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A discussion on this subject was held recently at the Amor- ioan Natural History Museum, under the auspices of the Now York Academy of Sciences, four exports taking part. Our quota- tions are from a report in the New York Times. Dr. F. E. Lutz, associated with the museum, spoke on the sounde máda by in- sects. Many of the striking characteristios of animale and plants are of no use to their poss- essors, or to any other areature, in his bellof. Wo road:
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"Whatever may be true of vortebrates, the significance of insect sounds is still an open sub- ject and, while it is altogether probablo that some of those so- unds do have a biological signifi- cance, many of them have none, being merely incidental to struct ures that have arison for some totally different purpose, or for no purpose at all.
"A large portion of the sounds made by vortobrate, animals aro vooal. Insoots have no' lungs, most
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of the sounds they make! may bo called mechanical. He explained that they produced such mechanical sounds in two ways-by striking two parts of the body together and by friction.
"Honey bees and certain flies! when captured seem to utter an exceedingly shrill warning note. For a long time it was supposed to be vocal, but it is now known that the shrill note is caused by the rapid beating of the winga against the body.
"This shrill sound, said Dr. Lutz is merely an incidont to the extra-vigorous working of the wing muscles under the excite- ment of being captured. It has recently boon proved that insects. pay little attention to the sounds audible to human ears."
seems more
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GARDEN OF EDEN,"
New Wembley Attractions."
Lighting arrangements at Wom- worth bloy this year are to be " do.oxbibition all to themselves."
Oné old oak is boing temporari- ly transformed into a fruit tree. covered with luminous applos of snormous sizo. Entwined around the trunk will be a forbidding studded with green serpont lamps, giving the effect of a mintature" Garden of Eden,"
Two illuminated columns 40ft. high are to be placed in the North Gardens and at the south-west entrance. They will have the appearance of pillars of fire.
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In King's Way 60 tall stan- MOSQUITOES
dards are being erected, each of which will be fitted with festoons of lamps.
ILLUMINATED CROCODILE. Concealed coloured lights will throw into relief the oolonnades of the Palace of Enginearing and Paleos of Industry, and will flood the background of the buildings with constantly changing colour. On the tops of these buildings will be columns of steam bathed in light, which will be always changing in colour.
On the lake will be illuminat- ad ewans, ducks, Noah's Arks. and water lilies floating by the wator's edge, and on the lawns lifeliko penguins, frogs, huge snails and other fantastic ani
crocodile with a mals. A luminous body will move about in the water, and the trees will be alive with flocks of coloured parrots and owls.
Many of the principal build- ings will be outlined with electric lamps in selected colours, and some of the garden beds will be similarly treated.
A battery of searchlights is being lont by the authorities.
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A young girl should be bright Not even the silent depths of and full of ouergy. The pink flush the 800 Bro without Bound, of health should be on hor checks. according to Dr. C. M. Breder, She ought to be irresistible. Life Jr., who is associated with the is at its best. She should not be New York City Aquarium. In tired and wan, too languid to spite of the difficulty of studying enjoy plain food, too shy and fishes, it has been established timid to attract anyone, often be- that they heat. Said Dr. Breder: ing ill for a day and having to be "We also know that many in bed, and looking limp and un-
happy whou out walking. fishes are capable of pro- She should be full of vitality, ducing sounds by. various
hungry for her meals, glad to help moane, and it than mere coincidence that fishes with the housework, fond of an with definite voices generally evening's rocreation, walking with a spring in her hools, In co have well-developed cars. far as water is an excellent trans-sunshine in her eyes, and the joy mitter of sound, it is difficult to of living in her soul. imagine that such noises as the fishes make are not of some direct loss, with no colour in her lipa influence, as, for instance, in the and chooke, anaemic, dull-look- gathering together in schools of ing, will improve wonderfully proved that you broke into the scattered individuals for the pue-under the influence of the new same house twice in one week." blood that Dr. Williams' Pink Culprit Yes 1. The shortage pose of procreation. We have no
Pills can give her. She will gain of houses is terrible 1-" experimental evidence of this.
Passing Show, London, vitality and attractiveness, grow "He advanced the supposition healthy and jolly, get rid of all that the volume of sounds pro- her langour and lassitude. duced by the feeding of a great It is worth while to join the number of fishes might be auffi throng of rosy young womanhood, cient to attract others serving as when all you need is Dr. Wil- well as a warning to those fed liams' Pink Pills. All obomists, upon. And even the motion of sell them, or post free, $1.50 per swimming might, in the case of a bottle six bottles, $8. from the large school, bo compared in a Dr. Williams' Modicine Co., 60 way to the sound of a cataract, Kiangse Road, Shanghai. caused by the cumulative bursting
of myriad bubbles. In the lower
New York Bay Dr. Breder has
A girl who is thin and breath-
"Another theory, the direct
seen two shoals of menhaden malos that this "territory is connect directly through the occupied sewage-fouled water in 's mannor which suggested some such re- opposite to the last, has recently cognition.
been well formulated by Professor Boker. He concludes that song REPTILIAN "LANGUAGE"
has no breeding significance, but "Among the reptilia the croco- it is a product of the high diles bollow foudly during the paychical development of the mating season. Lizards fre- birds, and that they do not sing quently seem voiceless, but when they do not fool well respond to ** sounde. Turtles physically, or when special seem not lo hear in either demands on their vitality use up water or air, and some snakes ap-their emotion in other directions, pear to be nearly, deaf-even theas for instance the cold of winter. Tattler may not hear another's The relation between song and Tattie, though he may be con- the brooding season is a coincid- scious of his own.
once, due to the fact that this
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The sounds made by birde, Dr. season is the period when physical Ludlow Griscom of the Natural vitality and paychic excitement History Museum divided into reach their greatest intensity. two categories-the call rote and White Boker's studios and expari- the song. To call note is alments are entirely accurate, they based chiefly on the language registering different are omotions or conditions. It gives chaffinch.
No species of animal is the cry of alarm, danger, angor, sociability, recognision, and an known, to bo voiceless," said Dr. nounces the discavory'cf food. It H. C. Ravan of the Natural, can be interpreted by Lumans History Museum, and can be understood by birde of Mammals another species, and oven by method of making themselves. hoard. They are able to com mals. He went on:.
most birde song is de- municato by so-called mechanical ely associated with the brood-gounds, by stamping their foet, ing sonson, but some sing after by slapping their tails to the the post-nuptial moult, others ground, snapping, grinding or during the fall migration, and grating their teeth, and are oven! ablo to make themselves board othors throughout the year.
by shaking and vibrating their It is generally established. skins. Dr. Griscom said, that every "The volocs of the smaller pair of birds has a territory durmammals are little known to men ing the breeding poriod, and that because of their. faintness, but the males occupy it first. Song is certain studies have revealed that an advertisement for the later maadow mice understand each arriving females, a notice to other! other's squeaks and respond."
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