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 vii
... natural history , in Nicaragua and elsewhere , were the fruit of his leisure . The book is direct and vivid in style , and is full of description and suggestive discussions . With reference to it my father wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker ...
... natural history , in Nicaragua and elsewhere , were the fruit of his leisure . The book is direct and vivid in style , and is full of description and suggestive discussions . With reference to it my father wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker ...
Page x
... natural desire , to explore and understand the ways of science . I am ambitious of doing something that will deserve the praise or excite the admiration of mankind . " When the praise and admiration came , no one could have been more ...
... natural desire , to explore and understand the ways of science . I am ambitious of doing something that will deserve the praise or excite the admiration of mankind . " When the praise and admiration came , no one could have been more ...
Page xii
... 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 life , and to ...
... 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 life , and to ...
Page xvi
... natural surroundings . Nor is it neces- sary in order to attain this invisibility that the colouring should be really dull and plain . It all depends upon the habitat . Mr. Wallace has described " a South American goatsucker which rests ...
... natural surroundings . Nor is it neces- sary in order to attain this invisibility that the colouring should be really dull and plain . It all depends upon the habitat . Mr. Wallace has described " a South American goatsucker which rests ...
Page xviii
... of course , be understood that the mimicry is unconscious , the result , as in the cases of cryptic resemblance , having been brought Introduction xix about by natural selection — the less perfect xviii The Naturalist in Nicaragua.
... of course , be understood that the mimicry is unconscious , the result , as in the cases of cryptic resemblance , having been brought Introduction xix about by natural selection — the less perfect xviii The Naturalist in Nicaragua.
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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The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of ... Thomas Belt No preview available - 2018 |
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