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...knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that the teacher could better expound his subject who exemplified this belief...
Professor Carr brings back many photographs, insect collections, plants and geological data, as well as a collection of marine invertebrate animals. Professor Gill made a study of the Mingsyah peninsula, with excellent results. Professor Carr concludes that the American and Queenland ice-caps are not one and the same, but always have been separate, and that the center of Greenland is highlands...
...common colors of nature are green and brown, and hence most insects are of one or the other of these two colors. It has been a question whether the color of insects was derived directly from the coloring matter of their vegetable food, or whether it was due to some peculiar process which had nothing to do with the color of food. Experiments made upon larvae with food material of different colors has shown conclusively that the color of the insect is affected by the color of its food...
...GREENE.THE Zoological Club will meet in room 3, fourth floor of the Museum. Tuesday. Jan. 17, at 7.30 p. m. Papers will be presented upon the following subjects: - Development of Paludina, Studies on Insect Eggs, The Vertebrate Blastopore, the Eye of the Lamprey...
...Birds, insects and snails, he continued, do not work gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends...