F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

lofty, and remarkable, compared with those of Europe, from the whiteness of their trunks. I see by my notebook, wonderful and beautiful flowering parasites, invariably struck me as the most novel object in these grand scenes. Travelling onwards we passed through tracts of pasturage, much injured by the enormous conical ants' nests, which were nearly twelve feet high. They gave to the plain exactly the appearance of the mud volcanoes at Jorullo, as figured by Humboldt. We arrived at Engenhodo after

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

insect which was abundant. Although the productions of the land are thus scanty, if we look to the waters of the surrounding sea the number of organic beings is indeed infinite. Chamisso has 1 The thirteen species belong to the following orders: In the Coleoptera, a minute Elater; Orthoptera, a Gryllus and a Blatta; Hemiptera, one species; Homoptera, two; Neuroptera, a Chrysopa; Hymenoptera, two ants; Lepidoptera nocturna, a Diop a, and a Pterophorus (?); Diptera, two species. [page] 486 KEELING

F1062    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1891. La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. Trans. by Edmond Barbier. Preface by Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF

, lorsqulil dépasse un peu la moyenne habituelle. En conséqunnce, si on admet les propositions précédentes, qui ne parasssent pas douteuses, il seratt inexplicable que la sélection des femmes les plus belles par les hommss les plus forts de chaque tribu, qui réussiraient en moyenne à élever un plus grand nombre d'en,ants, ne modifiât pas, jusquàà un certann point et à la suite de nombreuses générations, le caractère de la tribu. Lorsqu'on introduit une race étrangère d'animaux domestiques dans un pays

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

breath utterly impossible structure function, c., c., c., but when he had read it he hummed and hawed, and perhaps it was partly conceivable, and then he fell back on the bones of the ear, which were beyond all probability or conceivability. He mentioned a slight blot, which I also observed, that in speaking of the slave-ants carrying one another, you change the species without giving notice first, and it makes one turn back. . . . . . . For myself I really think it is the most interesting book

A316    Pamphlet:     Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen.   Text   Image   PDF

enemies, the wonderful instincts of ants, bees, birds, c. Before Darwin brought forward his theory of Natural Selection the common explanation of all such adaptations was that the adapted objects were especially designed, or created for the position they were found to fill. The innumerable difficulties such an explanation encounters are so trite that I need not detain you by enumerating them. The explanation by Natural Selection, however, encounters no such difficulties. It is able to account for

A2945    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1894. [Recollections of Darwin and John Lubbock]. Darwin's workshop. Bromley and West Kent Telegraph (17 March): 3.   Text

. Blest if these don't seize all the drunken ants that don't belong to their school, and chuck 'em into the water and drowns 'em. But then, just as a lot of bobbies might do, they picks up their own drunken chums and dries 'em and brings 'em round and never hurts 'em. I many time wondered what he did with the 'eaps myself, but people as I drive round 'ere tells me its all in Lubbock's books now. And about his antics with the wasps and bees too. Lots o' people comes down to see this place and Darwin's

A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image

what use they can be in the colony, unless, as Mr. Bates suggests, they are mere baits to be attacked by insect-eating birds, and thus save their more useful companions. These ants devour grubs, white ants, and other soft and helpless insects, and seem to take the place of the foraging ants of America and driver ants of Africa, though they are far less numerous and less destructive. An allied genus, Solenopsis, consists of red ants, which, in the Moluccas, frequent houses, and are a most

A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image

and the ants; those varieties of trees which were in any way distasteful or unsuitable escaping destruction, while the ants were becoming slowly adapted to attack new trees. Thus in time the great majority of native trees have acquired some protection against the ants, while foreign trees, not having been so modified, are more likely to be suitable for their purposes. Mr. Belt carried on war against them for four years to protect his garden in Nicaragua, and found that carbolic acid and

A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image

clearing them of all insect life. Sometimes a band will enter a house, like the driver ants in Africa, and clear it of cockroaches, spiders, centipedes, and other insects. They seem to have no permanent abode, and to be ever wandering about in search of prey, but they make temporary habitations in hollow trees or other suitable places. Perhaps the most extraordinary of all ants are the blind species of Eciton discovered by Mr. Bates, which construct a covered way or tunnel as they march along. On

A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image

III ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS Difficulties of the Subject General Aspect of the Animal Life of Equatorial Forests Diurnal Lepidoptera or Butterflies Peculiar Habits of Tropical Butterflies Ants, Wasps, and Bees Ants Special Relations between Ants and Vegetation Wasps and Bees Orthoptera and other Insects Beetles Wingless Insects General Observations on Tropical Insects Birds: Parrots Pigeons Picari Cuckoos Trogons, Barbets, Toucans, and Hornbills Passeres Reptiles and Amphibia