Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... YOUNG , Professor of Astronomy in the College of New Jersey . With numerous Illustrations . $ 2.00 . New York : D. APPLETON & CO . , 1 , 3 , & 5 Bond Street . The International Scientific Series .- ( Continued . ) XXXV.
... YOUNG , Professor of Astronomy in the College of New Jersey . With numerous Illustrations . $ 2.00 . New York : D. APPLETON & CO . , 1 , 3 , & 5 Bond Street . The International Scientific Series .- ( Continued . ) XXXV.
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... young child would not so quickly learn to do so in virtue of its own individual experience alone ; and as the action cannot be attri- buted to any process of conscious inference , it is not rational ; but we have seen that it is not ...
... young child would not so quickly learn to do so in virtue of its own individual experience alone ; and as the action cannot be attri- buted to any process of conscious inference , it is not rational ; but we have seen that it is not ...
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... young ciliated monadic germs issued forth , one after another , from the dehis- cent spore - cell , the actinophrys remained by it and caught every one of them , even to the last , when it retired to another part of the field , as if ...
... young ciliated monadic germs issued forth , one after another , from the dehis- cent spore - cell , the actinophrys remained by it and caught every one of them , even to the last , when it retired to another part of the field , as if ...
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... young acineta , tender , anl without poisonous tentacles ( for they are not developed at birth ) , just ready to make its exit from the parent , an exit which takes place so quickly , and is followed by such rapid bounding move- ments ...
... young acineta , tender , anl without poisonous tentacles ( for they are not developed at birth ) , just ready to make its exit from the parent , an exit which takes place so quickly , and is followed by such rapid bounding move- ments ...
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... young ones until the moment when , some days after arriving at maturity , they were introduced into the nest ; and yet in all ten cases they were undoubtedly recog- nised as belonging to the community . It seems to me , therefore , to ...
... young ones until the moment when , some days after arriving at maturity , they were introduced into the nest ; and yet in all ten cases they were undoubtedly recog- nised as belonging to the community . It seems to me , therefore , to ...
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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.