The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Volume 9

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Macmillan, 1875
 

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Page 102 - Brehm was surprised, as his monkeys always divided everything quite fairly with their own young ones. An adopted kitten scratched this affectionate baboon, who certainly had a fine intellect, for she was much astonished at being scratched, and immediately examined the kitten's feet, and without more ado bit off the claws.
Page 98 - This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material 'judged,, and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room (for he generally chose the same place), he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers, which stood, at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him, using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very even, and filling up the interstices...
Page 108 - The subject requires careful re-investigation, but if the currently received statements are correct, the appearance of the "corpus callosum
Page 261 - Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself when it should come, would excite less horror than seems now to attend it.
Page 97 - Its strength, even before it was half grown, was great. It would drag along a large sweeping-brush, or a warming-pan, grasping the handle with its teeth so that the load came over its shoulder, and advancing in an oblique direction till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other ends projecting out into the room.
Page 262 - I then wrote a card to Mr. Allen that I might have a discreet friend at hand to act as occasion should require. In penning this note I had some difficulty; my hand, I knew not how nor why, made wrong letters.
Page 236 - ... state of the blood to similarly give rise to the production of saccharine urine. He has further found that through the agency of the inhalation of puff-ball smoke an immediate and strongly diabetic state may be induced, and that the effect is accompanied with such a modification of the circulation that the blood flows through the vessels, as is the case after section of the sympathetic, without becoming properly de-arterialized.
Page 97 - ... or anything portable. As the work grew high he supported himself on his tail, which propped him up admirably ; and he would often, after laying on one of his building materials, sit up over against it, appearing to consider his work, or, as the country people say, ljudge it.' This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material 'judged,' and sometimes it was left in its place.
Page 105 - ... amount of material which it contained, it was known to have been constructed within four or five days. Now, as this was a device quite foreign to the natural habit of the bird, and only hit upon after the repeated failure of its ordinary method of nestbuilding, the curious adaptation of means to end which it displayed can scarcely be regarded in any other light than as proceeding from a design. in the minds of the individuals who executed it.
Page 97 - Its building instinct,' says that accomplished naturalist, ' showed itself immediately it was let out of its cage, and materials were placed in its way, and this before it had been a week in its new quarters. Its strength, even before it was half grown, was great. It would drag along a large sweeping-brush, or a warming-pan, grasping the handle with its teeth, so that the load came over its shoulder, and advancing in an oblique direction till it arrived at the part where it wished to place it.

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