My Studio Neighbors

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[Illustration (signed) W Hamilton Gibson]

MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS

BY

WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

[Illustration]

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER &BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1898

Copyright, 1897, by HARPER &BROTHERS.

All rights reserved.

[Illustration: CONTENTS]

[Illustration: LIST OF DESIGNS]

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William Hamilton GibsonFrontispiece

Initial. The Studio Door 3

The Rose-bush Episode 9

A Corner of My Table 12

An Animated Brush 14

A Specimen in Three Stages 16

The Studio Table 18

Initial 23

The European Cuckoo 24

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo 26

Browsing Kine 29

A Greedy Foster-child 34

The Yellow Warbler 44

A Blighted Home 46

The Normal Nest of the Yellow Warbler 47

The Yellow Warbler at Home 49

A Suspicious Nest of the Yellow Warbler 50

The Nest Separated 52

Initial 57

The Door-step Arena, with its Pitfalls 60

Fishing for Tigers 65

Tiger-beetle 68

The Spider Victim 70

Filling the Spider's Grave 71

Black Digger-wasp 73

Black Digger-wasp and His Victim, Showing the Egg of the

Wasp Attached 75

Protecting the Burrow while Searching for Prey 79

The "Cow-spit" Mystery Disclosed 81

The Tiger's Head, from the Victim's Stand-point 84

Initial. Branch of the Bittersweet 87

A Bittersweet Covey 90

Flushing the Game 92

Specimen Twig 94

Building Froth-tent 100

Butterflies and Flowers 105

A Row of Stamens 106

The Parts of a Flower 109

Historical Series, Showing the Progress of Discovery of

Flower Fertilization 110

The Garden Sage 120

Cross-fertilization of the Sage 121

Elastic Stamens. Anthers Inserted in their Pockets 124

Elastic Stamens of Mountain-laurel 125

Andromeda Ligustrina 127

Fertilisation of Andromeda 128

The Laurel 130

Cross-fertilization of the Blue-flag 131

Blue-flag 132

Pogonia and Devil's-bit 133

Devil's-bit 134

Horse-balm. Collinsonia 135

Cross-fertilization of the Horse-balm-Flowers in Various

Stages, and in the Order of their Visitation by the Bee 136

The Cone-flower 137

Cone-flower, Showing Numerous Florets, Some in Pollen,

Others in Stigmatic Stage 139

Cross-fertilization of Cone-flower 140

The Fertilization of the English Arum, 1st Stage 141

The Fertilization of the English Arum. 2d, 3d, 4th,

and 5th Stages 142

Pogonia 145

Cross-fertilization 146

A Pine Branch 151

Initial 151

The Picnic 159

Tail-piece 167

Habenaria Orbiculata 171

Arethusa Bulbosa 177

The Botanical Distribution of an Ordinary Flower and of

the Orchid 182

The "Column" in Various Orchids 183

The Result of the Bee's Visit 184

Cross-fertilization of Arethusa 188

Habenaria Orbiculata. A Single Flower Enlarged 190

Orchis Spectabilis 191

Cross-fertilization of H. Orbiculata (Sphinx-moth) 193

The Flower and Column of Orchis Spectabilis, Enlarged 195

Orchis Spectabilis 195

Position of Pollen of Orchis Spectabilis Withdrawn on Pencil 197

The Cross-fertilization of Orchis Spectabilis 197

The Purple-fringed Orchid 199

The Ragged Orchid (Front Section) 200

The Ragged Orchid (Profile Section) 202

The Ragged Orchid (H. Lacera) and the Butterfly's

Tongue. Cross-fertilization 203

The Yellow Orchid (H. Flava) 204

The Ragged Orchid (H. Lacera) 205

Cypripedium Acaule 207

Moccasin-flower (C. Acaule) 208

The Bee Imprisoned in the Lips of Cypripedium 210

Moccasin-flower. Bee Sipping Nectar 211

The Bee Passing Beneath the Stigma 213

A Bee Receiving Pollen-plaster on His Thorax 214

Rattlesnake-Plantain-the Young and the Old 215

Cross-fertilization of the Rattlesnake-Plantain.

Side Sections 216

Cross-fertilisation of the Rattlesnake-Plantain. Front View 217

The Tongue of a Bumblebee 218

Goodyera, or Periamium Pubescens 221

Milkweed Captives 231

The Pollen Masses and the Fissure 232

The Tragedy of the Bees 235

A Moth Caught by the Tongue in Dogbane 237