 | 1830 - 658 páginas
...without success, to find out the secret. At length, however, his perseverance was rewarded. He remarked a female wasp alight on the sash of his window, and begin to gnaw the wood with her mandibles; and it struck him at once that she was procuring materials for building. He saw... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 442 páginas
...Vol. i. P. 09. to find out the secret. At length, however, his perseverance was rewarded. He remarked a female wasp alight on the sash of his window, and begin to gnaw the wood with her mandibles ; and it struck him at once that she was procuring materials for building. He saw... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1845 - 176 páginas
...twenty years, he says, lo -find out how the wasp made paper, before he succeeded. At last, he one day saw a female wasp alight on the sash of his window,...part of an inch long, and not so large as a hair. 4. She gathered these into a knot with her feet, and then flew away to another part of the sash, and... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1849 - 180 páginas
...twenty years, he says, to find out how the wasp made paper, before he succeeded. At last, he one day saw a female wasp alight on the sash of his window,...part of an inch long, and not so large as a hair. 4. She gathered these into a knot with her feet, and then flew away to another part of the sash, and... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1852 - 178 páginas
...twenty years, he says, to find out how the wasp made paper, before he succeeded. At last, he one day saw a female wasp alight on the sash of his window,...part of an inch long, and not so large as a hair. 4. She gathered these into a knot with her feet, and then flew away to another part of the sash, and... | |
 | 1853 - 390 páginas
...success, to find out the secret At length, however, his perseverance was rewarded. He remarked a i'emale wasp alight on the sash of his window, and begin to gnaw the wood with her mandibles; and it struck him at once that she was procuring materials for building. lie saw... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 204 páginas
...twenty years, he says, to find out how the wasp made paper, before he succeeded. At last he one day saw a female wasp alight on the sash of his window,...part of an inch long, and not so large as a hair. 4. She gathered these into a knot with her feet, and then flew away to another part of the sash, and... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1861 - 200 páginas
...twenty years, he says, to find out how the wasp made paper, before he succeeded. At last he one day saw a female wasp alight on the sash of his window,...part of an inch long, and not so large as a hair. 4. She gathered these into a knot with her feet, and then flew away to another part of the sash, and... | |
 | 1870 - 398 páginas
...discover the materials employed by wasps in forming the papery substance so much used in their nests. One day he saw a female wasp alight on the sash of the window, and it struck him while watching her gnawing away the wood, that it was from such materials... | |
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... things, and of thinking about what you see. You are perfectly right in supposing that wasps make paper ; but it was a long time before men found out what they made it of. 3. A gentleman was trying for twenty years, he says, to find out how the wasp... 