 | 1863 - 580 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I...Formicarium or ant-colony, and all the varied' activity of ant life, are directed to one main purpose, — the perpetuation and dissemination of the species.... | |
 | John George Wood - 1865 - 708 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my lingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine." The subterranean galleries which these creatures form are of almost incredible extent — so vast, indeed,... | |
 | 1865 - 610 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine.' The naturalist traveller, in the midst of much that interests and delights him, has to put up with a great... | |
 | 1866 - 900 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine." The naturalist traveller, in the midst of much that interests and delights him, has to put up with a great... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 732 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine." The subterranean galleries which these creatures form are of almost incredible extent — so vast, indeed,... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 168 lehte
...dimculty_jn 'Securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I...perpetuation and dissemination of the species. Most of the labor which we see performed by the workers has for its end the sustenance and welfare of the young... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 176 lehte
...jn "securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine. The whole arrangement of a Formicnrium, or ant-colony, and all the varied activity of ant-life, are directed to one main purpose... | |
 | John George Wood - 1882 - 110 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine.' The subterranean galleries which these creatures form are of almost incredible extent — so vast, indeed,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1892 - 702 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine." The subterranean galleries which these creatures form are of almost incredible extent — so vast, indeed,... | |
 | 1863 - 580 lehte
...difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never saw them under any other circumstances than those here related, and what their special functions may be I cannot divine. "The whole arrangement of a Formicavium or ant-colony, and all the varied activity of ant life, are directed to one main purpose,... | |
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... creatures from the cavernous depths of the mine reminded me, when I first observed them, of the Cyclopes of Homeric fable. They were not very pugnacious, as I feared they would be, and I had no difficulty in securing a few with my fingers. I never... 
