Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... Nature , Influences , Uses , etc. By M. C. COOKE , M. A. , LL . D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley , M. A. , F. L. S. With 109 Illustrations . $ 1.50 . 16. THE LIFE AND GROWTH OF LANGUAGE . DWIGHT WHITNEY , of Yale College . $ 1.50 ...
... Nature , Influences , Uses , etc. By M. C. COOKE , M. A. , LL . D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley , M. A. , F. L. S. With 109 Illustrations . $ 1.50 . 16. THE LIFE AND GROWTH OF LANGUAGE . DWIGHT WHITNEY , of Yale College . $ 1.50 ...
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... NATURE OF LIGHT , with a General Account of Physical Optics . By Dr. EUGENE LOMMEL . With 188 Illustrations and a Table of Spectra in Chromo - lithography . $ 2.00 . 19. ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATES . By Monsieur VAN BENEDEN . With 83 ...
... NATURE OF LIGHT , with a General Account of Physical Optics . By Dr. EUGENE LOMMEL . With 188 Illustrations and a Table of Spectra in Chromo - lithography . $ 2.00 . 19. ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATES . By Monsieur VAN BENEDEN . With 83 ...
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... Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day . With Diagrams . By Hon . RALPH ABERCROMBY . $ 1.75 . 59. ANIMAL MAGNETISM . By ALFRED BINET and CHARLES FÉRÉ , Assistant Physician at the Salpêtrière . $ 1.50 . 60. INTERNATIONAL LAW , with ...
... Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day . With Diagrams . By Hon . RALPH ABERCROMBY . $ 1.75 . 59. ANIMAL MAGNETISM . By ALFRED BINET and CHARLES FÉRÉ , Assistant Physician at the Salpêtrière . $ 1.50 . 60. INTERNATIONAL LAW , with ...
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... Nature , have at least as great a claim to accurate classification as those phenomena of structure which constitute the sub- ject - matter of Comparative Anatomy . Leaving aside , therefore , the reflection that within the last twenty ...
... Nature , have at least as great a claim to accurate classification as those phenomena of structure which constitute the sub- ject - matter of Comparative Anatomy . Leaving aside , therefore , the reflection that within the last twenty ...
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... nature and circumstances of the inquiry would permit , to suppress anecdote . Nevertheless , although I have nowhere introduced anecdotes for their own sake , I have found it unavoidable not to devote much the largest part of the ...
... nature and circumstances of the inquiry would permit , to suppress anecdote . Nevertheless , although I have nowhere introduced anecdotes for their own sake , I have found it unavoidable not to devote much the largest part of the ...
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Pagina 140 - ... the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Pagina 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression, as it was not possible to misinterpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his teeth, and pull it with all his force.
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.