 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 דפים
...number of insects have no such organ. METAMORPHOSES OF INSECTS. Were a naturalist, says Mr. Kirby, to announce to the world the discovery of an animal,...external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, an Egyptian mummy; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state, without food and... | |
 | James Wilson, James Duncan - 1834 - 382 דפים
...explain in what these essentially consist. " Were a naturalist," observe Messrs KIRBY and SPENCE, " to announce to the world the discovery of an animal,...within this covering into a body without external moutlTor limbe, and resembling, more than any thing else, an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 574 דפים
...INSECTS.— No. III. METAMOBPHOSES OP INSECTS. " WERE a naturalist," observe Messrs. Kirby and Spenec, " to announce to the world the discovery of an animal...body without external mouth or limbs, and resembling an Egyptian mummy more than anything else ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without... | |
 | 1848 - 602 דפים
...life, existed in the form of a serpent ; which then, penetrating inlo the earth, and weaving a sliroud of pure silk of the finest texture, contracted itself within this covering inlo a body without external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, an Egyptian mummy;... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1849 - 1194 דפים
...instances, to recognise the insect's identity with itself, at the different periods of its being. " Were a naturalist to announce to the world the discovery...external mouth or limbs, and resembling more than anything else an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food and... | |
 | 1849 - 638 דפים
...are by no means exaggerated. Were a naturalist to announce to the world the discovery of an animnl, which, for the first five years of its life, existed...external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food and... | |
 | 1848 - 294 דפים
...of an animal whieh, for the first five years of its life, existed in the form of a serpent ; whieh then, penetrating into the earth, and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture, eontraeted itself within this eovering into a body without external mouth or limbs, and resembling... | |
 | 1850 - 508 דפים
...entomologists to whom we owe the "most useful and popular introduction to their delightful science. They say : — " Were a naturalist to announce to the world...external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food and... | |
 | 1853 - 694 דפים
...Spence : " Were a naturalist to announce to the world the discovery of an animal, which for the two years of its life existed in the form of a serpent,...external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, '«en Egyptian mummy j ' and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food... | |
 | 1853 - 352 דפים
...Spence : « were a naturalist to announce to the world the discovery of an animal, which for the two years of its life existed in the form of a serpent,...external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, ' an Egyptian mummy ; ' and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food... | |
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Kirby, to announce to the world the discovery of an animal, which, for the first five years of its life, existed in the form of a serpent ; which then, penetrating into the earth, and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture, contracted itself,... 
