This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Insects have been assigned a place at the very head of the invertebrates. They are mostly of small size, the largest of them being much inferior in this respect when compared with many of their crastacean cousins. Like the latter, they exhibit a very complicated external framework, with highly developed appendages, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Insects have been assigned a place at the very head of the invertebrates. They are mostly of small size, the largest of them being much inferior in this respect when compared with many of their crastacean cousins. Like the latter, they exhibit a very complicated external framework, with highly developed appendages, some of which give them a most amazing power of locomotion. The internal anatomy too points to a high position in the scale of life; but it is the superior intelligence displayed by a large number of species that awards them the place of honour at the summit of the scale of the invertebrate sub-kingdoms. The term ' insect' signifies ' cut into, ' and at once points to the most obvious characteristic by which the creatures of this subkingdom are to be distinguished from those of all the others, for the body of an insect in its perfect state is usually divided by distinct constrictions into three main parts--the head, the thorax, and the abdomen; and the constrictions are often r a hard chitinous exo-skeleton like that which surrounds the body. so deep that the head is joined to the thorax by a very narrow and almost threadlike neck, or the abdomen connected with the thorax by an equally slender waist. All three of these divisions are further divided into ringlike segments, often very indistinct in the foremost divisions, but usually well marked in the abdomen. Several of the segments bear each a pair of appendages, as we observed was the case with the crayfish and the freshwater shrimp; and where no external line of division is visible between the segments, the pairs of appendages without, and tho arrangement of nerve ganglia within, both aid us in mentally separating those which have become so far fused together as to obliterate the external lines...
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