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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... branch of that vast subject . As this is a subject on which I intend to devote my leisure hours during the greater part if not the whole of my lifetime , I consider it to be of the greatest importance that I should lay a good foundation ...
... branch of that vast subject . As this is a subject on which I intend to devote my leisure hours during the greater part if not the whole of my lifetime , I consider it to be of the greatest importance that I should lay a good foundation ...
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... branches of natural science for which the locality offered the greatest opportunity . In Nova Scotia he began those investigations into the cause and phenomena of the glacial period which were to be the study of the last years of his ...
... branches of natural science for which the locality offered the greatest opportunity . In Nova Scotia he began those investigations into the cause and phenomena of the glacial period which were to be the study of the last years of his ...
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... branches of scientific inquiry with un- flagging ardour ; and he had the faculty of putting the results of these inquiries in a clear , direct form , rendered the more attractive by its simplicity and absence of any effort at fine ...
... branches of scientific inquiry with un- flagging ardour ; and he had the faculty of putting the results of these inquiries in a clear , direct form , rendered the more attractive by its simplicity and absence of any effort at fine ...
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... branch and form a perfect stalk to the leaf , which is supported in its place by the claws of the middle pair of feet which are slender and inconspicuous . The irregular outline of the wings gives exactly the perspective effect of a ...
... branch and form a perfect stalk to the leaf , which is supported in its place by the claws of the middle pair of feet which are slender and inconspicuous . The irregular outline of the wings gives exactly the perspective effect of a ...
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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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