Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Том 3

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Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Old College, Nungumbaukum., 1858
 

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Стр. 150 - ... whose means of locomotion are domestic animals ; for it is well known that the bite of this poisonous insect is certain death to the ox, horse, and dog. In this journey, though we were not aware of any great number having- at any time lighted on our cattle, we lost forty-three fine oxen by its bite. We watched the animals carefully, and believe that not a score of flies were ever upon them. " A most remarkable feature in the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals,...
Стр. 114 - ... the queen (female bee) , to become good for anything, must be fertilized by a drone (the male), and that the copulation takes place only in the air ; that drone-eggs do not require fecundation, but that the co-operation of the drone is absolutely necessary when worker-bees are to be produced. That " in copulation the ovaries are not fecundated, but the seminal receptacle, that little vesicle or knot which, in the young queen, is filled with a watery moisture, is saturated with semen, after which...
Стр. 137 - The wood is then washed over with this liquid, by means of an ordinary whitewash brush, the latter being passed two or three times over the surface, so that the wood may absorb as much of the solution as possible. When this first coating is nearly dry, the wood is painted with the lime-wash in the usual manner. A solution of the silicate, in the proportion of...
Стр. 114 - ... germ of life with them out of the ovary ; whilst otherwise it would be inexplicable and incredible. Thus the queen has it in her power to deposit an egg just as it comes from the ovary, and as the unfecundated mothers lay it ; or by the action of the seminal receptacle, past which it must glide, to invest it with a higher degree, a higher potency, of fertility and awaken in it the germ of a more perfect being, namely a queen or a worker bee.
Стр. 224 - There is another sort, which all People by the King's Permission may and do make. The shape is like a fish-hook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please. The Silver is purely fine beyond pieces of Eight. For if any suspect the goodness of the Plate, it is the Custom to burn the Money in the fire red hot, and so put it in water : and if it be not then purely white, it is not Currant Money.
Стр. 151 - ... a swelling appears under the jaw, and sometimes at the navel; and, though the animal continues to graze, emaciation commences, accompanied with a peculiar flaccidity of the muscles, and this proceeds unchecked until, perhaps months afterwards, purging comes on, and the animal, no longer able to graze, perishes in a state of extreme exhaustion. Those which are...
Стр. 150 - The poison does not seem to be injected by a sting, or by ova placed beneath the skin, for, when one is allowed to feed freely on the hand, it is seen to insert the middle prong of three portions, into which the proboscis divides, somewhat deeply into the true skin ; it then draws it out a little way, and it assumes a crimson colour as the mandibles come into brisk operation.
Стр. 205 - At seven years of age they are put to school to learn the use of their weapons, where, to make them nimble and active, their...
Стр. 151 - The fat is of a greenish-yellow colour, and of an oily consistence. All the muscles are flabby, and the heart often so soft that the fingers may be made to meet through it. The lungs and liver partake of the disease. The stomach and bowels are pale and empty, and the gall-bladder is distended with bile.
Стр. 102 - ... and are imbedded in the interstices of the mantle, become nuclei of pearls formed in this situation. I have repeatedly examined seed, or young pearls, in process of formation ; and, with a magnifying power of 1-5 inch lens, I was able to see distinctly the , outlines of two and three ova, through the first or superficial layer of nacre, surrounded by groups of ova. It can be readily understood how an overcharged ovarium will, by some accident or spontaneous evolution, have its coats ruptured,...

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