Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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Page vii
... kind . If the present work is read without reference to its ultimate object of supplying facts for the subsequent deduction of principles , it may well seem but a small improvement upon the works of the anecdote - mongers . But if it is ...
... kind . If the present work is read without reference to its ultimate object of supplying facts for the subsequent deduction of principles , it may well seem but a small improvement upon the works of the anecdote - mongers . But if it is ...
Page viii
... animal , should be of a particularly marked and unmistakable kind , looking to the end which the action is said to have accomplished . Third , to tabulate all important observations recorded by unknown viii PREFACE .
... animal , should be of a particularly marked and unmistakable kind , looking to the end which the action is said to have accomplished . Third , to tabulate all important observations recorded by unknown viii PREFACE .
Page ix
... kind of zoological tree from that which is now given in our diagrams . There is , indeed , a general and , philosophically considered , most important parallelism running through the whole animal kingdom between structural affinity and ...
... kind of zoological tree from that which is now given in our diagrams . There is , indeed , a general and , philosophically considered , most important parallelism running through the whole animal kingdom between structural affinity and ...
Page xi
... kind enough to place at my disposal all the notes and clippings on animal intelligence which he has been collecting for the last forty years , together with the original MS . of his wonderful chapter on ' Instinct . ' This chapter , on ...
... kind enough to place at my disposal all the notes and clippings on animal intelligence which he has been collecting for the last forty years , together with the original MS . of his wonderful chapter on ' Instinct . ' This chapter , on ...
Page xii
... noble , kind , and generous , that even my immense admiration of the naturalist was surpassed by my loving veneration for the man . ] INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES xii PREFACE .
... noble , kind , and generous , that even my immense admiration of the naturalist was surpassed by my loving veneration for the man . ] INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES xii PREFACE .
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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.