Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART 1 Introduction -- The Beauty of the World: Evelyn Hutchinson's Vision of Science -- Aria da Capo and Quodlibet in An Introduction to Population Ecology (Yale University Press, 1978),pp. 237-247 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 (1964): 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 -- 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 -- PART 5 Museums -- Experiencing Green Pigeons -- 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.