 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause. I had decided to return to Ternate in a week or two more, but this grand capture determined... | |
 | 1869 - 584 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause.' — vol. ii. p. 51. Few, however, of these gorgeous creatures will compare with the Bornean... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1869 - 716 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause.' Those who love ferns— and in these days who does not love them ? — will read with envy... | |
 | 1871 - 304 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in the apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate canse. It is true that I have seen similar insects in cabinets at home ; but it is quite another thing... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1893 - 720 Seiten
...and I felt more like fainting than I have done when in prospect of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause" (" Malay Archipelago," p. 342). Here it is evident that a feeling of intense exultation gave... | |
 | 1906 - 636 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause." There are three factors in the nature of butterflies themselves which contribute to the difficulty... | |
 | Josiah Morse - 1907 - 122 Seiten
...and I felt more like fainting than I have done when in prospect of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause.' 1 This throws us back on the theory as stated in general terms by Professor James, and we shall... | |
 | 1908 - 322 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause." The SKIPPERS, the last family of butterflies, are comparatively stout-bodied insects, with... | |
 | Mark P. Silverman - 1993 - 294 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death ... so great was my excitement produced by what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause. One of the most pleasurable scientific experiences I have had myself was when, as a child, I... | |
 | Penny Van Oosterzee - 1997 - 262 Seiten
...much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced...what will appear to most people a very inadequate cause.' Wallace named it Ornithoptera croesus. The wings of a butterfly develop at an early stage,... | |
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... the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it. On taking it out of my net and opening the glorious wings, my heart began to beat violently, the blood rushed to my head, and I felt much more like fainting than I have done when in... 
