...villages ' and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous ' than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy ' the...the frequency of certain flowers in that district ! ' (P. 73.) This is very characteristic of the ingenious turn of thought of our author ; the more...

...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." The more fundamental accompanying uniformities should, however, receive our first attention. An ordinary...

...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats, which destroy the mice." "Hence," says Mr. Darwin, "it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers, in a district, might deI termine, through their intervention, first of mice, nnd then of bees, the frequency of certain...

...villages and small towns I have found the nests of bumble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." One would almost think, in reading Mr. Darwin's string of sequences, that the ingenious author of The...

...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." i One \vould almost think, in reading Mr. Darwin's string of sequences, that the ingenious author of...

...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice."...the frequency of certain flowers in that district ! Equally curious, and more difficult to explain, are what are called representative species. Thus...

...humble-bees carry the pollen from one plant of heartsease which is to fertilize another of the same plant : " Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a...the frequency of certain flowers in that district \" And thus a " struggle for existence" is going on among all creatures, which results in a balance...

...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of n feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice...

...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humblebees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of the feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of...

...their nests are thus destroyed. The number of mice is largely dependent upon the number of cats; and " hence it is quite credible that the presence of a...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." The common Beaver,* well known by the wonderful instinct which it displays, is a rodent. Beavers formerly...