 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - Страниц: 542
...have been surrounded by insects. One evening, when we were about ten miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of countless myriads, extended as far as the eye-could range. Even by the aid of a telescope it was not possible to see a space free from butterflies.... | |
 | 1915 - Страниц: 366
...verse for instances of butterfly swarms seen at sea or migrating long distances ; Darwin records " vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of...myriads, extended as far as the eye could range," when he was in the ' Beagle ' some miles off the mouth of the Plata. Then there is Lyell's well-known... | |
 | Arthur Landsborough Thomson - 1926 - Страниц: 376
...Darwin, who wrote of it as follows : " One evening, when we were about 10 miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of Butterflies in bands or flocks of...the aid of a telescope it was not possible to see the space free from Butterflies. The seamen cried out that 'it was snowing Butterflies,' and such in... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - Страниц: 508
...have been surrounded by insects. One evening, when we were about ten miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of...as far as the eye could range. Even by the aid of a glass it was not possible to see a space free from butterflies. The seamen cried out 'it was snowing... | |
 | Charles Leonard Hogue - 1993 - Страниц: 568
...best seen. Darwin (1962) tells of a time when the Beagle was some miles off the mouth of La Plata: "vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of...butterflies,' and such in fact was the appearance." Such migrations are even recognized by a special word in the widespread Tupi language, punapand, The... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - Страниц: 382
...have been surrounded by insects. One evening, when we were about ten miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of...as far as the eye could range. Even by the aid of a glass it was not possible to see a space free from butterflies. The seamen cried out 'it was snowing... | |
 | Peter H. Spectre - 2007 - Страниц: 114
...have been surrounded by insects. One evening, when we were about ten miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of...Even by the aid of a telescope it was not possible to sec a space free from butterflies. The seamen cried out "it was snowing butterflies," and such in fact... | |
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Patagonia, we have been surrounded by insects. One evening, when we were about ten miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of countless myriads, extended as far as the eye could range. Even by the aid of a telescope... 
