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
... reason of its appreciation by such men as Darwin and Hooker and Lyall , Huxley , and Wallace , with other leaders of the scientific world of that day , might be quoted to the same effect — and to give some particulars of the author's ...
... reason of its appreciation by such men as Darwin and Hooker and Lyall , Huxley , and Wallace , with other leaders of the scientific world of that day , might be quoted to the same effect — and to give some particulars of the author's ...
Page x
... reason of his success . Belt's " leisure hours " were soon more numerous than he had anticipated when recording his determination to devote them to natural history . Already his health had shown signs of giving way , and presently there ...
... reason of his success . Belt's " leisure hours " were soon more numerous than he had anticipated when recording his determination to devote them to natural history . Already his health had shown signs of giving way , and presently there ...
Page xiii
... reason for all he saw . Having found or imagined one , he went on to make fresh observa- tions , and sought out new facts to see how they accorded with his supposed cause of the phenomena . The Naturalist in Nicaragua has therefore a ...
... reason for all he saw . Having found or imagined one , he went on to make fresh observa- tions , and sought out new facts to see how they accorded with his supposed cause of the phenomena . The Naturalist in Nicaragua has therefore a ...
Page xx
... reason " and supposed to act as its substitute in the lower orders . In reference to their methods of obtaining food , ants have been classified as hunting , pastoral , and agricultural , " three types , " as Lord Avebury remarks ...
... reason " and supposed to act as its substitute in the lower orders . In reference to their methods of obtaining food , ants have been classified as hunting , pastoral , and agricultural , " three types , " as Lord Avebury remarks ...
Page xxi
... reasons are proposed : —why the scarlet - runners which flowered so profusely in his garden never produced a single pod ; why the banana and sugar - cane are probably not indigenous to America ; why gold veins grow poorer as they ...
... reasons are proposed : —why the scarlet - runners which flowered so profusely in his garden never produced a single pod ; why the banana and sugar - cane are probably not indigenous to America ; why gold veins grow poorer as they ...
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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