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necessity of forming one common cocoon, which serves for a covering to the whole number. The same thing happens to silk-worms, the double or treble cocoons of which are called Dupions by the breeders. The larv of some Ichneumons, besides forming each its separate cocoon, spin a joint cottony covering for the wholeb, which is effected thus: After they leave the caterpillar they have devoured, they fix themselves side by side at a little distance from it, and begin to spin each a cocoon; and in order to

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pierced cocoon, the thread of which was entireb. Yet Reaumur's correctness cannot be suspected: and he affirms, that from observation there can scarcely be a doubt that most of the threads are brokenc; which is further confirmed in an account of the breeding of silk-worms published in the American Philosophical Transactions: in which it is expressly stated, that cocons out of which the fly has escaped, cannot be woundd. Analogy, it must be confessed, is against Reaumur's opinion; since other kinds of

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section are distinguished by them: The Dynastid in the Lamellicorn section are remarkable for a single crenated furrow next the suture; in the weevil tribes the numerous species of the genus Apion are ornamented by furrowed elytra with pores in the furrows, which give them the appearance of neat stitching; in many of those beetles that have soft elytra, as the glow-worms (Lampyris), the blister-beetles (Cantharis, Mylabris), and still more in demera, two or three slight ridges generally run

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effectual remedy, is steeping the body in spirits of wine till all the acid is extracteda. This acid is probably the same as Chaussier obtained from silk-worms, since called Bombic Acidb. The poison of bees and wasps, as to its chemical qualities, is a transparent fluid, at first sweet to the taste, but immediately afterwards hot and acrid like the milky juice of the spurgec; soluble in water, but not in alcohol; and separable from the former in the state of white powder, when the latter is added

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The maladies to which bees and silk-worms are subject are more interesting to us than those of flies, on account of their utility as cultivated insects. One of the worst distempers which attacks the first of these animals is a kind of looseness or dysentery: this happens early in the year, when they are fed with too much honey without any portion of bee-bread, and sometimes destroys whole hives. Their excrements, instead of a yellowish red, then become black, and the odour they emit is

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gummy rather acrid secretion, which purges the silk-worms; their excrement is no longer solid; they become weak and languid; and if the secretion is abundant, their transpiration is impeded, and at the time of moulting they are become so feeble as to be unable to cast their skina. In the case of many caterpillars of Lepidoptera that died, Bonnet found by dissection that the disease was remotely occasioned by a diarrh a, which taking place immediately before they became pup , prevented the inner

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also once found one in Abax striola. It still remains in my specimen, making it appear as if it had a long tail. De Geer long ago found these worms in grasshoppersa; but Dr. Matthey has given the fullest account of one which infested Acrida viridissima. A friend of his noticing one of these insects which had not strength enough to leap and could scarcely even walk, being struck with the circumstance, caught the animal, upon which its hind legs were immediately detached from it. His surprise

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, His mighty work, who speaks and it is done, Th' Invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field: To wonder at a thousand insect forms, These hatch'd, and those resuscitated worms, New life ordain'd and brighter scenes to share, Once prone on earth, now buoyant upon air, Whose shape would make them, had they bulk and size, More hideous foes than fancy can devise; With helmet-heads and dragon-scales adorn'd, The mighty myriads, now securely scorn'd, Would mock the

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. Sheep, insects that infest, i. 156. Shell-fish, insects that infest, i. 156. Showers (bloody), produced by insects, i. 34 Shrike. See Butcher-bird. Silk, i. 329. Silk-worms, kinds of, i. 332: diseases of, iv. 205: not attacked by ichneumons, 221: how to forward their exclusion, iii. 101. Skin of insects, iii. 401. Skunk, ii. 241. Sleep of insects, iv. 192. Soap, manufactured from insects, i. 313. Society, Royal, iv. 436. Linnean, iv. 449. Solomon, knew insects, i. 23; ii. 46. Sow-bug, i. 140

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gardens recently converted from pasture ground. In the Botanic Garden at Hull thus circumstanced a great proportion of the annuals sown in 1813 were destroyed by it. A very simple and effectual remedy in such cases was mentioned to me by Sir Joseph Banks. He recommended that slices of potato stuck upon skewers should be buried near the seeds sown, examined every day, and the wire-worms which collect upon them in great numbers destroyed. This plan of decoying destructive animals from our crops by

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, iv. 163. Palpi, of what sense organs, iv. 248. Parasites of insects: vegetable, iv. 207: Insect; hymenopterous, i. 264; iv. 209: strepsipterous, i. 267; iv. 208: dipterous, i. 267; iv. 224: apterous, ibid: Worms, 229. Pax-wax, iv. 176. Peaches, insects that attack, i. 200. Pears, insects that attack, i. 197. Peck (Professor), his description of the ovipositor of saw-flies, iv. 154. Penny (Dr. Thomas), iv. 429. Pentamerous insects, iii. 368. Perspiration of insects, iv. 145. Phosphorus, iv. 107

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tion of my little finger. The coats of the intestines, in a contracted state, near their communication with the stomach, were an inch in thickness. On opening the stomach, the cause of death at once appeared, in myriads of worms which had destroyed its internal coats in several places. These, of a dark red-colour, and varying from two to four inches in length, were about the twentieth part of an inch in their greatest diameter, and tapered to both extremities. They had collected in throngs of

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of reptiles, worms, and insects, begins to be impregnated with water. I have seen Indian children, of the tribe of the Chaymas, draw out from the earth and eat millepedes or scolopendras eighteen inches long, and seven lines broad. Whenever the soil is turned up, we are struck with the mass of organic substances, which by turns are developed, transformed, and decomposed. Nature in these climates appears more active, more fruitful, we might even say more prodigal of life.On this shore, and near

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trees; destroy the swarm of worms and insects, that attack the bark, the leaves, and the flowers; dig trenches; and resolve to lead a wretched life for seven or eight years, till the cacao-trees begin to bear. Thirty thousand trees secure competence to a family for a generation and a half. If the culture of cotton and coffee have led to the diminution of that of cacao in the province of Caraccas, and in the small valley of Cariaco, it must be confessed, that this last branch of colonial industry

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that they swarm like worms in the shallow waters of the river, and in the shelter of uninhabited islands. April the 6th. Continuing to ascend the Oroonoko, first toward the South, and then toward the South-West, we perceived the southern side of the Serrania, or chain of the mountains of Encaramada. The part nearest the river is only a hundred and forty or a hundred and sixty toises high; but from it's abrupt declivities, it's situation in the midst of a savannah, and it's rocky summits, cut

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an innumerable quantity of ducks (patos careteros) remove from eight and three degrees of north latitude, to one and four degrees of south latitude, toward the south-south-east. These animals then abandon the valley of the Oroonoko, no doubt because the increasing depth of the waters, and the inundations of the shores, prevent them from catching fish, insects, and aquatic worms. They are killed by thousands in their passage across the Rio Negro. When they go toward the equator, they are very

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Depons having visited these spots after me, and his instructive work having preceded mine, I shall abstain from describing objects minutely, which he has treated with sufficient precision*. La Guayra is rather a roadstead than a port. The sea is constantly agitated, and the ships suffer at once by the action of the wind, the tideways, the bad anchorage, and the worms . The lading is taken in with difficulty, and the heights of the swell prevents embarking mules here, as at New Barcelona and

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angle, is in some narwals less than 60 degrees, in others upwards of 90. The blowhole communicates with a large double cavity or air-vessel immediately under the skin; and this is connected with the nares of the skull, where the opening is divided by a bony septum. In a fine fatty substance about the internal ears of the narwal, are found multitudes of worms. They are about an inch in length, some shorter, very slender, and taper both ways, but are sharper at one end than at the other. They

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

entrails of a sheep, which he had seized, and found them still in his stomach, partly undigested. This membrane is a mere sack, fixed round the fauces, and of the same width as the enormous mouth. We once found at the bottom of this sack, and in the very skin of which it is composed, a round lump, more than three inches in diameter; it had a small hole in the side connected with the lower intestines, and was full of white worms: evidently one of the diseases to which this monster is subject. The

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Aleutians, who eat these fish raw, cut them into very thin slices to avoid these animals. I mention this fact only for those who are of opinion that intestinal worms in the human species may be produced by the eating of animals, especially fish which have such worms. This is the opinion also of my estimable predecessor, Dr. Espenberg, in his instructive treatise on the diseases of the crew of the Nadeshda, during the voyage of Captain Krusenstern round the world, which, in particular, gave me

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CHAP. XIV. FROM GUAHON TO ST. HELENA. THE 1st of December, latitude 16 31 , longitude 219 6 A number of sea-birds indicated the vicinity of an uninhabited island. According to Arrowsmith's chart, there lies a sand-bank in this latitude, which is said to have been also seen by Spanish seamen. The 6th: latitude 20 longitude 232 12 . A small hawk was caught to-day. We discovered some days ago a considerable leak in the ship; probably a piece of the sheathing had come off, and the worms, which are

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remedy. Till the salmon came in, the crew received daily a sufficient quantity of fresh cod ; but nobody complained of intestinal worms, though the cod here abound in them, for which reason the * Sahno Lycaodon. Pallas Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, tom. iii. p. 370. Gadus Wachna. Pallas Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, tom. iii. p. 182. [page] 33

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along the strand. Among the crabs, the beautiful Cancer squilla and Palinurus species are distinguished; among shells the little pearl oyster, which are only caught in the Pearl River, and from which small pearls, of little value, are obtained. The sea-worms and zoophytes, probably compose the richest and most interesting part of the Fauna. In general, the species here appear to be different from those at Radack. The progressive growth of the reef does not seem to have escaped the natives. They told

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the north, and of their domestic animals*, (with the exception of the rein-deer) depends, as it does in a milder climate on the harvest of corn, dried fish being the only substitute for bread and fodder among the people of the north. The more simply organized inhabitants of the sea will lead us to make some general remarks. We have recognized, in the equatorial ocean, a laboratory of nature, where she causes lime-stone to be produced or precipitated by Mollusc , worms, and especially Polypi

A773.01    Beagle Library:     Fleming, John. 1822. The philosophy of zoology; or, A general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. vol. 1.   Text

of the skin, and their appendices, presenting even a brilliant display of colours, intimating, that its absence has been supplied, by the action of some of the other layers. The muscular web is present in some, and almost absent in other animals, even of the same class; and the same observation holds true with respect to the cellular web. Hair is not peculiar to the mammalia. It is found on birds and even worms. Feathers, however, are peculiar to birds, as nothing analogous has been observed on