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[Illustration: Frontispiece]

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Frontispiece by
Walter King Stone

THE LOG OF THE SUN
A Chronicle of Nature's Year

By WILLIAM BEEBE

Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.
Garden City, New York

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COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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TO MY
Mother and Father
WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND SYMPATHY
GAVE IMPETUS AND PURPOSE TO
A BOY'S LOVE OF NATURE

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PREFACE

In the fifty-two short essays of this volume I have presented familiar
objects from unusual points of view. Bird's-eye glances and insect's-eye
glances, at the nature of our woods and fields