Animal locomotion or walking, swimming, and flying : with a dissertation on aëronautics (1873)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · London : Henry S. King & Co. · leaf 148
e to oscillate. In large-winged animals the movements PROGRESSION IX 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 enlarged… … Fig. 5S.—Under-surface of large beetle (Goliathus mica a*), with deeply con-eave and comparatively small wings (compare with butterfly, fig. 57), showsthat the nervures r, d^ e, f, n, n, ri of the wings of the beetle are arrangedalong the anterior margins and throughout the substance of the…
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