INSECT ARCHITECTURE

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

INSECT ARCHITECTURE

BY

JAMES RENNIE

NEW EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED

BY THE REV. J. G. WOOD, M.A.

AUTHOR OF “HOMES WITHOUT HANDS,” ETC.

WITH NEARLY TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:
BELL AND DALDY, YORK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.

1869.

EDITOR’S PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

The proprietors of this interesting work having felt that much additional knowledge of the subject has been obtained since the book was written, have asked me to supply characteristic examples of Insect Architecture which were not to be found in its pages. I have accordingly added a considerable number of such examples, in most cases accompanied by figures drawn from the specimens described. I have not been at liberty to alter or expunge, and am not, therefore, responsible for any portion of the letterpress except those passages which are enclosed in brackets [   ]. Some of the specimens from which the figures have been drawn are in my own collection, but the greater part are to be found in the British Museum.

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