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A History of the County of Somerset
… attention from the late Mr. W. Baker, who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset … It must however be admitted that in a county possessing about seventy miles of seaboard and such a variety of hill … peat-moor country, for almost absolutely nothing is known about its summer visitors, and the ornithologist can but …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and varied flora, and justifies our expectation of finding an equally rich and varied insect fauna. In the early part of … represented in Britain, the total number of species being about forty-two. There are six species of earwig, only two of … Taunton by Mr. Rawlinson ( Zoologist, xv.). Probably a mistake] galii, Schiff. Bridgwater (Dale, Newman and others), …
A History of the County of Somerset
… pilosus and I. teutonicus. Setting aside the last-named, about which there is room for doubt, it is safe to prophesy … a pebbly beach some two miles south of Portishead, under an accumulation of decaying seaweed marking the last high … In these globe-forming animals the breadth is commonly about half the length. The species A. nasatum, meaning the …