Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

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by Rachel Carson


  Interior, U.S. Department of, 24, 100, 234

  International Geophysical Year, 103

  Iodine, radioactive, entrance of, into food chains, 239–41

  Iron, 10

  Islands: conservation problems of, 72–75; evolution of, 63, 65–72; migration to, 66, 67; species extinction on, 64–65, 69, 70, 73 and 73n, 74

  Jaegers, 58

  Jefferies, Richard, 94, 162

  Jellyfish, 59

  Jet streams, 185

  John Burroughs Memorial Association, 95

  John Burroughs Memorial Medal, Carson’s remarks at acceptance of, 93–97

  Johns Hopkins University, 14, 15, 149, 207

  Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 240

  Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, 90

  Journal of Economic Entomology, 208

  Juniper, 39

  Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Group, Carson’s lecture to, 227–45

  Kansas State University, 208

  Kelps, 144

  Kennedy, John F., 201

  Kingbird, Arkansas, 47

  Kingfisher, 38

  Kinglet, ruby-crowned, 47

  Klamath Lake, 18

  Klamath National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 234–35

  Kon-Tiki, 81

  Korean War, 83

  Koror, island of, 73

  Lack, David, 69

  Lanai, island of, 74–75

  Lanai Ranch, 74

  Lantana, 71

  Lapps, Scandinavian, levels of radioactivity in, 237, 238

  Lark, horned, 47

  Larvae, ecology of, 138–42

  Laysan, 68; Rails, 71–72

  Lichens, 78, 174, 237–38

  Life, origin of, 229–30

  Limestone, 157; rocks, 32

  Literature, artificial separation of science and, 90–91

  Livestock, inhumane methods of raising, 192, 194–96

  Lizards, 67

  Lobster, 7, 33, 136

  London Dumping Convention (1972), 109n

  Loons, 47

  Lord Howe Island, 69

  Lysenkoism, 210

  McGill University, 137

  McKay, Douglas, 98, 100

  Mackerel, 7, 56, 58–60

  Maine, Gulf of, temperatures of, 135–36

  Maine coast, 114–15, 122. See also Southport Island, Maine

  Mallard(s), 45; Marianas, 73 and 73n

  Mangrove swamps, 114, 134

  Maoris, 68

  Maples, swamp, 48

  Marine Biological Laboratory, 15, 54, 77, 101, 148

  Marshlands, cultivating or managing, 47–49

  Martha’s Vineyard, 17

  Maryland, University of, 14

  Maryland Legislature, 23

  Masefield, John, 77, 148

  Massachusetts coast, 122, 152

  Massachusetts Fish and Game Department, 205

  Massachusetts Pesticide Board, 214

  Mattamuskeet, Lake, 42–43, 44

  Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 41–49

  Maui, island of, 71

  Mauritius, island of, 68

  Mayr, Ernst, 64, 69

  Meadowlarks, 216

  Menhaden, 7, 137

  Merrymeeting Bay, 171

  Metabolites, 144, 145

  Mexico, Gulf of, 138

  Meyer, Agnes, 189

  Michigan State University, 191

  Micronesia, Trust Territory of, 73

  Midway, 72

  Migration, 48; of chimney swift, 24, 25–29; of herring, 36–37; of waterfowl, 168, 171; of whistling swans, 43

  Milky Way, 6

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 12

  Minnows, 21

  Mint, 75

  MIT, 184

  Mites, spider, 214

  Moa, 68

  Mockingbird, 47

  Mohorovicic (Moho) discontinuity, 104

  Mollusks, 7, 10, 145

  Monarchs, 247

  Monsanto Chemical Company, 208

  Moon: full, tides and, 116–17; new, 169, 171

  Moore, Marianne, 90

  Moose, 17 and 17n

  Morison, S. Eliot, 12

  Mosquitoes, 158, 159

  Moss(es), 78, 174; reindeer, 39, 238; Usnea, 39

  Moth, gypsy, 217

  Mountain Lake Sanctuary, 172

  Mouse, meadow, 121

  Muller, H. J., 242–43, 244

  Mullet, 57

  Munro, George C., 74

  Murphy, Robert Cushman, 68

  Museum of Comparative Zoology, 138

  Muskrat, 19

  Mutations, 244

  Mynahs, 71

  Nantucket Channel, 152

  National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 104, 209–10, 213; Committee on Oceanography of, 103

  National Advisory Committee on Radiation, 241

  National Agricultural Chemical Association, 210

  National Audubon Society, 189, 190, 215

  National Aviation Trades Association, 210

  National Bison Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 41

  National Book Award for nonfiction, 90; Carson’s remarks at acceptance of, 90–92

  National Council of the Teachers of English, 164

  National Museum, U.S. (Smithsonian), 63, 136, 137

  National Parks and Wildlife Refuges, 73

  National Park Service, U.S., 99, 123–24

  National Research Council, Pacific Science Board of, 73, 75

  National Symphony Orchestra speech, Carson’s, 83, 88–89

  National Wildlife Restoration Week, 18n, 19

  Nature Conservancy, Maine Chapter of, 172, 174

  Nature Magazine, 24

  Navy, U.S., 73, 82

  NBC Symphony, 83

  Needles, 115

  Nests, birds’, 13; building of, 26–27

  Newagen, 246, 247

  New Yorker, the, 111, 201, 202

  New York Herald-Tribune, the, Book and Author Luncheon Speech, Carson’s, 76–82

  New York Post, the, 204

  New York Times, the, 53, 111, 162

  New Zealand, 68

  Nickel, 10

  Nobska Point, 77, 148

  Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 216

  North American Wildlife Conference, 215

  North Pole, 57

  Nuthatch, brown-headed, 47

  Ocean, middle regions of, 80 and 80n–82

  Ocean floor, 8–11, 60, 236; new discoveries about, 103, 104–6

  Oceanography, 101, 103

  Old-man’s-beard, 39

  Omnibus (TV show), 175–76

  Oregon coast, 115

  Orinoco River, 66

  Orioles, 13; orchard, 47

  Orion, 122

  Orkneys, 86

  Osprey, 38

  Oven-bird, 13

  Owenia fusiformis, 140–41

  Owls, snowy, 58

  Oxford University Press, 53

  Oxygen, introduction of, into atmosphere, 230

  Oyster(s), 5, 145; rock, 120

  Ozone layer, formation of, 230

  Pacific War Memorial (1946), 72–73, 75

  Palau Archipelago, 73

  Paleozoic Era, 78, 116, 118

  Palmetto, 157

  Palms, fanleaf, 71

  Pamakani, 71

  Pamlico Sound, 41, 42, 49

  Parathion, 206

  Parker River Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 41

  Parks, 162; State and National, 124

  Park Service. See National Park Service, U.S.

  Passamaquoddy Bay, 137

  Patagonia, 57

  Peaked Hill Bars, 118; beach at, 119–20

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of, 53, 150

  Pelican, 235; white, 47

  Pennsylvania Federation of Women’s Clubs, 215

  Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 172

  Perch, 21

  Periwinkle(s), 79, 120, 174; common, 79; rough, 79–80

 
Pesticides, 197, 211; attempts to repair battered image of, 202–3; Carson’s address to Garden Club of America on, 211–22; and chemical industry’s funding of research universities, 201, 207–8, 221–22; entry of, into natural food chain, 234–35; genetic damage from, 243; as long-term, widespread contaminants, 233; misuse of, 113, 187, 189, 190–91, 193, 205–6; NAS committee on relations of wildlife to, 209–10; news stories about, 203–5; spraying of, 201, 217, 233–34

  Peterson, Roger Tory, 30, 96

  Petrels, 72

  Pettersson, Otto, 159–60

  Phoebe, 38

  Phosphorescence, in surf, 169–70

  Photosynthesis, 230

  Phytoplankton, 145

  Pigeon, passenger, 16, 17

  Pigs, 74

  Pines, 39, 40, 42, 174

  Pipit, 47

  Plankton, 6–7, 139–40, 143, 144, 145; pesticides in, 235; radioactive materials and, 236–37

  Plover, Pacific Golden, 67

  Plymouth Laboratory, 139

  Pollution, 197; Carson’s lecture on, to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, 228–45; dangers of, 187; of imaginary town (in Silent Spring), 197–200. See also Pesticides

  Polychaete, tube-building, 140–41

  Poppenhager, Don, 155, 156, 157

  Porphyria, 204, 219

  Prawns, 9

  President’s Science Advisory Committee, 201

  Pteropods, 7

  Public Health Service, U.S., 241

  Quail, 216

  Quartz, 139

  Rabbits, 72, 216

  Radioactivity: in Alaskan Eskimos and Scandinavian Lapps, 237, 238; development of, in marine life, 108–9, 236–37. See also Atomic waste

  Radioiodine, entrance of, into food chains, 239–41

  Radiolaria, 10–11

  Radiolarian shell, 10

  Rail(s), 72; black, 47; flightless, 68; Laysan, 71–72

  Rathbun, Mary, 136

  Rat(s), 69–70, 72; water, 21

  RCA Victor records, 83

  Reader’s Digest, 24, 98

  Red Rocks Lake Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 41

  Redstarts, 38

  “Red tides,” 142–43

  Reforestation, 19

  Reindeer, 237

  Research universities, chemical industry’s funding of, 201, 207–8, 221–22

  Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 83

  Robins, 190–91, 216

  Rock Creek Park, 161–62

  Rockweeds, 79, 120, 144, 145, 174

  Rodell, Marie, 63

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 18

  St. Helena, island of, 70

  St. Nicholas League, 12

  St. Nicholas magazine, 12

  Saint Simon Island, Georgia, 129–30

  Saipan, 73–74

  Salmon, 16, 17

  Salt marshes, 120–21, 129

  Samphire, marsh, 121

  Sand: diversity of geologic origin of, 139; purple, 122; reaction of larvae to, 141–42; voice of, 130–31, 132

  Sandalwood, 71

  Sand dollars, 128

  Sanderlings, 57–58, 125–27, 130

  Sandpiper, 56, 57

  Sandstone, 32

  Sargasso Sea, eels seeking, 19–23, 60–62

  Sargassum weed, 19, 20, 22

  Saw grass, 155

  Scattergood, Leslie W., 136–37

  Schaefer, Vincent, 175

  Schmidt, Johannes, 20

  Schweitzer, Albert, 192

  Science(s), 187; artificial separation of literature and, 90–91; biological, 164–67; liaison between industry and, 207–9, 210, 221

  Sea anemones, 5

  Sea lettuce, 145

  Sea Lion Caves, 115

  Sea lions, 115

  Seals, 38–39, 109

  Sea mounts, 106

  Seashore. See Coastline

  Sea slugs, 5

  Sea spiders, 9

  Sea urchins, 7, 122

  Sedges, 238

  Sediments, 105, 106, 236

  Seed, treatment of, with chemicals, 204, 219–20

  Seminole Indians, 157, 158, 159

  Shad, 16, 17, 21

  Sharks, 6, 11, 154; great white, 6

  Shearwaters, 72

  Sheep, 74, 216

  Sheepscot River, 33, 34, 246

  Shell Chemical Company, 208

  Shorebirds, 47, 56, 57, 120, 126

  Shrimps, 5, 59, 82, 127–28; sounds made by, 76, 82

  Sibelius, Jean, 83

  Silica, 10

  Simon and Schuster, 53, 55, 150

  Skimmers, 130

  Skylarks, 71

  Smith, S.I., 136

  Smithsonian, U.S. National Museum of, 63, 136, 137

  Snail(s), 5, 79, 80, 122; pelagic, 10; tree, 157, 158–59; winged, 7

  Snow, C. P., 90

  Songbirds, 216

  Southport Island, Maine, 34–40, 111, 169; “Lost Woods” on, 111, 172–74

  South Trinidad, island of, 68, 70

  Sparrow, 127; fox, 47; song, 38, 47; swamp, 47; white-throated, 47. See also Vesper-sparrow

  Spiders, 66–67, 159

  Sponges, 5, 9, 153

  Spraying, 201, 217, 233–34. See also Pesticides

  Spruce, 39, 40, 118, 171, 174, 247

  Squids, 82, 121

  Stacks, 115

  Starfishes, 5, 7, 59, 80, 153

  Starlings, 24

  Stevens, Christine, 189, 192–93

  Strontium90, 237–38

  Sturgeon, 16

  Sunfish, 21

  Surgeon General, 241

  Susupe, Lake, 73

  Sutton, George Mitsch, 28

  Swan(s): at Mattamuskeet Refuge, 41, 43–44, 46–47, 48; trumpeter, 43, 44; whistling, 41, 43–44; wild, 15–16, 44

  Swift: Asiatic, 27; chimney, migration patterns of, 24, 25–29; Chinese, 26; Vaux’s, 26

  Swinburne, Algernon, 77, 148

  Swordfish, 60

  Syncoryne, 138

  Szady, Ma, 155

  Tahiti, 70

  Tamiami Trail, 155

  Tapotchau, Mt., 73–74

  Teal: blue-winged, 45; green-winged, 45

  Temperatures, warming of, 135–36, 137, 138

  Tern(s), 37, 68; black, 47; Sooty, 72

  Test ban treaty, 242

  Thalidomide, 218

  Theta Sigma Phi, Carson’s speech to, 147–63

  Thoreau, Henry David, 94, 166

  Thrashers, brown, 216

  Thrush(es): hermit, 33, 35, 47; wood, 12, 13, 47

  Tides: full moon and, 116–17; new moon and, 169; red, 142–43

  Tierra del Fuego, 86

  Time, 206

  Tinian, 73

  Titmice, 71

  Todd Point, 247

  Tomlinson, H. M., 172

  Tornado, 182, 184; in Worcester, Mass. (1953), 183–84

  Tortoise, 66, 67

  Toscanini, Arturo, 83

  Toxophene, 235

  Trade Winds, 180

  Trilobites, 117

  Tristan da Cunha, 69–70

  Truman, Bess, 83

  Truman, Harry S., 83

  Tule Lake Refuge (U.S. National Wildlife Refuge), 234–35

  Tunas, 60, 109

  Turbidity currents, 105, 236

  Turkey, 68; wild, 16

  Ulithi Atoll, 72

  Ulva, 145

  Urchins. See Sea urchins

  Utah State Department of Health, 240

  Vancouver, George, 71

  Van Dorn, Irita, 76

  Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 150

  Velsicol Chemical Corporation, 208

  Vesper-sparrow, 13

  Vineyard Sound, 54, 136

  Vireo: red-eyed, 47; white-eyed, 47

  Virginia’s Department of Agriculture, 216

  Volcanoes, submarine, 10, 65

  Wallace, Alfred, 70

  Wallace, George, 191

  Walsh, Bernard, 225

  Warbler(s), 39; Blackburnian, 39; black-throated green, 39–40; myrtle, 39, 47; parula, 39;
prairie, 47; prothonotary, 47

  Washington Hospital Center, 223n

  Washington Post, the, 98, 189; Carson’s letter in, on misuse of pesticides, 189, 190–91

  Waterfowl, 16, 17, 18, 19; migration of, 168, 171; pesticide residues in, 234; refuges, 41, 42–49

  Watson, Mark, 14

  Waves, 85–86; earthquake, 104

  Wax myrtles, 47

  Waxwing, cedar, 47

  Weeks, Edward, 3

  Westinghouse Science Writing Prize, 64

  Whale(s), 6, 11, 109; blue, 6; sounds made by, 76, 82

  Wheat, treatment of, with chemicals, 204, 219–20

  Whelks, 120

  White, E.B., 12

  Wigeon(s), 45; European, 47

  Wildlife, fight for conservation of, 15–19

  Willets, 127, 129, 130

  Williamson, Henry, 22

  Will-o-the-wisps, 170

  Willow leaves, 238

  Wilson, Douglas, 139, 140–42

  Wimpenny, R. S., 145

  Winds: clouds and, 178, 179; jet streams, 185; Trade, 180

  Wisconsin, University of, 208

  Wisconsin Canners Association, 208

  Women’s National Press Club, Carson’s speech to, 201–10

  Woodcock, 204–5

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 76, 80n

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Laboratory, 133

  Wood Thrush, The, 63–64

  World War II, 82, 102; destruction of species in, 72

  Worm(s), 7, 59, 134; annelid, 139; plumed, 128; tube, 5, 6

  Wrens, Carolina, 47

  Yale Review, 64

  Yellow-throat, Maryland, 13

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