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... fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature- Useless organs - Rudiments of the pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light ...
... fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature- Useless organs - Rudiments of the pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light ...
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... fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature -Useless organs - Rudiments of the pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light ...
... fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature -Useless organs - Rudiments of the pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light ...
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... fossorial wasps , the interesting habits of which have been studied by Mr. J. H. Fabre , of Avignon . They are not gregarious , but lead solitary lives and differ in their habits from their congeners . Bees feed their larvæ with honey ...
... fossorial wasps , the interesting habits of which have been studied by Mr. J. H. Fabre , of Avignon . They are not gregarious , but lead solitary lives and differ in their habits from their congeners . Bees feed their larvæ with honey ...
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... fossorial wasps further . He ascertained that the captured insects were not dead , but only paralysed . The continuance of the function of certain organs demonstrated that the Buprestes , the weevils and other small creatures collected ...
... fossorial wasps further . He ascertained that the captured insects were not dead , but only paralysed . The continuance of the function of certain organs demonstrated that the Buprestes , the weevils and other small creatures collected ...
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... fossorial wasp . To gain their object the wasps probe exactly between the first and second pair of legs in the median line of the under surface of the thorax . The skin is thinner at this spot , and they introduce their sting into the ...
... fossorial wasp . To gain their object the wasps probe exactly between the first and second pair of legs in the median line of the under surface of the thorax . The skin is thinner at this spot , and they introduce their sting into the ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
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Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.