. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. e instinct toleave the nest and forage, is the direct result of a chronic state ofhunger. CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF MYRMECOLOGY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF ANTS. I ni<curs cles fourmis sont si variees quil est important cle connoitre aquelle espetv se rapporte chaque trait dindustrie, chaque particularite de leurhistoire.—P. Huber, Rechercbes sur les Moeurs des Fourmis Indigenes, 1810. Myrmecology has been more fortunate than many other branchesof entomology in the men who have contributed to its have been actuated,
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. e instinct toleave the nest and forage, is the direct result of a chronic state ofhunger. CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF MYRMECOLOGY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF ANTS. I ni<curs cles fourmis sont si variees quil est important cle connoitre aquelle espetv se rapporte chaque trait dindustrie, chaque particularite de leurhistoire.—P. Huber, Rechercbes sur les Moeurs des Fourmis Indigenes, 1810. Myrmecology has been more fortunate than many other branchesof entomology in the men who have contributed to its have been actuated, almost without exception, not by a maniafor endless multiplication of genera and species, but by a temperateand philosophical interest in the increase of our knowledge. Thereason for this fortunate circumstance is probably to be sought in theingeninm formiccc male habitat, the fact that ants are small, homelyorganisms with nothing to attract the amateur who cares only for sizeand beauty of form and color. This is, perhaps, regrettable as it has. FIG. 67. \Yorker of Sima allaborans of India. (Bingham.) certainly retarded the accumulation of study materials in our museumsand private collections, and has left the subject in the hands of a fewdevotees. Hut this disadvantage is not so great as might be supposed,because the species of ants, though far less numerous than those ofbutterflies and beetles, are nevertheless more abundant in individualsand hence more easily obtained. Undoubtedly the great difficulty of thestudy has had much to do with limiting the number of mynnecologists,especially in America. Here the literature of descriptive myrmecology,which is widely scattered through somewhat obscure serials and iswritten very largely in the German, French and Italian languages, hasremained quite inaccessible to the average student. Even a knowledge 123 i^4 ANTS. of the literature, however, docs not overcome all of the difficulties ofthe subject, for the species of ants often diff
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