Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... Four Illustrations . §1.50 . V. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY . BY HERBERT SPENCER . $ 1.50 . VI . THE NEW CHEMISTRY . By Professor J. P. COOKE , of Harvard University . With 31 Illustrations . $ 2.00 . VII . ON THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY . By ...
... Four Illustrations . §1.50 . V. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY . BY HERBERT SPENCER . $ 1.50 . VI . THE NEW CHEMISTRY . By Professor J. P. COOKE , of Harvard University . With 31 Illustrations . $ 2.00 . VII . ON THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY . By ...
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... four hours it returned , and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration , for both then started along the same track , and disappeared over the wall.1 In this case the fact must be accepted , seeing that it stands ...
... four hours it returned , and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration , for both then started along the same track , and disappeared over the wall.1 In this case the fact must be accepted , seeing that it stands ...
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... four hours the position of its mate is very much reduced ; while the subsequent communication , if it took place , would only require to have been of the nature of follow me , ' which , as we shall repeatedly find , is a degree of ...
... four hours the position of its mate is very much reduced ; while the subsequent communication , if it took place , would only require to have been of the nature of follow me , ' which , as we shall repeatedly find , is a degree of ...
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... four buckets of water . The marauding parties were at once drawn off from the garden to meet the danger at home , and the whole formi- carium was disorganised , the ants running up and down again in the utmost perplexity . Next day he ...
... four buckets of water . The marauding parties were at once drawn off from the garden to meet the danger at home , and the whole formi- carium was disorganised , the ants running up and down again in the utmost perplexity . Next day he ...
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... four months it was still recog- nised as a friend , and caressed by its previous fellow- citizens after the manner in which ants show friendship , viz . , by stroking antenn¿ . Sir John Lubbock , after re- peating and fully confirming ...
... four months it was still recog- nised as a friend , and caressed by its previous fellow- citizens after the manner in which ants show friendship , viz . , by stroking antenn¿ . Sir John Lubbock , after re- peating and fully confirming ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page i - ANIMAL LIFE AS AFFECTED BY THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.
Page 359 - ... knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him ; kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick) and, by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature...
Page 11 - For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor from any laws of mechanism, but, according to the best notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.