 | Constable and co, ltd - 1832 - 960 pages
....in, a popular writer, has justly observed, " There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable than the variety of changes which the Silk Worm undergoes ; but the curious texture of the silken covering with which it surrounds itself... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Butterflies - 1832 - 308 pages
...Pullein, a popular writer, has justly observed, " There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable...the Silkworm undergoes ; but the curious texture of the silken covering with which it surrounds itself when it arrives at the perfection of its animal... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - Insects - 1835 - 332 pages
...300 yards. The latter author thus writes: — "There is scarcely any tiling among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable...changes like those of the silkworm, and the beauty of them in their butterfly state greatly exceeds it; but the covering which they put on before this change... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pages
...comes off at the tail. One author thus writes:—"There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable...changes like those of the silk-worm, and the beauty of them in their butterfly state greatly exceeds it; but the covering which they put on before this change... | |
 | Jean d' Homergue - Mulberry - 1839 - 456 pages
...THEIR MANAGEMENT FOR SALE OR REPRODUCTION THERE is scarcely any thing, amongst the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable than the variety of changes which the silk worm undergoes ; but the curious texture of that silken covering with which it surrounds itself... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...comes off at the tail. One author thus writes: "There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable...changes like those of the silkworm, and the beauty of them in their butterfly state greatly exceeds it ; but the covering which they put on before this change... | |
 | 1843 - 444 pages
...crossing the wings. It has been justly observed: "There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable than the variety of changes i Hosea xiv. 2. which the silk- worm undergoes ; but the curious texture of the silken covering with... | |
 | Clinton G. Gilroy - Engraving - 1845 - 560 pages
...observed by Pullein, a writer on this subject, that " there is scarcely anything among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable...of this class. All the caterpillar kind do, indeed, pass through changes like those of the silk-worm, and the beauty of many in their butterfly state •... | |
 | Insects - 1847 - 180 pages
...Silk, in which the following passage occurs:— " There is scarce anything among the various wonders which the animal creation affords more admirable than...silken covering with which it surrounds itself when it becomes a moth, and arrives at the perfection of its animal life, vastly surpasses what is made by... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Zoology - 1851 - 446 pages
...pleasing reflections on the species under review. " There is scarcely anything, among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable...silken covering with which it surrounds itself when it becomes a moth, and arrives at the perfection of its animal life, vastly surpasses what is made by... | |
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One author thus writes:—"There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable than the variety of changes which the silk-worm undergoes; but the curious texture of that silken covering with which it... 
