 The largest Insects scarcely exceed in bulk a mouse or a wren, while the smallest are almost or quite imperceptible to the naked eye, and yet the larger part of the animal matter existing on the lands of the globe is in all probability locked up in the...  Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science - Page 288by Indiana Academy of Science - 1924Full view - About this book
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - 1894 - 518 pages
...The largest insects scarcely exceed in bulk a mouse or a wren, while the smallest are almost or quite imperceptible to the naked eye, and yet the larger part of the animal matter existing on the lauds of the globe is in all probability locked up in the forms of insects. Taken as a whole they are... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1896 - 878 pages
...imperceptible to the naked eye, and yet the largfr part of the aniuia! matter existing on the lauds of the globe is in all probability locked up in the...whole they are the most successful of all the forms of terrestriil animals. In the waters of the globe the predominance of insect life disappears In the smaller... | |
 | 1896 - 484 pages
...seniinalis ; /, Accessory gland ; k, Accessor}' gland ; /, Testis ; m, Thigh-gland ; «, Digestive tube. yet the larger part of the animal matter existing...of the globe is in all probability locked up in the form of Insects. Taken as a whole, they are the most successful of all the forms of terrestrial animals.... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1897 - 338 pages
...published, observes with professional pride— 'The larger part of the animal matter existing on the whole lands of the globe is, in all probability, locked...successful of all the forms of terrestrial animals.' Antinous and the Venus de" Medici are not in it, it seems. In fact, mere human beings would be crowded... | |
 | Edward Percy Stebbing - 1908 - 538 pages
...or a wren, while the smallest are almost or quite imperceptible to the naked eye ; in spite of this the larger part of the animal matter existing on the lands of the globe is probably contained in the form of insects. In the waters of the globe insect life is by no means so... | |
 | Sidney Frederic Harmer, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1910 - 608 pages
...The largest Insects scarcely exceed in bulk a mouse or a wren, while the smallest are almost or quite imperceptible to the naked eye, and yet the larger...successful of all the forms of terrestrial animals.\ In the waters of the globe the predominance of Insect life disappears. In the smaller collections of... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1914 - 802 pages
...together. Dr. Sharp remarks that though the largest insects scarcely exceed in bulk a mouse or a wren, ' yet the larger part of the animal matter existing...all probability locked up in the forms of Insects '. The same authority estimates the number of named species of insects at 250,000 ; and suggests that... | |
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