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The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects

Edward Bagnall Poulton

D. Appleton eBooks, 1890

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Abstract

Professor C. Stewart informs me that he has repeated Brewster's original experiment, upon which the above statement depends. He found that the colour was due to a thin layer of shell which had been stripped off

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