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Acknowledgments xi Foreword xv Editor’s Note xix Introduction 1 1. Foreword to the 1925 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog 80 2. “Zoological Introduction” to Between Pacific Tides 84 3. “The Philosophy of ‘Breaking Through’” 89 4. “A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry” 105 5. “Essay on Non-teleological Thinking” 119 6. “Verbatim Transcription of Notes of Gulf of California Trip, March–April 1940” 134 7. “Thesis and Materials for a Script on Mexico” 202 8. “Outline and Conspectus” for a Book on the Mandated Islands 215 9. “Transcript of Summer 1945 and 1946 Notes Based on Trips to the Outer Shores, West Coast of Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and So On” 222 10. “Investigator Blames Industry, Nature for Shortage” 324 Epilogue 331 Living at the Lab with My Father Memoir by Ed Ricketts Jr. 333 Early Days: Nicknames and Such Memoir by Nancy Ricketts 336 Works Cited 341 Index 347 Contents ...

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