Part 40

Swammerd., 'Book of Nature,' vol. ii. p. 84.

'Contempl. de la Nature,' part xii. p. 197.

Bonnet, 'Observ. sur les Insectes,' vol. ii. p. 425.

Dict. Classique d'Hist. Nat. Art. Grillon.

Natural History of Selborne, ii. 82.

Entomologie, par R. A. E. 18mo., Paris, 1826, p. 168.

Natural History of Selborne.

Act. Acad. Berolin. 1752, et Gleditsch, Phys. Botan., quoted by Kirby and Spence, ii. 353.

Moufet, 153. Kirby and Spence, ii. 350.

Journal of a Naturalist, p. 311.

Bingley, Anim. Biog., vol. iii, p. 230.

Phil. Trans., vol. xliv. p. 579.

Anim. Biog., vol. iii. p. 233.

Anderson's Recr. in Agricult., vol. iii. p. 420.

Hints, p. 74.

Journal of a Naturalist, p. 304.

A line is the twelfth part of the old French inch. See Companion to the Almanac for 1830, p. 114.

M. P. Huber on Ants, p. 20.

Stedman's Surinam, vol. i. p. 160.

M. P. Huber on Ants, p. 23.

Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Fourmis.

Dr. Cleghorn, Thesis de Somno.

Aristotle Hist. Animal. ix. 38. Pliny says, "Operantur et noctu plenâ lunâ; eadem interlunio cessant," i.e., They work in the night at full moon, but they leave off between moon and moon. It is the latter that we think doubtful.

M. P. Huber on Ants, p. 31.

Huber on Ants, p. 43.

In formicâ non modo sensus, sed etiam mens, ratio, memoria.

Aldrovandus de Formicis, and Johnston, Thaumaturg. Nat. p. 356.

See Professor Paxton's Illustrations of Scripture, i. 307.