The Naturalist's Library: Foreign butterfliesW. H. Lizars, 1852 |
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abdomen abdominal margin afford anal angle animals annelides antennæ anteriorly apex appearance Arachnides base Belisama belonging beneath black spots blue body black Boisd Boisduval border Brazil broad butterflies caterpillar characters chrysalis considerable costa Cramer Crepuscular curved Danai discoidal cell distinct diurnal division Drury's edge Erycina extensive extremity Fabr Fabr.-Pap female fulvous genera genus globe Godart green ground colour HELICONIA hinder margin hinder wings Horsfield inches India inferior wings Infusoria insect islands Java Lamarck Latreille latter lepidoptera likewise Linn Lizars sc male marked middle Morpho native natural history naturalists nearly nervures oblique observation ocelli organs Ornithoptera palpi Papilio patch peculiar perfect insect Pieris PLATE posterior pretty Protesilaus prothorax regarded rounded secondary wings side slender species spines stripe superior wings surface Surinam synonymy tail terminal thorax tion transverse band upper wings white band whitish whole zoology
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第37页 - Annihilation ! how it yawns before me ! " Next moment I may drop from thought, from sense, " The privilege of angels, and of worms, " An outcast from existence ! And this spirit, " This all-pervading, this all-conscious soul, " This particle of energy divine, " Which travels nature, flies from star to star, " And visits gods, and emulates their powers,
第35页 - We point out to the reader this important chasm in the chain of the evidence, because he might otherwise imagine that we had merely omitted the illustrations for the sake of brevity, but the plain truth is, that there were no examples to be found ; and when Lamarck talks ' of the efforts of internal sentiment,' ' the influence of subtle fluids...
第39页 - An order of things composed of objects independent of matter, which are determined by the observation of bodies, and the -whole amount of which constitutes a power unalterable in its essence, governed in all its acts, and constantly acting upon all parts of the physical universe.
第29页 - The production of a new organ in an animal body results from the supervention of a new want continuing to make itself felt, and a new movement which this want gives birth to and encourages.
第68页 - To collect these moths, or rather butterflies,6 the natives make smothered fires under the rocks on which they congregate ; and suffocating them with smoke, collect them by bushels, and then bake them by placing them on heated ground. Thus they separate from them the down and the wings, they are then pounded and formed into cakes resembling lumps of fat, and often smoked. Which preserves them for some time. When accustomed to this...
第35页 - of the efforts of internal sentiment,' ' the influence of subtle fluids,' and the ' acts of organization," as causes whereby animals and plants may acquire new organs, he gives us names for things, and with a disregard to the strict rules of induction, resorts to fictions, as ideal as the ' plastic virtue/ and other phantoms of the middle ages.
第61页 - Each spangled back bright sprinkled specks adorn, Each plume imbibes the rosy-tinctured morn ; Spread on each wing the florid seasons glow, Shaded and verged with the celestial bow ; Where colours blend an ever-varying dye, And wanton in their gay exchanges vie.
第36页 - ... and other phantoms of the middle ages. It is evident, that if some well authenticated facts could have been adduced to establish one complete step in the process of transformation, such as the appearance, in individuals descending from a common stock, of a sense or organ entirely new, and a complete disappearance of some other enjoyed by their progenitors, that time alone might then be supposed * Phil.
第42页 - ... the pole that is nearest to it, and advancing in that direction only, in order to reach every place, traversing dry countries or extensive seas, it ought then to render the sky serene or stormy. If the influence of the moon on the weather is denied, it is only that it may be referred to its phases, but its position in the ecliptic is regarded as affording probabilities much nearer the truth.* In each of these annuals Lamarck took great care to avoid making any positive predictions.
第61页 - And agile as their blithe informing mind. la every eye ten thousand brilliants blaze, And living pearls the vast horizon gaze ; Gemmed o'er their heads the mines of India gleam, And Heaven's own wardrobe has arrayed their frame ; Each spangled back bright sprinkling specks adorn, Each plume imbibes the...