The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.

  • Swammerdam, Jan, 1637-1680.
Date:
1758
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Credit: The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and of the flatted water Snail, and the mufcles of the river Vecht. Alto a remark¬ able obfervation on the common Snail 73 The common water Snail ^ T. The wonderful viviparous cryflalhne tnnail 75 Of that fpecies of the Sea Snail, caded by the Hollanders Aliekruyk 80 Of the fmall water Turbo 82 Of the umbilicated marble Snail 83 The flatted Snail ib. The fmall flatted Snail 84 Of the frefh water Mufcles, found in the rivers in Holland ib. The method of cutting various images in (hells 86 A Letter from the author to the molt illuflrious Mr. Thevenot, on the anatomy of the Cancellus or Bernard L’Hermite 86 The external parts of the Cancellus or Hermit 1 Q by The internal parts 89 THE SECOND ORDER. Of the natural changes, or flow accretions in the limbs and parts of infeds 92 A Catalogue of the infecfts, which are referred to the fecond order of natural changes ; called the Nymph-Vermicle 93 An example of the fecond order of natural changes, which I call the Nymph-Vermicle, in the Dragon-Fly 97 Of the Nymph-Vermicles of the Dragon- Fly _ 99 Of the flying water Scorpions, which belong to our fecond order 101 The external parts ib. The internal parts 102 The natural hiftory of the infed: called the Hemerobios, Ephemeras, Diaria, or Day- Fly, extracted from J. Swammerdam’s ac¬ count of it, formerly printed in Dutch, under the tide of the life of the Ephemeras 103 CHAP. I. The Ephemerus is produced from an egg ib. CHAP. IE The egg of the Ephemerus produces a little Worm with fix legs, called the bank-bait by filhermen 104 CHAP. III. Of the life of the Vermicle or Worm of the Ephemerus, when out of the egg, and of its food 10c C FI A P. IV. How long the Vermicle or Worm of the Ephemerus is winged, why it is called the efca or bait; and how long it lives 106 CHAP. >. Defcribes the external parts of the efca or bait, its colour, and the difference in its manners and difpofition I07 C H A P. VI. The anatomy of the internal parts of the Ephe¬ merus I0y C H A P. VII. The figns by which to difcover, whether the Ephemerus is to fly in a (hort time ; as alfo what may prevent it, and to what order of natural changes it belongs 113 CHAP. VIII. How and in what a wonderful manner the Worm is tranformed into an Ephemerus ib. C H A P. IX. How long the Ephemerus lives, and what haftens its death 117 C H A P. X. That the Ephemerus kind flies three days, and lometimes four: certain other fpecies are alfo defcribed 118 THE THIRD ORDER. Of the natural changes or flow accretions of the parts of infeds 119 A catalogue of the infeds which belong to the third order of natural changes, called the Nymph 121 The third order or clafs of natural changes, according to the firft fpecies or method, which we have called Amply the Nymph, exemplified in the Ant 12Ó Of certain other kinds of Ants, fome of which fpin like Silkworms 130 A very curious hiftory of the Rhinoceros or horned Beetle, illuflrated with accurate figures 131 CHAP. I. Of the places wherein thefe Beetles live, of their generation, eggs, Worms, and food ; how long they are feeding; with various other uncommon incidents. 132 CHAP. II. The name of the Worm out of which the RhinocerosBeetle is produced, alfo its external parts, difpofition, and motions; that it loves heat, and that it cafls a fkin, with other inci¬ dents tending to illuftrate this iubjed 1^4 C PI A P. III. The anatomy of the Coflus. The manner in which it is to be killed. Its blood, heart, fat, pulmonary tubes, throat, 'ftomach, fpinai marrow, and the nervus recurrens. Whether the Coflus is eatable. How it may be fea- foned or preferved, with fome uncommon obfervations 136 CHAP. IV. The manner wherein the Worm is changed: how its inward parts are transformed in their increaie and growth, and the wonderful metamorphofis of the Worm into a Nymph. Alfo the method whereby the points of ref- piration, or breathing holes, are tranfpofed : to which are added, many uncommon obfer¬ vations in g C H A P. V. N what manner the Nymph is filled with a fuperfluous moifture, which afterwards eva¬ porates. The anatomy of the Nymph. How, on calling off its fkin, it becomes a Beetle; with fome wonderful difcoveries in natural hiftory 144 CHAP. VI. . The difference between the male and female Rhinoceros Beetle, after the Nymph cafls its fkin,