 | 1921 - 472 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between. these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 424 pages
...architectural powers.' To leave nothing unexplained, Mr Darwin remarks : ' The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...sweep equal spheres, and then building up, or leaving unguarded the planes of intersection between the spheres' (247). The Honey-bee then by this statement... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 pages
...architectural powers.' To leave nothing unexplained, Mr Darwin remarks : ' The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...sweep equal spheres, and then building up, or leaving unguarded the planes of intersection between the spheres' (247). The Honey-bee then by this statement... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 pages
...details, is the substance of Mr. Darwin's theory. In summary he concludes, — The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. This theory, while serving as a full and simple explanation of all the facts, has, as we have seen,... | |
 | 1888 - 848 pages
...that as they луеге completed the surfaces intersected. When this occurred, the bees built up Hat walls along the lines of intersection. ' The work...'seems to be a sort of balance struck between many liées, all instinctively standing at the same relative distance from eacli other, all trying to .sweep... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1891 - 552 pages
...substance of Mr. Darwin's theory. In summary he concludes, — The work of construction seems to Le a sort of balance struck between many bees, all instinctively...the planes of intersection between these spheres. This theory, while serving as a full and simple explanation of all the facts, has, as we have seen,... | |
 | Wathen Mark Wilks Call - 1891 - 318 pages
...acquired through natural selection her inimitable architectural powers. " The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...sweep equal spheres and then building up or leaving unguarded the planes of intersection between these spheres." 1 Darwin's Origin of Species, pp. 221-225.... | |
 | 1894 - 634 pages
...is far from being positive, for he says about the building of combs, "That the work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many bees, all standing instinctively at the same relative distance from each other," etc.; and 011 the parthenogenesis... | |
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The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many bees, all instinctively standing at the same relative distance from each other, all trying to sweep equal spheres, and then building up, or leaving ungnawed, the planes of intersection... 
