. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. IVorkcr. NO. I.âKAMI I Y I-OKIRAIIS OK THK W A'.rs daughters are of a^e to. help her. Women's-rij^lits women may he proud of the example thus set them. Nature nowhere presents us, indeed, with a liner specimen of feminine in- dustry and maternal devo- tion to duty tiian in the case of these courageous and puLinacious insects. / irKBii \ '^^^'^' ^^''' '^^'^ '^^^^^ *"''^' â ^ I^ *-â li* % larjie upon the features of these three faithful por- traits, " expressed after the life," as Elizabethan writers put it,


. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. IVorkcr. NO. I.âKAMI I Y I-OKIRAIIS OK THK W A'.rs daughters are of a^e to. help her. Women's-rij^lits women may he proud of the example thus set them. Nature nowhere presents us, indeed, with a liner specimen of feminine in- dustry and maternal devo- tion to duty tiian in the case of these courageous and puLinacious insects. / irKBii \ '^^^'^' ^^''' '^^'^ '^^^^^ *"''^' â ^ I^ *-â li* % larjie upon the features of these three faithful por- traits, " expressed after the life," as Elizabethan writers put it, because as we pro- ceed I shall have to call attention in <^reater detail to the meaning of the various parts of the body. It must suffice for the moment to direct your notice here to that very familiar portion of the wasp's anatomy, the sting, or ovipositor, possessed by the females, both per-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. Toronto : W. Briggs


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