robert L. Pyle. (pp. 93-99) -- The oceanographic setting of the Galápagos / Warren S. Wooster and Joel W. Hedgpeth. (pp. 100-107) -- Factors influencing the zoogeographic affinities of Galápagos inshore marine fauna / Donald P. Abbott. (pp. 108-122) -- Coelenterates, especially stony corals, from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands / J. Wyatt Durham. (pp. 123-135) -- The macromolecular toxin of sea anemones (Coelenterata) / Edgar J. Martin. (pp. 136-138) -- Zoogeographic affinities of the Balanomorpha (Cirripedia : Thoracica) of the eastern Pacific / Victor A. Zullo. (pp. 139-144) -- Distribution of marine wood-boring organisms in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean / Robert C. Miller. (pp. 145-148) -- Status of our knowledge of the Galápagos benthic marine algal flora prior to the Galápagos International Scientific Project / Paul C. Silva. (pp. 149-156) -- The symbiosis between tropical sea anemones and fishes : a review / Richard N. Mariscal. (pp. 157-171) -- The origins and affinities of the Galápagos shorefishes / Boyd W. Walker. (pp. 172-174) -- Origins and relationships of the flora of the Galápagos Islands / Ira L. Wiggins. (pp. 175-182) -- Botany of Cocos Island, Costa Rica / Luis A. Fournier. (pp. 183-186) -- Preliminary list of plants from Cocos Island / Raymond Fosberg and W. L. Klawe. (pp. 187-189) -- Lichenology and bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with check lists of the lichens and bryophytes thus far reported / William A. Weber. (pp. 190-200) -- Problems on the origin, dispersal, and establishment of the Galápagos cottons / Stanley G. Stephens and Charles M. Rick. (pp. 201-208) -- Cacti in the Galápagos Islands, with special reference to their relations with tortoises / E. Yale Dawson. (pp. 209-214) -- Some plant-animal relations on the Galápagos Islands / Charles M. Rick. (pp. 215-224) -- Pollinating insects of the Galápagos Islands / E. Gorton Linsley. (pp. 225-232) -- Evolution of orsilline insect faunas on oceanic islands (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae) / Robert L. Usinger and Peter D. Ashlock. (pp. 233-235) -- Evolutionary problems of mite-host specificity and its relevance to studies on Galápagos organisms / Paul H. Vercammen-Grandjean. (pp. 236-239) -- Land snails of the Galápagos / Allyn G. Smith. (pp. 240-251) -- The Galápagos tortoises, Geochelone Fitzinger 1835 (Testudo Linnaeus 1758 in Part) / John D. Hendrickson. (pp. 252-257) -- Influence of the parietal eye on activity in lizards / Robert C. Stebbins and Daniel C. Wilhoft. (pp. 258-268) -- Comparative behavior of the Galápagos lava lizards (Tropidurus) / Charles C. Carpenter. (pp. 269-273) -- Species and individual variations in iodine metabolism / Jerold M. Lowenstein and Francis S. Greenspan. (pp. 274-275) -- Evolutionary aspects of the mammalian fauna of the Galápagos / Robert T. Orr. (pp. 276-281) -- Problems of conservation and economic development of the Galápagos / Misael Acosta-Solís. (pp. 282-285) -- Economic resources of the Galápagos Islands / Carl B. Koford. (pp. 286-290) -- Possible utilization of solar energy on the Galápagos Islands / Farrington Daniels. (pp. 291-299).

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