...the common course of nature. That insects are the cause of these showers is no recent discovery ; for Sleidan relates that in the year 1553 a vast multitude...men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood b. But the most interesting account of an event of this kind is given by Reaumur, from whom we learn...

...the common course of nature. That insects are the cause of these showers is no recent discovery; for Sleidan relates that in the year 1553 a vast multitude of butterflies swarmed through a great • Detharding de Iutectis Coleopteris Daniels, 9. b Reaum. ii. 289. ' Faun. Suec. 822. 4 \at. Hut....

...Sleidan, that in the year 1553 a prodigious multitude of butterflies swarmed throughout a great portion of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings,...and men, with bloody drops as if it had rained blood f. Several historians, indeed, have recorded showers of blood among the prodigies which have struck...

...Sleidan, that in the year 1553, a prodigious multitude of butterflies swarmed throughout a great portion of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings,...men, with bloody drops as if it had rained blood. Several historians, indeed, have recorded showers of blood among the prodigies which have struck nations...

...Sleidan, that in the year 1553, a prodigious multitude of butterflies swarmed throughout a great portion of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings,...men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood. Several historians, indeed, have recorded showers of blood among the prodigies which have struck nations...

...Sloidan, that in the year 1553, a prodigious multitude of butterflies swarmed throughout a great portion of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings,-...men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood. Several historians, indeed, have recorded showers of blood among the prodigies which have struck nations...

...insects are the cause of these showers is, indeed, no recent discovery ; for it is stated by Sleidan, that in the year 1553, a vast multitude of butterflies...men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood. But the most interesting account of an event of this kind is given by Reaumur, from whom we learn,...

...the common course of nature. That insects are the cause of these showers is no recent discovery ; for Sleidan relates that in the year 1553 a vast multitude...clothes, and men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood.5 But the most interesting account of an event of this kind is given by Reaumur, from whom we...

...that name from his horrible massacre at Ghuzni. 130 page 212 — A shower of blood upon the rifted leaves. The showers of blood which caused so much...In these mountains (NE of Cabul) is found the bird Loheh, which is also termed Bukelemun, or Chameleon bird, and which has, between its head and its tail,...

...hv the excrements of insects Sleidan relates that, »in the year 1553, a vast multitude of butterfly swarmed through a great part of Germany, and sprinkled...men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood ••__ Kirby and Spences Introduction to Entomology. Pity that fairest lands should have their charms,...