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Growing Up
The Story of How We Become Alive, Are Born and Grow Up
1928
New York: The Macmillan Company
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1928,
By The Macmillan Company.
Set up and electrotyped.
Published January, 1928.
Reprinted March, 1928.
Reprinted April, 1928.
Reprinted June, 1928.
Reprinted October, 1928.
Reprinted December, 1928.
Set up by the Brown Brothers, Linotypers
Printed in the United States of America
By the Cornwall Press
In the preparation of this little book I have consulted many persons. I am particularly indebted for the reading of the manuscript and for much helpful advice to Mrs. de Schweinitz, to Dr. Louise de Schweinitz, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Reed Cary, Miss Grace Marcus, Mr. Samuel Scoville, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Stem; to Dr. Jessie Taft, director of the Department of Child Study of the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania; to Mr. Henry W. Fowler, Associate Curator of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Mr. William E. Meehan, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Aquarium, who read the sections upon fish; Dr. Frederick H. Allen, Miss Goldie Basch, Dr. Phyllis Blanchard, Miss Almena Dawley, Miss Bertha Reynolds, of the staff of the All-Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; Dr. Dan C. Darrow, Instructor in Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Washington University; Miss Elizabeth H. Dexter, Chief Social Worker, Department of Child Guidance, Newark Board of Education; Dr. E. Van Norman Emery, Director of the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic; Dr. M. J. Exner, Director of Educational Measures, the American Social Hygiene Association; Mrs. Roger S. Forbes, President, and Mr. Ralph P. Bridgman, Director, of the Parents' Council of Philadelphia; Dr. Benjamin C. Gruenberg, Managing Director of the American Association for Medical Progress; Miss Betsey Libbey, Miss Frederica Schwartz, and others of my associates in the Family Society of Philadelphia; Mr. Walter H. Magill, Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Clarence E. McClung, Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene; Mr. Alfred F. Whitman, Executive Secretary of the Children's Aid Association of Boston; Dr. Marion E. Kenworthy, Consultant in Psychiatry at the Institute of Child Guidance, New York.
I have also found especially helpful the following books which may prove to be of interest to those who desire to read further in this field—
Wonderbook of Plant Life by J. H. C. Fabre.
Childhood of Animals by P. C. Mitchell.
The Courtship of Animals by W. P. Pycraft.
Contents
| Preface | 7 | |
| Chap. | Page | |
| Growing Up | 13 | |
| I. | Growing to Be a Baby | 17 |
| II. | Where Eggs Grow | 23 |
| III. | Pollen and Sperm | 37 |
| IV. | From an Egg to a Baby | 59 |
| V. | Animals and Babies | 73 |
| VI. | Mating | 91 |
| VII. | Your Story and My Story | 111 |
Illustrations
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