 Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district...  The naturalist in Sussex and on the spey - Page 53by Samuel Wilberforce - 1874Full view - About this book
 | John Avery - Science - 2003 - 236 pages
...ecology. but near to towns mice are kept in check by cats. Hence, Darwin notes, the presence of cats in a district might determine, through the intervention...the frequency of certain flowers in that district. Among the many striking observations presented by Darwin to support his theory, are facts related to... | |
 | Steven Fesmire - Philosophy - 2003 - 184 pages
...cats results in fewer mice, more bees, and more clover. Darwin concludes: "Hence it is quire ctedible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might derermine, through the inrervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers... | |
 | William Dritschilo - Science - 2004 - 417 pages
...ecological thinking. It has to do with the effect of cats on red clover through their suppression of mice. "Hence it is quite credible that the presence...then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in the district!" is Darwin's conclusion in his own words. (Mice disturb the nests of "humble bees," our... | |
 | Neilson Voyne Smith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 300 pages
...dependent on the number of cats (which eat them); and cats of course congregate in villages and towns. "Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a...of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!"43 Transformations may not have the immediate appeal of bumble-bees, but their causal role... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 pages
...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district! In the case of every species, many different checks, acting at different periods of life, and during... | |
 | Fisheries - 1914 - 764 pages
...villages and small towns I have found the nests of bumblebees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." This quotation calls to mind the familiar story of our childhood about the "House that Jack Built."... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1905 - 860 pages
...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district ! " ST. SWITHIN. BALLAD : SPANISH LADY'S LOVE FOE AN ENGLISHMAN (10th S. iv. 107, 153). — In addition... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 pages
...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice."...the frequency of certain flowers in that district.' (Pp. 72-74.) Thus, after asserting and endeavouring to prove (for it makes a most important link in... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1870 - 508 pages
...villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.'...the frequency of certain flowers in that district ! " In summing up the results of his enquiries, Mr. Darwin has applied the term " Natural selection... | |
 | Frederick Orpen Bower - Botany - 1912 - 188 pages
...their combs and nests. The number of Mice is dependent on the number of Cats, and he concludes that " it is quite credible that the presence of a feline...frequency of certain flowers in that district." Again, it has been shown by elaborate observations in Europe and Asia that the northern limit of distribution... | |
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