...the wonder and admiration of mankind. Darwin remarked that its brain ' is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of man.' To test the power of memory in the ant, Sir John Lubbock first tried keeping an ant away from its nest...

...species." Very true. But the question may be begged on one side as well as on the other. "The brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more marvelous than the brain of man." Something must be done towards supplying the deficiency so frankly...

...of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man. The belief that there exists in man some close relation between the size of the brain and the...

...says Darwin (" Descent of Man," ed. 1875, p. 54), " the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man." This fact shows at the same time " that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an...

...they certainly seem to justify the remark of the most illustrious of naturalists, " The brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man." — Nineteenth Century. FOREST-CULTURE IN ALPINE RAVINES.* BY MJ CLEVE. "TTTHATEVER differences...

...assertion of a celebrated living naturalist, that " the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man." The Rev. Dr. Jessop has been for five and twenty years a Norwich clergyman. He has recently...

...has been fully proven, and this, of course, is the strongest evidence of-mental evolution. Sotting aside now the wonderfully interesting instances of...bridges and viaducts and, we are assured, even bury their dead with solemn pomp. In a paper read before the English Linnean Society in 1861, the writer...

...ants fully justifies Mr. Darwin's observation that ' the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.' It may therefore be interesting in this particular case to depart from the lines otherwise...

...ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man. p The gradually increasing weight of the brain and skull in man must have influenced the development...

...superior intelligence. A conspicuous instance of these qualities is the ant, whose brain, says Darwin, " is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of man." Krapotkin accounts for its superior qualities by the fact that mutual aid has entirely taken the place...