Common Insects, as Seen Through the Microscope
Company, Newton And
Excerpt from Common Insects, as Seen Through the Microscope: Written to Accompany a Series of Thirty-Seven Photo-Micrographic Lantern SlidesThese ¿ies glow at night with a peculiar luminosity, similar to that of our glowworms, except that the light is more intense, and proceeds from the thorax, whereas in the glowworm it proceeds from the abdomen. In all cases the cause appears to be a luminous secretion, Dr. Darwin thought of a phosphoric nat...
