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Grand illustrated encyclopedia of animated nature : embracing a full description of the different races of men, and of the characteristic habits and modes of life of the various beasts, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, and microscopic animalcula of the globe : being a complete history of the animal kingdom (1855)

Frost, John, 1800-1859, Crouch, Loeir, former owner. DSI, Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI · Auburn, N.Y. : The Auburn Publishing Company, E.G. Storke, Publishing Agent · leaf 367

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INSECTS. … the banks. At the time of their last change they quit the water, cast their skin and appear in a new form. But, singularly, they must again doff their skin, before being competent to propagate. At sunset, on fine summer and autumn days, they appear along the margin of the waters, wherein they were…

Zoology · Animal behavior

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