The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217346597
Paperback|9780217346597
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: On Vegetable Substances growing on the bodies of living Animals. a letter from Dr Samuel S. Mitchill of New York to Professor A. P. De Candolle of Geneva, in Silliman's Journal, March 1827, there are some interesting observations stated with regard to vegetable substances growing on the bodies of living animals. His attention was called to these curious appearances in the year 1808, when W. A. Burwell, Esq. brought him, from his own plantation in Virginia, the larva of an insect, upon which a vegetable had fixed itself, and grown to a considerable size. From its appearance, he was induced to consider it as belonging to the species of Melolontfui, whose grub is destructive at times to the roots of grass, in meadows and pastures. The vegetable was single, and, although somewhat injured, yet the lower part of the stem and the point of attachment, were very distinct. Some years afterwards, another vegetating insect was presented to him by Dr W. M. Ross, who obtained it in Jamaica, during his residence there. It was a full grown Sphynx, whose whole body had been covered with a vegetable crop, issuing thick from the thorax and abdomen. Another Sphynx, similarly covered with vegetables, was subsequently shewn him by Dr J. B. Ricard Maddiana, who brought it from Guadaloupe., This gentleman also gave him several vegetating wasps, procured by himself in the same place. On the 16th June 1823, while on a botanizing excursion at Bay Mahaut in the above island, he saw lying on the ground a wasp's nest, which had fallen from a branch of Laurus persea. Some of the animals were flitting about over the cells, and, by the softness of their wings, and the faintness of their colours, were easily known to have been hatched but a short time. Many others were lying dead on the ground....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346597 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346596 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 370 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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