Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... looking to authority alone with some other principles of selection , which , while embracing the enormous class of alleged facts recorded by unknown observers , might be felt to meet the requirements of a reasonably critical method . I ...
... looking to authority alone with some other principles of selection , which , while embracing the enormous class of alleged facts recorded by unknown observers , might be felt to meet the requirements of a reasonably critical method . I ...
Pagina 11
... looking upon instinct ' is merely to exclude the subject from the sphere of inquiry , and so to abstain from any attempt at definition . Innumerable other opinions might be quoted from well - known writers , ' looking upon instinct ' in ...
... looking upon instinct ' is merely to exclude the subject from the sphere of inquiry , and so to abstain from any attempt at definition . Innumerable other opinions might be quoted from well - known writers , ' looking upon instinct ' in ...
Pagina 20
... looking at the ruptured cell , an acti- nophrys made its appearance , and creeping round the cell , at last arrived at the crevice , from which it extricated one of the grains of starch mentioned , and then crept off to a good dis ...
... looking at the ruptured cell , an acti- nophrys made its appearance , and creeping round the cell , at last arrived at the crevice , from which it extricated one of the grains of starch mentioned , and then crept off to a good dis ...
Pagina 21
... looking through a microscope at some Euglena , & c . , which had been placed aside for examination in a watch - glass , my eye fell upon a stalked and triangular acineta ( A. mystacina ? ) , around which an amaba was creeping and ...
... looking through a microscope at some Euglena , & c . , which had been placed aside for examination in a watch - glass , my eye fell upon a stalked and triangular acineta ( A. mystacina ? ) , around which an amaba was creeping and ...
Pagina 57
... looking to all the other observations previously mentioned , there can be no question concern- ing the general fact that ants have the power of commu- nicating with one another . And under subsequent head- ings abundant additional ...
... looking to all the other observations previously mentioned , there can be no question concern- ing the general fact that ants have the power of commu- nicating with one another . And under subsequent head- ings abundant additional ...
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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.