 | 1842 - 514 pagini
...of the eye-holes, till an opening is made ; then turning round its body by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white...scheme of nature as a crab and a cocoanut tree. The crabs inhabit deep burrows which they excavate beneath the roots of trees, and here they accumulate... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pagini
...round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albummous substance. I think this is as curious a case of instinct...from each other in the scheme of nature as a crab and cocoa-nut tree. — Researches in Geology and Natural History. MEADOW-LEATHER. Professor Kersten, of... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pagini
...of these eye holes till an opening is made, then, turning round its body by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albuminous substance. ' I think,' adds Mr Darwin, ' this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation... | |
 | 1852 - 432 pagini
...eye-holes, till an opening is made. Then, turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and nnrrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albuminous...remote from each other in the scheme of nature, as •: crab and a cocoa-nut. — WILLIAM T. I l:i,i- to make Old Oak. — The appearance of old oukmaybu... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pagini
...of the eye-holes till an opening is made. Then, turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white...scheme of nature, as a crab and a cocoanut tree." 4. Habitation. — Shakspeare has said of the snail, " He carries his house on his head." The same... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 pagini
...nut. I think this as curious a case of instinct as ever was heard of, and likewise of adaptation of structure between two objects apparently so remote...each other in the scheme of nature as a crab and a cocoa-nut-tree. This crab is diurnal in its habits, but every night it is said to pay a visit to the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 584 pagini
...one of these eye-holes till an opening is made. Then, turning its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white...albuminous substance. I think this is as curious a case as I ever heard of, and likewise of adaptation in structure between two objects apparently so remote... | |
 | 1859 - 512 pagini
...of the eye-holes till an opening is made ; then, turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albuminous substance. I think," continues Mr. Darwin, " this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 830 pagini
...of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albuminous substance of the nut. I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever was heard of, and likewise of adaptation of structure between objects apparently so remote from each... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pagini
...these eye-holes, till an opening is made ; then turning round its body by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white...in the scheme of nature as a crab and a cocoa-nut." TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS.— M. Casanova has just brought from Nubia to Hamburg one of the two-horned... | |
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I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation in structure between two objects apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature, as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree. 
