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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

moth, mentioned on a former occasiona, may perhaps have been produced by the same cause. Bees are also subject to vertigo, which has been attributed to their eating poisonous honeyb but may not this disease in all these cases arise from some derangement of the nervous system? One of the ants which was so affected had lost one of its antenn ; but as this was not the case with the others, no great stress is to be laid upon the circumstance. Huber does not inform us whether those attacked by this

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

, belong to the Hymenoptera Order, and chiefly to the Linnean genus Ichneumon. The insects of this Order have been denominated Principes, because of the wonderful instincts of ants, wasps, bees, and other gregarious tribes that belong to it; and they merit a name of honour not less for the benefits that they confer upon mankind, by keeping within their proper limits the various insect-destroyers of the produce of the globe. It deserves notice that when these latter increase to a degree to

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

they wander far from home, and do not return till late in the evening, it is a prognostic to be depended upon, that the following day will be fine: but if they remain near their habitations, and are seen frequently going and returning, although no other indication of wet should be discoverable, clouds will soon arise and rain come on. Ants also are observed to be excellently gifted in this respect: though they daily bring out their larv to sun them, they are never overtaken by sudden showersa

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

his faculties receive their due cultivation and direction, can avoid regarding him as superior to the rest of the animal creation? And what unsophisticated mind, not entangled in the trammels of system, when it surveys the industry, the various proceedings, and almost miraculous works that have been laid before you, the waxen palaces of the bee, the paper cottages of the wasp and hornet, the crowded metropolis of the white ants, the arts, the manufactures, and stratagems of other insects, the

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

regard to the Hymenoptera and Diptera the analogy is undisputed, and must strike every beholder; and one would almost say it was a real affinity, were it not that the resemblance is not only general between Order and Order, but that almost every Hymenopterous tribe has its counterpart amongst the Diptera; the saw-fliesa for instance, the ichneumons, the various false-waspsb, the false-beesc, the bees, the humble-bees, the ants, c., severally find there a representative that wears its livery

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

In this arrangement of the tribes, as he calls them, of Mandibulata, Mr. MacLeay sets out from the Coleoptera, which he distributes, according to the supposed typical forms of their larv , into five minor groups, sufficiently noticed on a former occasiona. From this tribe or Order he proposes to pass by Atractocerus to the osculant Order Strepsiptera, and from thence by Myrmecodes Latr. and the Ants to the Hymenoptera. From hence he next proceeds to his Trichoptera; in which, as we have seena

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

places in the spring, you may perhaps have the good fortune to meet with a Stylops. It is singular, that some insects choose, for their own residence or that of their young, the hardest and most trodden pathways. Thus, some ants will build their subterranean apartments under gravel walks; and so do many species of the genus Halictusb, the habits and economy of which have been so ably detailed by M. Walckena rc: Cerceris also, and other Hymenoptera, will choose such places, however public, for the

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

of the two preceding Orders, are numerous, short, and freei. In the ants and ichneumons there is an approach to a gizzardk. In the wasp and humble-bee the stomach is very long, with muscular rings surrounding itl. In this Order the larv at first have no lower intestines and void no excrementm, but as they approach to the pupa state one begins to appearn. a Ramdohr t. i. f. 1. 5. 9. b Ibid. f. 2, 3, 4. 7, 8. 12. c Ibid. f. l. e, f. 5. c. f. 9. g h. d Ibid. f. 1. 9. k. e Ibid. t. xv. f. 3, 4. t

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

Good (John Mason, M.D.) Anniversary Oration, delivered March 8th, 1808, before the Medical Society of London. Gould (William) An account of English ants. London 1747. 12mo. Gravenhorst (J. L. C.) Coleoptera Microptera. Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot extant in collectionibus Brunsvicensium. Brunsvig 1802. 8vo. Grew(Nehemiah) Mus um Regalis Societatis, or a catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the R. Society, and preserved at Gresham College, c

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

. 161. Dors, ii. 219, 310; iii. 332. Dragon, flying, wings represent mid-legs of insects, iii. 593; iv. 418. Dragon-flies, devourers of insects, i. 273: remarkable apparatus of larva, c., iii. 125. Drone, or male bee, ii. 171. Drum of the cicada, ii. 405: of grasshoppers, 399. Dyes afforded by insects, i. 315. Earwigs, common, i. 358: giant, ii. 237: lesser, iv. 514. Education, effects of on ants and other insects, ii. 87; iv. 22. Eggs of insects, how fecundated, iv. 158: exclusion, iii. 66

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

. 229. Gecko (lizard), ii. 325. Geometers or surveyors, a kind of caterpillar, ii. 292; iv. 188. Gesner, iv. 429. Gizzard of insects, iv. 99. Glow-worm, common, ii. 410; iv. 143: Italian, ii. 425. Gnat, agaric, ii. 7: common, i. 112; ii. 285; iii. 81: gall, i. 208, 458: horse, 147: wheat, i. 28, 170: winter, ii. 443. Goliath beetles belt the globe, iv. 493. Gooseberry, insects that attack, i. 195. Gossamer webs, ii. 334. Gould (Rev.W.), the historian of English ants, ii. 48. Grass, insects that

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A707 Beagle Library: Cleaveland, Parker. 1816. An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology: being an introduction to the study of these sciences, and designed for the use of pupils,-for persons attending lectures on these subjects,-and as a companion for travellers in the United States of America. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard; Cambridge: University Press. Text

(Geological situation.) Amber appears to have been hitherto found only in alluvial deposites of sand, gravel, c. and frequently on the margin of the sea. It generally occurs in small, detached masses, and is often connected with bituminous wood, brittle lignite, or jet, and sometimes adheres to these substances. It is found also in some coal mines, or in beds of clay, or is associated with pyrites. It is sometimes deposited on the shore by the waves of the sea. Flies, ants, and other insects

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A845 Beagle Library: Abel, Clarke. 1818. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the Court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Text

could prudently drink. Such beverage would have been more grateful, had it partaken less of a local character; but as a traveller, I did not scruple to swallow, at every draught, a considerable number of ants, and a proportionate quan D [page] 1

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A597.4 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 4. Text

the beginning of the sixteenth century in the island of St. Domingo, when troops of ants ravaged the fine plains of La Vega, and the rich possessions of the order of St. Francis. The monks, after having in vain burnt the larv of the ants, and had recourse to fumigations, advised the inhabitants to choose by lot a saint, who would serve as an abagado contra las hormigas*. The honour of the choice fell on St. Saturnin; and the ants disappeared, as soon as the first festival of this saint was

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A597.5a Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. Into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 5, part 1. Text

monks. Two young women came down from their hammocks, to prepare for us cakes of cassava. We inquired of them by an interpreter, whether the soil of the island were fertile; they answered, that cassava grew poorly, but that it was a good land for ants, and food was not wanting. In fact, these vachacos furnish subsistence to the Indians of the Rio Negro and the Guainia. They do not eat the ants from luxury, but because, according to the expression of the missionaries, the fat of ants (the white

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A597.5b Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. Into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 5, part 2. Text

yesca or touchwood of ants of the Upper Oroonoko (the animal is found, we were assured, only South of Atures) will one day become an article of trade. This substance is very superior to the ants' nests of Cayenne, which are employed in the hospitals of Europe, but can rarely be procured. On the 7th of June we quitted with regret father Ramon Bueno. Among the ten missionaries, whom we had found in different parts of the vast extent of Guyana, he alone appeared to me to be attentive to all that

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A597.5a Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. Into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 5, part 1. Text

rained long before sunrise; and the araguate monkeys had warned us by their lengthened howlings of the approach of the shower, long before the noise of the cataract increased. May the 14th. The moschettoes, and still more the ants, drove us from the shore before two in the morning. We had till then believed, that the latter did not crawl along the cords, by which the hammocks are usually suspended; but whether this opinion were erroneous, or the ants fell upon us from the tops of the trees, it

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A738.02 Beagle Library: Aubuisson de Voisins, Jean Francois d'. 1819. Traité de géognosie: exposé des connaissances actuelles sur la constitution physique et minérale du globe terrestre. 2 vols. Strasbourg et Paris: F.G.Levrault. vol. 2. Text

assemblage de prismes colonnaires est celui que pr sente la c te septentrionale de l'Irlande, et qui est connu sous le nom de chauss e des G ants. Il fait partie d'un terrain basaltique compos de diverses assises. Aupr s du village de Bushmill, une d'elles, ayant une quinzaine de m tres d' paisseur, non couverte, mais flanqu e d'assises sup rieures, s'avance dans la mer comme une jet e naturelle. Sa superficie, form e de la t te des prismes qui la composent, et qui est le sol sur lequel on marche, pr

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A597.1 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. Into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol.s 1 and 2. Text Image

chives, on account of the continual devastations of the termites, or white ants, contain no document, that goes back farther than a hundred and fifty years, we are unacquainted with the precise dates of the ancient earthquakes. We only know, that, in times nearer our own, the year 1776 was at the same time the most fatal to the colonists, and the most remarkable for the natural history of the country. A drought, like those which are felt at times in the islands of Cape Verd, had reigned during

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A597.4 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 4. Text

rise in the openings, and some scattered groups of guarumo, or cecropia with silvery leaves, the trunks of which, of small thickness, are of a black colour toward the summit, as if they had been burnt by the oxygen of the atmosphere. We are surprised to find so noble a tree, which has the port of the theophrasta and the palm-tree, bearing generally only eight or ten terminal leaves. The ants, that inhabit the trunk of the guarumo, or jarumo, and destroy the interior cells, seem to impede it's