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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

Myristicace , Leaves not dotted. A. R. W. 2 The ants store these leaves in extensive underground cavities, where fungi grow on them on which the ants feed (see Bates and Belt). A. R. W. [page] 6

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

plant-structures against enemies of various kinds unbidden guests. Nor was he aware of Belt's remarkable explanation of the use to the plant of one of the most remarkable of these ant-structures the bull's-horn thorns of a species of acacia. He shows that the ants encouraged by these structures to inhabit the plants are stinging species, are very pugnacious, and thus protect the foliage both from browsing mammals, from other insects, and even from the large leaf-cutting ants.1 In a later letter

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

growing, ever touched by leaf-cutting ants. In the few cases, however, where the secretion is slightly but pleasantly bitter, and wholesome, as in the Orange, the leaves are quite to their taste. At a farm house on the Trombetas1 I was shown orange-trees which had been entirely denuded in a single night by Sa ba ants. Various expedients are resorted to by the inhabitants of Sa ba-infested lands to protect their fruit-trees, such as a small moat, kept constantly filled with water, around each tree

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

Government Aid to Science, ii. 55 59; his connection with Mr. Augustus Mongredien, ii. 60; W. Wilson's letter to, ii. 62; letter from Dr. Spruce on the modifications in plant structure produced by the agency of ants, ii. 64; letter from Dr. Spruce on aromatic leaves, ii. 65; on leafcutting ants, ii. 69; letter from Dr. Spruce on coloration of edible fruits, ii. 71; reminiscences of Dr. Purland, ii. 75 83; his connection with Mr. Samuel Butler, ii. 83 86; his criticism of Mr. Houghton, ii. 87 89; goes

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

. Now leaf-cutting ants are unknown in the Andes; whence I infer that, although the presence of a pungent smell and taste may be [page] 6

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

which were in some danger of extermination by insect and other enemies that would develop the various forms of protection by oil-glands, or hairs, or spines, or by attracting stinging ants; while many which existed in great numbers and over wide areas, and which [page] 7

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

purposes more useful than the other! Mr. Dury had a very fine collection of land and freshwater shells from all parts of the States, and I spent one morning looking over them. They were exceedingly numerous, and of curious forms, many having strange contortions of the lips, supposed to be for the purpose of protection against the smaller birds, ants, etc. The freshwater shells mostly mussels (Unionid ) were wonderfully fine and varied, some curiously tubercled, some with ribs, others with long spines

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

and Hopes for the Immediate Future, by A. R. Wallace, quoted, ii. 221 223 Antiquity of Man, The, by Sir Charles Lyell, i. 426, 430 Ants, the effect of, on plants, ii. 64 71 Apparitions, articles by A. R. Wallace, published in The Arena, ii. 210 Appreciation of the Past Century, by A. R. Wallace, in The Morning Leader, ii. 220 Arctic Plants in the Southern Hemisphere and on Isolated Mountain-tops within the Tropics, differences of opinion between Darwin and A. R. Wallace on, ii. 20, 387 Arena, The

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

Sargasso Sea described, i. 268 Sargant, W. L., his book on Robert Owen and his Social Philosophy, i. 95 Sargent, Colorado, ii. 177 Sarn Helen, old Roman road, i. 251 Satirist, The, character of, i. 127 Sa ba ants, ii. 66 69 Savage, Rev. Minot J., author of Can Telepathy explain? ii. 337. Sayce, Messrs., land surveyors, William Wallace articled to, i. 24, 136; William and A. R. Wallace obtain work with, i. 141, 142 Schopenhauer, quoted, see note, ii. 386 Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural, The

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

. 3rd ed. 8vo. London, 1823. 4th ed....by R. Allan. 8vo. London, 1837. 117 See Conybeare (Rev. W. D.). 107 Physicus, pseud. A candid examination of Theism. See G. J. Romanes. 12 Pickard-Cambridge (Rev. O.). See Moggridge (J. Traherne). Supplement to 'Harvesting Ants,' c. 8vo. London, 1874. 102 Pickering (Charles). The Races of Man. New ed. (Bohn's illustr. Library.) 8vo. London, 1850. 124 Pictet (Fran ois Jules). Trait l mentaire de Pal ontologie. Tomes 1, 3. 8vo. Gen ve, 1844 45. 126 Trait de

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

, 1841. [2 copies] 67 An Introduction to the Birds of Australia. 8vo. London, 1848. 127 An Introduction to the Trochilidæ, or family of Humming-Birds. 8vo. London, 1861. 127 Handbook to the Birds of Australia. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1865. 117 An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain. 8vo. London, 1873. 127 Gould (Rev. William). An account of English Ants. 8vo. London, 1747. 95 Graba (Carl Julian). Tagebuch, gef hrt auf einer Reise nach F r im Jahre 1828. 8vo. Hamburg, 1830. 15 Grandeau (Louis

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

metamorphoses of Insects. (Nature Series.) 8vo. London, 1874. 102 Addresses, political and educational. 8vo. London, 1879. 40 Scientific Lectures. 8vo. London, 1879. 40 Chapters in Popular Natural History. 8vo. London (1882). 26 Ants, Bees and Wasps. 4th ed. 8vo. London, 1882. 11 *The Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals. 8vo. London, 1888. 11 Lucae (Johann C. G.). Zur Statik und Mechanik der Quadrupeden (Felis und Lemur). (Herrn Geh. Sanit tsrath Dr Georg Varrentrapp...f nfzigj hrigen Doctor

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

*Moffat (C. B.). See More (Alex. G.). Life and Letters of A. G. M. 8vo. Dublin, 1898. 123 Moggridge (J. Traherne). Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders. 8vo. London, 1873. 102 Supplement...with specific descriptions of the Spiders, by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. 8vo. London, 1874. 102 Mohl (Hugo von). Ueber den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen. 4to. T bingen, 1827. 44 *Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts. 4to. T bingen, 1845. Ne Principles of the Anatomy and

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A331 Book: Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Text Image

mimicked by other insects as the sand-wasps, ordinary wasps and bees. Thus on Feb. 17, 1901, Guy A. K. Marshall captured, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, three similar species of ants (Hymenoptera) with a bug (Hemiptera) and a Locustid (Orthoptera), the two latter mimicking the former. All the insects, seven in number, were caught on a single plant, a small bushy vetch.1 This is an interesting recent example from South Africa, and large numbers of others might be added—the observations of many

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A162 Book: Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

illustration to show how imposing the difference between the two kinds of workers in one species would seem if we translated it into human terms. In regard to the Driver ants (Anomma) we must picture to ourselves a piece of work, for instance the building of a house, being carried on by two kinds of workers, of which one group was five feet four inches high, the other sixteen feet high1. Although the ant is a small animal as compared with man or with the Irish Elk, the soldier with its

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A162 Book: Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

naturalists in many lands; but nearly all of them known since that general awakening of interest in the subject which was inspired by the great hypotheses of H. W. Bates and Fritz M ller. We find, however, that Burchell had more than once recorded the mimetic resemblance to ants. An extremely ant-like bug (the larva of a species of Alydus) in his Brazilian collection is labelled 1141, with the date December 8, 1826, when Burchell was at the Rio das Pedras, Cubat o, near Santos. In the note

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A162 Book: Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

ichneumon or wasp, of which it has the appearance. The formidable, well-defended ants are as freely mimicked by other insects as the sand-wasps, ordinary wasps and bees. Thus on February 17, 1901, Guy A. K. Marshall captured, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, three similar species of ants (Hymenoptera) with a bug (Hemiptera) and a Locustid (Orthoptera), the two latter mimicking the former. All the insects, seven in number, were caught on a single plant, a small bushy vetch1. This is an interesting recent

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A331 Book: Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Text Image

Annals of Botany, 97 n. 1, 102 n. 2 Anosia, see also 'Danaida'; 154-8, 158 n. 3; a recent colonist of Fiji, c., 155;-plexippus, 152 n. 1, 154, 158-9, 158 n. 3, 161-4, 168-73, 177, 204-5; a foreign element in n. World, 204. Ansted, D. T., Darwin to, 131. Antagonism falsely assumed between science and literature, 79-83. antenor, Pharm., of Madagascar, 177. Ants, as models for mimicry, 115-18. Apatura, mimicking Limenitis, 175-6 Apocyneae, 217; capturing Diptera, 225. Aposematic colours, 110-12

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A331 Book: Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Text Image

appears to be somewhat less wasp-like than the British beetle. The specimen bears the number '1188', and the date March 27, 1827, when Burchell was collecting in the neighbourhood of St. Paulo. Turning to the corresponding number in the Brazilian notebook we find this record: 'It runs rapidly like an ichneumon or wasp, of which it has the appearance.' The formidable, well-defended ants are as freely 1 Poulton, The Colours of Animals, London, 1890, 249, 250. [page] 116 VALUE OF COLOU

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A331 Book: Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Text Image

genera and orders,' Feb. 15, 1829. Of another Brazilian bug, which is not to be found in his collection, and cannot therefore be precisely identified, he wrote: 'Cimex. .. Nature seems to have intended it to imitate a Sphex, both in colour and the rapid palpitating and movement of the antennae,' Nov. 15, 1826. At the same time it is impossible not to feel the conviction that Burchell felt the advantage of a likeness to stinging insects and to aggressive ants, just as he recognized the benefits