 | 1883 - 692 pages
...roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even in some cases of slaves, he thought they had a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence. In this country we have 30 kinds; but ants are more numerous in species in warmer countries, and more... | |
 | 1877 - 822 pages
...communities, elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even in some cases of slaves, it must be admitted that they...more than seven hundred kinds are known. Even this large number certainly is far short of those actually in existence. I have kept in captivity nearly... | |
 | 1877 - 938 pages
...communities, elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even in some cases of slaves, it must be admitted that they...but ants become more numerous, in species as well a.* individuals, in warmer countries, and more than seven hundred kinds are known. Even this large... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...communities, elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even, in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they...more than seven hundred kinds are known. Even this large number certainly is far short of those actually in existence. I have kept in captivity nearly... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1879 - 220 pages
...communities, elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even, in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they...more than seven hundred kinds are known. Even this large number is certainly far short of those actually in existence. I have kept in captivity nearly... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 696 pages
...communities, elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even, in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they...study. In this country we have nearly thirty species ; bnt ants become more numerous, in species as well as individuals, in warmer countries, and more than... | |
 | 1880 - 920 pages
...anthropoid apes approach more nearly to man in bodily structure than any other animals, the " Ants have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence." Yet, though they have no brain, but only a series of nervous ganglia connected by threads, they possess... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1883 - 308 pages
...same species display distinct peculiarities of disposition. Taken altogether, he believes that ants have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence. Their social organization, their large communities, elaborate habitations and extensive roadways, their... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1881 - 366 pages
...communities, elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even in some cases of slaves, it must be admitted that they...to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence." * Whether, even with all this evidence, we may be able to rank the ants quite as high as Lubbock here... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - 494 pages
...communities, and elaborate habitations; their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even, in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they...interesting but also a very ex'tensive field of study. They are divided into three families: the Formicidse, Poneridae, and Myrmicidse, comprising many genera... | |
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... elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and even, in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence. 
