The Naturalist in NicaraguaThe Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 344 pages The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published.--Charles Darwin, 1874. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read, this classic book describes the geography, geology, ecology, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of Nicaragua in the nineteenth century. Many of Belt's detailed and accurate observations were not confirmed until decades later--for example, the fact that certain plants have standing armies of ants that defend them. |
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Page xii
... for those observations on tropical nature which his longer stay in Nicaragua gave rise to , and which are recorded in this book . Introduction xiii After his return from Central America , his xii The Naturalist in Nicaragua.
... for those observations on tropical nature which his longer stay in Nicaragua gave rise to , and which are recorded in this book . Introduction xiii After his return from Central America , his xii The Naturalist in Nicaragua.
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... America , with their dull , lazy inhabitants , to possess any novelty . There is little in the book that can be called adventure , and still less of geographical discovery . And yet , the many and highly diversified phases in which life ...
... America , with their dull , lazy inhabitants , to possess any novelty . There is little in the book that can be called adventure , and still less of geographical discovery . And yet , the many and highly diversified phases in which life ...
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... America . It would , however , lead us too far away from the present book to enter into even a cursory examination of his views upon the glacial period , and those readers who desire to pursue the matter will find assistance for doing ...
... America . It would , however , lead us too far away from the present book to enter into even a cursory examination of his views upon the glacial period , and those readers who desire to pursue the matter will find assistance for doing ...
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... America by Mr. W. L. Sclater would have much delighted Belt had he come across it . In that region of the world the leaf- cutting ants present a very characteristic appearance as the column proceeds homewards , each ant carrying a piece ...
... America by Mr. W. L. Sclater would have much delighted Belt had he come across it . In that region of the world the leaf- cutting ants present a very characteristic appearance as the column proceeds homewards , each ant carrying a piece ...
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... America ; why gold veins grow poorer as they descend into the earth ; why whirlwinds rotate in opposite directions in the two hemi- spheres ; why the earthenware vessels of the Indians are rounded at the bottom and require to be placed ...
... America ; why gold veins grow poorer as they descend into the earth ; why whirlwinds rotate in opposite directions in the two hemi- spheres ; why the earthenware vessels of the Indians are rounded at the bottom and require to be placed ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
CHAPTER IV | 37 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 68 |
CHAPTER VII | 81 |
CHAPTER VIII | 98 |
CHAPTER XII | 165 |
CHAPTER XIII | 179 |
CHAPTER XIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XV | 211 |
CHAPTER XVI | 224 |
CHAPTER XVII | 236 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XIX | 258 |
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