Insect Miscellanies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Insect Miscellanies

IT was well said by the distinguished Danish natu ralist, Fabricius, that nothing in natural history is more abstruse and difficult than an accurate descrip tion of the senses of animals This inherent complexity of the subject appears to have induced Lehmann to undertake the investigation of the senses Of insects He collected into a focus all that was known previous to his time, though he has added very little from his own observation; but since that period much has been done by Marcel de Serres, Wollaston, Muller, and others.

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