Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York, D. Appleton & company · leaf 150
ade to oscillate. In large-winged animals the movements PKOailESSION IN OR THROUGH THE AIR. 125 are slow; in small-winged ones comparatively very rapid. Thisshows that flight may be attained by a heavy, powerfulanimal with comparatively small wings, as well as by alighter one with enormously… … Fig. 58.—TJnder-surface of large beetle (Goliathus micans), with deeply con-cave and comparatively small wings (compare with butterfly, fig. 57), showsthat the ncrvures (r, d, e, /, n, n, n) of the wings of the beetle are arrangedalong the anterior margins and tlironghoiit the substance of the…
Animal locomotion · Aeronautics
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