What do you think?
Rate this book
Insecta
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. 1890 ...of Hemiptera that live in the water, and show curious adaptations for an aquatic existence. Children can easily collect water-bugs, which always add to the interest of the lessons, and are instructive additions to their own and the school cabinets. NOTONECTID.E. The back-swimming water-boatman, Notonecta undulata, Say (Fig. 70), is very common in our ponds. Few insects are more interesting, and their swift movements in water and oar-like use of their legs are sure to awaken and fix the attention of children. They must be handled cautiously, and held by the thumb and fingers applied to either side of their flat bodies, since they frequently inflict severe stings with their sharp beaks. Fis-i The back of Notonecta resembles in shape the bottom of a boat, and it is this part that cleaves the water, the insect always swimming with its back downward. The thoracic rings can be easily made out; the metathorax is the largest segment and bears the long, hairy swimming-legs which propel the animal through the water. The insect carries air about with it under its wings, which is used for respiration, and which also helps to lighten the body, so that it rises quickly from the bottom of the pond whenever it loosens its hold of an object to which it may be clinging and allows itself to float upward. Notonecta is obliged to come to the surface frequently, as the greater part of the air being under the wings comes in contact with the water but little. Corisa, another genus of water-boatman, has its body almost completely enveloped with air, which glistens like silver. This air-film is constantly retained, and probably acts as a tracheal gill, so that the insect is able to remain under water a long time.1 BELOSTOMIDE. The giant water-bug, Belostoma (Fig. 71), shows several ...
70 pages, Paperback
First published January 11, 2010
About the author
Alpheus Hyatt
98 books7 followersSee also: A. Hyatt Verrill
Alpheus Hyatt (April 5, 1838 – January 15, 1902) was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.
Alpheus Hyatt II was born in Washington, D.C. to Alpheus Hyatt and Harriet Randolph (King) Hyatt. He briefly attended the Maryland Military Academy and Yale University, and after graduating from Harvard University in 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for the Civil War, emerging with the rank of captain.
After the war he worked for a time at the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He and a colleague founded American Naturalist and Hyatt served as editor from 1867 to 1870. He became a professor of paleontology and zoology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1870, where he taught for eighteen years, and was professor of biology and zoology at Boston University from 1877 until his death in 1902. He also served as curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, and established a laboratory at the Norwood-Hyatt House in 1879[1] for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam, Massachusetts. The River Road building gave him access to the Annisquam River, a salt water estuary. This enterprise was moved to Woods Hole and became the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in 1888.
Hyatt studied under Louis Agassiz and was a proponent of Neo-Lamarckism with Edward Drinker Cope. In 1875 he was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1898 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Brown University.
He and his wife, Audella Beebe, were the parents of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington; their other children were Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, who was also a sculptor though less well known, (and mother of the art historian A. Hyatt Mayor),and Alpheus Hyatt III.
Alpheus Hyatt (April 5, 1838 – January 15, 1902) was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.
Alpheus Hyatt II was born in Washington, D.C. to Alpheus Hyatt and Harriet Randolph (King) Hyatt. He briefly attended the Maryland Military Academy and Yale University, and after graduating from Harvard University in 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for the Civil War, emerging with the rank of captain.
After the war he worked for a time at the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He and a colleague founded American Naturalist and Hyatt served as editor from 1867 to 1870. He became a professor of paleontology and zoology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1870, where he taught for eighteen years, and was professor of biology and zoology at Boston University from 1877 until his death in 1902. He also served as curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, and established a laboratory at the Norwood-Hyatt House in 1879[1] for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam, Massachusetts. The River Road building gave him access to the Annisquam River, a salt water estuary. This enterprise was moved to Woods Hole and became the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in 1888.
Hyatt studied under Louis Agassiz and was a proponent of Neo-Lamarckism with Edward Drinker Cope. In 1875 he was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1898 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Brown University.
He and his wife, Audella Beebe, were the parents of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington; their other children were Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, who was also a sculptor though less well known, (and mother of the art historian A. Hyatt Mayor),and Alpheus Hyatt III.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.