Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 309
Narwhal with a twisted tusk.Reproduced from the ScientificAmerican, New York, by permis-sion. Lessons from Lower Animals A Tool-Using Wasp. 260 NATURE AS TEACHER easiest passes. In constructive powers bees, ants ana wasps faroutrank quadrupeds. Indeed one of the supreme feats of humanarchitecture,… … Warn Lower part of warrior ants nest, showing dome. It is deemed a mark of unusual intelligence when an ape, ofkin to man himself, uses a stone as a hammer wherewith to break open a nut, and yet the like in-telligence is displayed by Am-morphila urnaria, as describedby Dr. and Mrs. George W.Peckham…
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