 | Medicine - 1853 - 614 pages
...cephalic ganglia — all those wonderful instincts which mimic in their operations the arts of maní There is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects...warehouses ; construct traps in the greatest variety; hunt skilfully; rob and plunder; they poison, sabre, stab, and strangle their enemies. They have social... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1854 - 310 pages
...Sciences Naturelles, tome xviii. p. 233. portion of intelligence. It is observed by a modern writer that " there is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects...them, ventilate them, and close them with admirably fitted swing-doors. They build and store warehouses, construct traps in the greatest variety, hunt... | |
 | 1854 - 664 pages
...small portion of intelligence. It is observed by a modern writer, that there is hardly a mechanieal pursuit in which insects do not excel. They are excellent...tapestry, clean them, ventilate them, and close them with admirablyfitted swing doors. They build and store warehouses, construct traps in the greatest variety,... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1855 - 328 pages
...addition to their instincts, no small portion of intelligence. It is observed by a modern writer that " there is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects...excel. They are excellent weavers, house-builders, archi tects. They make diving-bells, bore galleries, raise vaults, construct bridges. They line their... | |
 | John William Draper - Human anatomy - 1856 - 686 pages
...all those wonderful ^ir ceph«Jk" instincts which mimic in their operation the arts of man ? ganglia. There is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects...tapestry, clean them, ventilate them, and close them witli admirably-fitted swing-doors. They build and store warehouses, construct traps in the greatest... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 324 pages
...addition to their instincts, no small portion )f intelligence. It is observed by a modern writer that " there is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects...them, ventilate them, and close them with admirably fitted swing-doors. They build and store warehouses, construct traps in the greatest variety, hunt... | |
 | English periodicals - 1857 - 548 pages
...passage, which I take from ' Psychological Enquiries :' — " It is observed by a modern writer * that there is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects...them, ventilate them, and close them with admirably fitted swing-doors. They build and store warehouses, construct traps in the greatest variety, hunt... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 360 pages
...hardly a mechanical pursnit in which insects do not excel. They are excellent weavers, honse-bnilders, architects. They make diving-bells, bore galleries, raise vaults, construct bridges. They line their honses with tapestry, clean them, ventilate them, and close them with admirably-fitted swing-doors.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1857 - 556 pages
...'Psychological Enquiries:'—" It is observed by a modem writer ' lliat there is hardly a mechanical pursuit ill which insects do not excel. They are excellent weavers, house-builders, architects. They muke diving-bells, bore galleries, raise vaults, construct bridges. They line their houses wilh tapestry,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 482 pages
...at the enthusiasm with which a modern writer, quoted by Mr. Brodie, kindles up: "There is," says he, "hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects do not...tapestry, clean them, ventilate them, and close them with admirably-fitted swingdoors; they build and store warehouses, construct traps in the greatest variety,... | |
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It is observed by a modern writer that ' there is hardly a mechanical pursuit in which insects do not excel. They are excellent weavers, house-builders, architects. They make diving-bells, bore galleries, raise vaults, construct bridges. They line their... 
