CONTENTS. 



31. Its doors. 32. The sur- i 

 rounding antechambers and corri- | 

 dors. 33. The nurseries. 34. | 

 Their walls and partitions. 35. i 

 Their position varied according to 

 the exigencies of the colony. 36. i 

 The continual repair and altera- 

 tions of the habitation. 37. 

 Peculiar mould which coats the j 

 walls. 38. The store-rooms for 

 provisions the inclined paljis | 

 which approach them the curious : 

 gothic arches which surmount the 

 apartments. 39. The subterra- j 

 nean passages, galleries, and I 

 tunnels. 40. The covered ways 

 by which the habitation is ap- 

 proached. 41. The gradients or 

 slopes which regulate these co- 

 vered ways. 42. The bridges by 

 which they pass from one part of ' 

 the habitation to another. 43. j 

 Reflections on these wonderful ; 

 works. 44. The tenderness of ' 

 their bodies render covered ways 

 necessary. 45. When forced to 

 travel above ground they make a 

 covered way if it be accidentally 

 destroyed they will reconstruct it. 

 CHAP. II. 46. Turrets built by the 

 Termes mordax and the Termes 

 atrox. 47. Description of their 

 structure. 48. Their king, queen, 

 worker, and soldier. 49. Inter- 

 nal structure of their habitation. 

 50. Nests of the Termes arbo- 

 rum. 51. Process of their con- 

 struction. 52. Hill nests on the 

 Savannahs. 53. The Termes luci- 

 fugus the organisation of their 

 societies. 54. Habits of the 

 workers and soldiers the mate- 

 rials they use for building. 

 55. Their construction of tunnels. 

 56. Nests of the Termes arbo- 



rum in the roofs of houses. 57. 

 Destructive habits of the Termes 

 bellicosus in excavating all species 

 of wood-work entire houses de- 

 stroyed by them. 58. Curious 

 process by which they fill with 

 mortar the excavations which they 

 make destruction of Mr. Smeath- 

 man's microscope. 59. Destruc- 

 tion of shelves and wainscoting. 

 60. Their artful process to escape 

 observation. 61. Anecdotes of 

 them by Kcempfer and Humboldt. 

 62. Destruction of the Gover- 

 nor's house at Calcutta destruc- 

 tion by them of a British ship of 

 the line. 63. Their manner of 

 attacking timber in the open air 

 their wonderful power of de- 

 stroying fallen timber. 64. The 

 extraordinary behaviour of the 

 soldiers when a nest is attacked. 

 65. Their rage and fury against 

 those who attack them. 66. Their 

 industry and promptitude in re- 

 pairing the damage of their habi- 

 tation. 67. The vigilance of the 

 soldiers during the process of re- 

 pair. 68. Effects of a second 

 attack on their habitation, con- 

 duct of the soldiers. 69. Diffi- 

 culty of investigating the structure 

 of their habitations obstinate 

 opposition of the soldiers dis- 

 covery of the royal chamber 

 fidelity of the subjects to the 

 sovereign curious experiment of 

 Mr. Smeathman. 70. Curious 

 example of the repair of a par- 

 tially destroyed nest. 71. The 

 marching Termites curious ob- 

 servation of their proceedings by 

 Smeathman remarkable conduct 

 of the soldiers on the occasion. 



INSTINCT AND INTELLIGENCE. 



CHAP. I. 1. Instinct defined. 

 2. Independent of experience or 

 practice. 3. Sometimes directed 

 by appetite. 4. A simple faculty 



independent of memory. 5. In- 

 stinctive distinguished from intel- 

 ligent acts. 6. Instinct and in- 

 telligence always co-exist. 7. 



