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merely morally wrong, but hurting my character I felt it) — this is kind of conscience, is obscure memory of having read or thought of some such remarke as now advanced; for I caught it like a flash.— strange if judgment remains, where reason is forgotten, it is conscience, or instinct.

Hensleigh says to say Brain per se thinks is nonsense; yet who will venture to say germ within egg, cannot think — as well as animal born with instinctive knowledge.— but if so, yet this knowledge acquired by senses, — then thinking consists of sensation of images before your eyes, or ears (language mere means

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of exciting association.) — or of memory of such sensations, & memory is repetition of whatever takes place in brain, when sensation is perceived. =

Aug. 7^th — 38. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London Vol. I. p. 106. Col. Sykes⁴³ on Formica indefessa placed table in cups of water which they waded or swam across.— they then stretched themselves from wall to table.— table being removed a little further, they ascended about a foot & then leapt across. (Col Sykes compares this with pidgeons finding their way home — there is something wrong in comparing these cases, when agency is unknown, with simple exertion of

43. Sykes, op. cit.

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intellectual faculty) if ants had at once made this leap it would have been instinctive, seeing that time is lost & endeavours made must be experience & intellect.— do. p. 157. Westwood⁴⁴ remarks that some imported plants are attacked by insects & snails of this country (thus Dahlias by snails) — The Apion radiolum undergoes transformation in the stem of Hollyhock, although ordinary Habitat is Malva sylvestris

do. p. 228 Newport⁴⁵ says D^r Darwin⁴⁶ mistaken in saying common wasp cuts off wings of flies from intellect, but it does it always instinctively or habitually.— good Heavens is it disputed that a wasp has this much intellect, yet habit may make it act wrong, as I have done when taking lid off tea side of tea chest, when no tea

44. Westwood, J. O., "On the Earwig," Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1 (Pt. 3):157–163, 1836.

45. Newport, G., "On the Predaceous Habits of the Common Wasp, Vespa vulgaris, Linn.," Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1 (Pt. 3):228–229, 1836.

46. Zoonomia, p. 183: "One circumstance I shall relate which fell under my own eye, and showed the power of reason in a wasp, as it is exercised among men. A wasp, on a gravel walk, had caught a fly nearly as large as himself; kneeling on the ground I observed him separate the tail and the head from the body part, to which the wings were attached. He then took the body part in his paws, and rose about two feet from the ground with it; but a gentle breeze wafting the wings of the fly turned him round in the air, and he settled again with his prey upon the gravel. I then distinctly observed him cut off with his mouth, first one of the wings, and then the other, after which he flew away with it unmolested by the wind."

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do. p. 233. M^r Lewis⁴⁷ describes case of insects a Perga of Terebrantia, laying eggs on leaves of Eucalyptus, watching few days till larva excluded, then though not feeding them nor helping larva from egg watching them, brooding over them, preserving them from the sun & enemies — would not fly away, but bit pencil when touched with it — do not know their own larvae, but one female may be moved to other larvae, when two groups near, mother desert one sometimes & go to other, so that two mothers to one group.— (as in birds blind storge

They continue till death, thus acting 4 to 6 weeks. The deserted broods appeared healthy — This remarkable case may be normal, with insects, but habit forgotten in all older species. The earwig & a doubtful one of Acanthosoma grisea described

47. Lewis, R. H., "Case of Maternal Attendance on the Larva by an Insect of the Tribe of Terebrantia, Belonging to the Genus Perga, Observed at Hobarton, Tasmania," Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1 (Pt. 3):232–234, 1836.

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