About forty years ago the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of St. Fernando in Chili arrested a certain M. Renous on a charge of witchcraft, because he kept some caterpillars which turned into butterflies.1 This was no doubt an extreme case of ignorance; it is now almost universally known that the great majority of insects quit the egg in a state very different from that which they ultimately assume; and the general statement in works on entomology has been that the life of an insect may be divided into four periods.
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On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects (Illustrated)
About forty years ago the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of St. Fernando in Chili arrested a certain M. Renous on a charge of witchcraft, because he kept some caterpillars which turned into butterflies.1 This was no doubt an extreme case of ignorance; it is now almost universally known that the great majority of insects quit the egg in a state very different from that which they ultimately assume; and the general statement in works on entomology has been that the life of an insect may be divided into four periods.
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On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects (Illustrated)
On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects (Illustrated)
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| BN ID: | 2940162672012 |
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| Publisher: | V F Editions |
| Publication date: | 08/25/2020 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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