- Eastern Asses
The Ass is mentioned upwards of fifty times in the Bible, and from its having been selected as the animal on which it pleased our Saviour to enter Jerusalem, it carries with it in some respects a higher degree of interest than any other. References to the ass may be grouped under five heads, according to the Hebrew names for the different sorts in the original. These are (1) CHAMOR, which is the ordinary name for the domestic ass, whether male or female, but more properly the male ; (2) ATON, also a domestic ass, but rendered always a she-ass ; (3) AYIR, a colt or young ass ; (4) PERE, wild ass, and (5) AROD, another term for wild ass. In Eastern countries, as Egypt and Syria, the ass is a far more valuable animal, well cared for and fed, and considerably larger in size than in this country. It is capable of a good day's journey at a moderate pace either an easy canter or a less agreeable trot—with a man on its back, and it has a spirited demeanour and wide-awake manner which render it a pleasant quadruped to deal with. The breed is carefully selected, and a well-bred Syrian ass will fetch forty pounds. Their average height is perhaps two to three hands above that in this country. The Palestine asses are the finest in the world. Their colour and markings are much the same everywhere, and no animal has changed so slightly under domestication as the ass. - Syrian Ants
The Ant is mentioned twice in the Old Testament, both times in the Book of Proverbs (vi. 6 and xxx. 25). Ants are characterized as being exceeding wise, and in both passages are commended for their diligence in preparing their food in the summer, thus by their fore-sight providing for their winter sustenance. Such is at least the` obvious implication contained in the text. This habit was, and is still, contradicted by some writers, from their knowledge of the ways of European ants, which are dormant in the winter, and therefore stand in no need of food. - Horned Asp
The Adder is spoken of five times in the Bible, and the word is used as the translation of no less than four distinct Hebrew words. In Gen. 49:17 the Adder is spoken of as hiding in the way and biting the horse's heels so that the rider is overthrown. The Hebrew term in this passage (elsewhere rendered ' cockatrice ') is probably the same word as the modern Arabic name for the Horned Sand Snake or Cerastes haselquistii. It is the habit of this extremely venomous viper to lurk in the ruts of wheels or the depression of a footprint by the roadside, and to bite the legs of unwary passers-by, or of horses or cattle. Horses, aware of its nature, are said to be in terror of the Cerastes, and cannot be induced to proceed, once they have detected the concealed reptile, for its bite is most deadly. It derives its name of ' horned ' from the presence of two protuberances, one over each eye. It is of a grayish tint, about a foot long, and very active. The asp of Cleopatra, ' the pretty worm of Nilus,' has been identified with this animal, which is to be seen figured on ancient Egyptian monuments. [Adder Horned Asp ] - The Caterpillar of the Small Elephant Hawk-moth (Chærocampa porcellus)
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). First stage
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). Second Stage
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). Just before the second moult.
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). Third Stage
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). Fourth Stage
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). Fifth Stage
- The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chærocampa elpenor). Full grown
- The Caterpillar of the Eyed Hawk-Moth (Smerinthus ocellatus)
- The Caterpillar of the Marbled White Butterfly (Arge galathea)
- King Snake
- Rainbow Darter
- Long-eared Sunfish
- Bat
Bat - Sleeping Bat
- Nest of Phœbe
- Nest of Red-eyed Vireo
- Baltimore Oriole and Nest
- A Wolf
- Nest of the Chicadee
- Chipmunk
- Turtle
Turtle - A Lamprey
- Chinch Bug
- Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle
- Pouched Frog
- The Surinam Toad
- Chrysalis of Tomato Worm
- Centipede
- Trout
Trout - Female Stickleback Laying Eggs in Nest
Female Stickleback Laying Eggs in Nest - Male Stickleback Watching Eggs in Nest
Male Stickleback Watching Eggs in Nest - Female Stickleback about to Enter Nest
Female Stickleback about to Enter Nest - Hand of Gorilla, Orang, Gibbon, and Chimpanzee
- Head of Orang-Utan
- chimpanzee
- Gorilla
- tadpoles
- Frog
- A Frog
- Rooster
- Two Species of Caprellidæ
- The Phyllosoma Larva of the Common Spiny Lobster
- The 'Fairy Shrimp' (Chirocephalus diaphanus)
- The Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus,) Female, from the Side
- Young Specimen of an African River Crab
- Gnathophausia willemoesii, One of the Deep-sea Mysidacea
- Gills of the Lobster, exposed by cutting away the Side-flap of the Carapace
- First Larval Stage of the Common Lobster
- First Larval Stage of Munida rugosa
- One of the Abdominal Somites of the Lobster, with its Appendages, separated and viewed from in Front
- Newly-hatched Young of a Crayfish
- Nebalia bipes
- Mysis relicta, One of the Mysidacea
- Meganyctiphanes norvegica, One of the Euphausiacea
- Last Larval Stage of the Common Porcelain Crab
- Larval Stages of the Common Shore Crab