Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 245. Pollen of (EnotJtera biennis. Arislotelis ; and in fig. 215 we have the pollen of aflower, Oenothera biennis, with a strong likeness to adiatom (fig. 216), Triceratium Fig-. 246. Triceratium castellatum. Ascending higher in the scale of creation, it willbe found that similar instances of analogy species of Orchids, for example, so much re-semble animal forms that the names Bee Orchis, FlyOrchis, Butterfly Orchis, &c, have been given tothem. The mos
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 245. Pollen of (EnotJtera biennis. Arislotelis ; and in fig. 215 we have the pollen of aflower, Oenothera biennis, with a strong likeness to adiatom (fig. 216), Triceratium Fig-. 246. Triceratium castellatum. Ascending higher in the scale of creation, it willbe found that similar instances of analogy species of Orchids, for example, so much re-semble animal forms that the names Bee Orchis, FlyOrchis, Butterfly Orchis, &c, have been given tothem. The most remarkable of these, perhaps, isthe Butterfly Orchis {Oncidmm Papilio). The like-ness is in this case very complete. Another instanceis that of the resemblance of the shell of the Chitons,a family of gasteropod Mollusca, to the carapace ofthe Isopoda or Wood-lice, and even, in fact, to thecarapace of the Tortoises. The subject is a wide one, and more examples ofanalogy of form might have been adduced; but Ipreferred giving these few only in order that myreaders might perhaps be induced, by what hasbeen said, to enter on this field of inquiry, and tosee, correlate, and think for themselves. It haslong been one of great interest to me, and Idoubt not if they will pursue it that it will prove
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