Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina vii
... kind . If the present work is read without reference to its ultimate object of supplying facts for the subsequent deduction of principles , it may well seem but a small improvement upon the works of the anecdote - mongers . But if it is ...
... kind . If the present work is read without reference to its ultimate object of supplying facts for the subsequent deduction of principles , it may well seem but a small improvement upon the works of the anecdote - mongers . But if it is ...
Pagina viii
... animal , should be of a particularly marked and unmistakable kind , looking to the end which the action is said to have accomplished . Third , to tabulate all important observations recorded by unknown viii PREFACE .
... animal , should be of a particularly marked and unmistakable kind , looking to the end which the action is said to have accomplished . Third , to tabulate all important observations recorded by unknown viii PREFACE .
Pagina ix
... kind of zoological tree from that which is now given in our diagrams . There is , indeed , a general and , philosophically considered , most important parallelism running through the whole animal kingdom between structural affinity and ...
... kind of zoological tree from that which is now given in our diagrams . There is , indeed , a general and , philosophically considered , most important parallelism running through the whole animal kingdom between structural affinity and ...
Pagina xi
... kind enough to place at my disposal all the notes and clippings on animal intelligence which he has been collecting for the last forty years , together with the original MS . of his wonderfu chapter on ' Instinct . ' This chapter , on ...
... kind enough to place at my disposal all the notes and clippings on animal intelligence which he has been collecting for the last forty years , together with the original MS . of his wonderfu chapter on ' Instinct . ' This chapter , on ...
Pagina xii
... friend so inexpressibly noble , kind , and generous , that even my immense admiration of the naturalist was surpassed by my loving veneration for the man . ] INTRODUCTION • CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING xii PREFACE .
... friend so inexpressibly noble , kind , and generous , that even my immense admiration of the naturalist was surpassed by my loving veneration for the man . ] INTRODUCTION • CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING xii PREFACE .
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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.