 | United States - 1898 - 908 pages
...that, if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare or wholly disappear....two-thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England. Xow the number of mice is largely dependent, as everyone knows, on the number of cats; and Col. Newman... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Evolution - 1898 - 454 pages
...that, if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartease and red clover would become very rare or wholly disappear....district depends in a great measure on the number of field mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Col. Newman, who has long attended to the habits... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - Debates and debating - 1898 - 482 pages
...depends in a great measure on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Colonel Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that ' more than two thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.' Now the number of mice is largely dependent,... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - Debates and debating - 1899 - 438 pages
...that, if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear....field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Colonel Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that ' more than two thirds... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Sermons, American - 1899 - 246 pages
...depends on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests " ; and a careful observer, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees,...believes that " more than two-thirds of them " are thus annually destroyed. " But the number of mice, as every one knows, is largely dependent on the number... | |
 | Theosophy - 1900 - 1124 pages
...if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heart's-ease and red clover would become very rare or wholly disappear....of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field mice which destroy their combs and nests ; and Colonel Newman, who has... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - English language - 1902 - 312 pages
...if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heart's-ease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear....humble-bees in any district depends in a great measure upon the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests ; the number of mice is largely... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 256 pages
...if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct, or very rare, in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare or wholly disappear....field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests ; and Colonel Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that ' more than two-thirds... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...clover would become very rare or wholly disappear. The number of humble-l>ees in any district depends in great measure on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests ; . . . now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats. . .... | |
 | Tuley Francis Huntington - English language - 1907 - 410 pages
...that, if the whole genus of humblebees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear....district depends in a great measure on the number of field mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Colonel Newman, who has long attended to the habits... | |
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Now the number of. mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats; and Col. 
