Insect Miscellanies

Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330228210
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Insect Miscellanies written by James Rennie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Insect Miscellanies It was well said by the distinguished Danish naturalist, Fabricius, that "nothing in natural history is more abstruse and difficult than an accurate description of the senses of animals" This inherent complexity of the subject appears to have induced Lehmann to undertake the investigation of the senses of insects. He collected into a focus all that was known previous to his time, though he has added very little from his own observation; but since that period much has been done by Marcel de Serres, Wollaston, Müller, and others. The chief difficulty of the subject arises from the great physical differences which exist between animals furnished with bones and warm blood, and insects that have neither, rendering all inference from analogy much less to be depended on than if the physical structure of each were similar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.