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
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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