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A761.13 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 13: Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida. Text

The names of worms, , , in Greek, and vermes in Latin, were employed by the ancients to designate certain animals, which to a certain degree they suited; with much more reference, however, to the elongated form of their body than to the softness of their composition. But, as we have seen, the Greeks had three words for these beings, each of which had its peculiar signification. From what Aristotle tells us of his scolex, a word, the root of which is indubitably scolios, which means tortuous

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A761.13 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 13: Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida. Text

seems probable that it can proceed to form another. Pallas, in fact, informs us, that when it is very much annoyed there, it will issue forth spontaneously, and make its escape by a vermicular kind of movement. The AMPHITRITE is a genus of marine worms, whose character consists in having the head furnished with two pieces of a metallic lustre, and similar in form to combs. These animals, for the most part, inhabit tubes, which they form by agglutinating small grains of sand or fragments of

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A761.13 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 13: Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida. Text

invests the lateral folds of the buccal cavity in these nereides, would lead us to suppose that their food was more solid than that of the others, and that they might even attack the smaller fish. We shall conclude our remarks on the present order of annelida with a brief notice of the aphrodites. This is a genus of marine worms, the character of which is to have membranaceous plates in the form of a scale, which form two ranges on the back, where they are attached by their middle, one pair fastened

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A761.15 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2). Text

The lar of the ichneumonid have no feet, and resemble small worms. Those which live in the body of larv or caterpillars, after the manner of intestinal worms, gnaw at first only their fatty bodies, or those of their internal parts, whose existence is not essentially necessary to their preservation; but when on the point of being changed into nymphs, they pierce their skin for the purpose of coming forth, or otherwise very soon destroy them, and quietly undergo their metamorphosis in the dead

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A761.15 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2). Text

those could not have been laid except by the workers; thus, according to him, there are sometimes fruitful workers; a thing the possibility of which was not before suspected. But M. Huber tells us that he has been able to make some working bees fruitful in his hives, whenever he thought proper. His method is to remove the female from a hive. Immediately the bees hasten to replace her, by enlarging many of the cells which contain the larv of workers, and giving to the worms which they contain the

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

details,) to M. Latreille, who will himself explain every thing peculiar to his own researches. On the zoophytes, the final division of the animal kingdom, I have availed myself of the labours of M. de Lamarck, respecting the echinodermata, and of M. Rudolphi's work on intestinal worms, entitled Entozoa. I have, however, carefully anatomized all the genera, and fixed some that were hitherto unsettled. The corals and the infusoria presenting but few facilities for anatomical investigation, I

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

must we omit again mentioning M. Latreille, on the subject of entomology. If we omit to mention many names even of distinction among our own countrymen, or foreigners, it must not be imputed to neglect or depreciation of their merits; but the utter impossibility of making a complete enumeration in an imperfect sketch like the present, or of giving to such a sketch the character of a regular history of Zoology. The naked mollusca, those which inhabit the interior of shells, the worms, and

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

formerly entertained concerning those that were known. G tze, Werner, Fischer, Bloch, and Rudolphi, have greatly extended our knowledge of intestinal worms, creatures so remarkable from the necessity which obliges them to inhabit the interior of other animals. There have been always much fewer general works on the animal, than on the vegetable kingdom, and the reason is obvious; animals in number, complication, and diversification of structure so immeasurably exceed plants, as to render it

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

. CLASS VI. Vermes (Worms). Characters [page] li

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

confounded by Linn us, with worms in general, and particularly with the intestina. This justifies the title of invertebrated animals,, given first by M. Lamarck, to this immense portion of the animal kingdom, instead of white-blooded animals, the name by which they were formerly distinguished. The zoophytes have been also established by our author within their proper limits, as have also been the crustacea, which had been confounded in the immense family of insects. But we shall say nothing more

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

Those in which the nutritive juices, absorbed by the coats of the intestines, are immediately dispersed through the porous regions of the whole body are more numerous, inasmuch as the whole class of insects appears to come under this description. But in some of these, including arachnoides and worms, the nutritive fluid circulates through a system of covered vessels, from the final branches of which the nutritious particles are dispersed to the several parts requiring their sustenance. The

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A761.01 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 1: Mammalia (1) Text

to external configuration of parts, yet even here the degree of resemblance is generally analogous, both as to structure and functions. The third general form is that of insects, worms, c. Their nervous system consists of two cords extending along the belly, and swelled out at regular intervale into knots or ganglia. The first of these placed on the sophagus, though called the brain is not much larger than the rest. The covering of their body is divided by transverse folds into a certain

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A761.02 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 2: Mammalia (2) Text

indented at the base. They remain in holes which they dig in the earth, seldom going out till towards evening, and live on worms and insects. But one species has for a long time been remarked in France. The common Shrew, or Musette (Sorex Araneus, Lin.) Buff. VIII. X. I. Gray, with a square tail as long as the body. They are found in considerable numbers in the country, in the meadows, c. They have been accused of causing a malady among horses by their bite; but this imputation is false, and has

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A761.02 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 2: Mammalia (2) Text

very common along the rivers and lakes of Southern Russia. It subsists on worms, on the larv of insects, and more especially on leeches, which it easily draws out of the mud with its mobile snout. Its burrow, dug within the bank, commences under the water, and is raised in such a manner that the bottom remains above the level in the largest waters. This animal does not come voluntarily to dry land, but is often taken in nets. Its musky odour arises from a sort of pommade, secreted in small

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A761.02 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 2: Mammalia (2) Text

in these animals is extremely fine, and the tympanum remarkably large, though the external ear is wanting. The eye, however, is very small, and so much concealed by the hair, that its very existence was for a long time denied. The jaws of the mole are feeble, and its nutriment consists of insects, worms, and some tender roots. This tribe have six incisives above and eight below. Our Common Mole, (Talpa Europ a, Lin.) Buff. VIII. XII. Pointed muzzle, hair fine and black. Some individuals are

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A761.05 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 5: Mammalia (5) Text

resembling the Stags, but approaching in size that of the Elk. Syn. Irish Elk. Fossil Elk of Ireland, Molineux, Pent. c. C. Giganteus, G. Cuv. C. Hibernus, Desmarests; perhaps the Machlis of Pliny. Euryceros of Oppian. Segh of the Britons, and Schelch of the Ancient Germans. Icon. Heads in Phil. Transactions. Skeleton, Encyclop. Britain Supl. Idem, Cuv. Oss. Foss. Inhabit. Found in the peat bogs of Ireland, in Germany, near Worms on the Rhine, and in England, France, c. The skeleton in the Isle

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A761.06 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 6: Aves (1). Text

is brownish and the under reddish. This bird remains in the fields when ploughing to take the worms which the share exposes. Also called Fallaw Sniech and White-tail. The Rousset Wheat-ear Lath. Mot. Stapazina Gml. from Edw. t. 11. Ferrugineous; orbits wings and tail brown; tail outermost white-sided. Southern Europe. [page] 43

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A761.06 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 6: Aves (1). Text

. FICEDULA Bechst.) have the beak only a little more narrow at the base than the preceding. They are solitary birds which nestle generally in holes and live on insects worms and berries. We have here four species: The Redbreast (Mot. Rubecula Lin.) Enl. 361. 1. Gray-brown above; throat and chest red; belly white; nestles near the ground in woods; is inquisitive and familiar; some remain in winter take refuge in habitations and are easily tamed. The Blue-throated Warbler (Mot. Suecica Lin.) Enl. 361 2

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A761.07 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 7: Aves (2). Text

pure blue on the tip of wing; pretty nearly the size of the jay. It is a very wild bird, though sociable enough with its consimilars; it is clamorous, nestles in the hollows of trees, and quits us in winter. It lives on worms, insects, and small frogs. Some foreign rollers have, like ours, the tail square; but still the external tail-quills in our roller are a little elongated in the male, which is the first indication of their great elongation in many other species. Bengal Roller. C

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A761.07 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 7: Aves (2). Text

more bulky than those of the blackbird. It has various cries, but no song. In a state of liberty the hoopoe feeds on terrestrial insects, worms, berries, and vegetable substances. In captivity it is nourished with raw meat, in long cuts. It grows very fat in autumn, and its flesh is in great request in Italy, in the islands of the Archipelago, and in various districts of France. The hoopoe, taken young or old, soon grows familiar, and will accommodate itself to various kinds of food which it would

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