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# Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 94

CRESSIDA Heliconides
CRESSIDA Heliconides
Cressida Butterfly.
Sub-Fam. Papilionæ. Genus Papilio. Sub-Genus Cressida. Nobis.
Sub-Generic Character.
Wings diaphanous; posterior perpendicularly elongated, obtusely dentated or scolloped. Antenna stout, the club very thick.
Types, Cressida Heliconides and Harmonides. Sw.
Specific Character.
Anterior wings diaphanous, with the base, and two opaque, costal transverse spots, black; posterior black, with a central white space, and a marginal row of crimson spots, brightest beneath.
Papilio Cressida, Fab. Ent. Sys. 3. 1. p. 20. Don. Ill. of Ent. 3. pl. 12. f. 2. Ency. Meth. p. 76. No. 145.
For a long time, the only museum in Europe which could boast of this butterfly, was that of Sir Joseph Banks; who found it in Van Deimans Land, during his celebrated scientific voyage with Captain Cook. Fabricius, the most eminent entomologist of that day, described the species from this specimen: which, with the whole of the Banksian Cabinet, was presented by its learned and munificent possessor to the Linnæan Society of London, where it still exists. The only published figure is that of Donovans, which is much too small, and is otherwise faulty. The species is still very rare in collections; our own, a fine pair, were received from Van Diemans Land.
Although unacquainted with the larva, and pupa state of this species, nature has stamped the perfect insect with the image of that group she intends it to represent. Its long, narrow, anterior wings, almost transparent, immediately reminds even the unpractised entomologist of the Heliconian butterflys; while the analysis of the genus Papilio, confirms this idea, by shewing that Cressida is the Heliconian type. We scarcely need remind the student of the natural system that if our theory be correct, this representation, under one form or other, will be found to pervade every group of Lepidoptera. In all such as we have yet investigated, this opinion has been fully verified.
# Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 87

SCAPHELLA maculata. Sw. Olive Volute.
SCAPHELLA maculata.
Olive Volute.
Family Volutidæ. Sub-family Volutinæ. Nob.
Generic Character.
Shell fuciform, invariably smooth and polished: spiral whorls gradually diminishing in size, the apex obtuse but rarely thickened or distorted: pillar generally gibbous in the middle, with from four to six thick and unequal plaits: margin of the outer lip thickened.
Typical Species.—Scaph. undulata. Junonia, maculata, zebra.
Aberrant Species.—Scaph. papillaris, elongata (?)
Specific Character.
Shell small, oval, fulvous, with longitudinal purplish-brown spots, disposed in three transverse bands: spire conical: pillar four plaited, not gibbous.
Voluta maculata. Swains. Bligh. Cat. app. p. 11.
Of this distinct and very remarkable genus of Volutes, few species have hitherto been discovered: the subordinate divisions cannot therefore be traced; nor do we feel satisfied that all the typical characters have been detected: we consider it nevertheless, as a perfectly natural genus, absolutely essential to mark the connection between the Volutes and the Marginillæ. Lamark, indeed, as if aware of this affinity, actually describes one species as a Marginilla. The union of the three aberrant genera of Scaphella, Volutilithes, and Harpula, into one circle, is effected by the Scap. papillaris and the Harpula Lapponica: the former species conducting us at the same time to the typical Volutes, by means of Voluta fulgetrum of Sowerby.
Scaphella maculata is a native of the Australian seas, and is of great rarity. Our drawings were made from one of the beautiful specimens in Mr. Broderip's possession, It is probable that the animals of this genus envelope their shells in an ample mantle, since they are almost always enamelled.
# Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 88

ARCAS Imperialis.
ARCAS imperialis.
Emerald Hair-streak.
Tribe, Papiliones. Family, Polyommatidæ. Sub-family, Theclanæ, Nob.
Sub-Generic Character.
Palpi, in both sexes, very long, thick, porrect, twice as long as the head, curved downwards, all the joints entirely covered with close-set scales, posterior wings six-tailed.
Specific Character.
Above shining blue: beneath emerald-green, marked with minute black waved lines.
Papilio imperialis. Cramer, Pl. 75. f. E. F.
Hesperia Venus. Fab. Ent. Sys. 3. 1. 268.
It is impossible to depicture with correctness, the resplendant blue which ornaments the upper surface, or the vivid emerald green on the under wings, of this rare and splendid insect. It is possessed by few collectors; nor did we capture more than three specimens, during two years devoted to the entomology and ornithology of Brazil. The male is distinguished by a black central spot on the anterior wings. The very remarkable prolongation of the palpi, which are alike in both sexes, induces us to consider this insect as a type of form, or in other words, a sub-genus: but we are at present unprepared to state any thing satisfactory on its true affinities.
We have thought it right in this and other instances, to retain the original specific name of Cramer; and we shall do the same in all instances where it will not produce a discordant union of generic and specific names. On this head, as the principle of Linnæus, from the great number of new genera since defined, can no longer be acted upon, we think that specific appellations, derived from some character of the insect, are much better, in every respect, than attempting to render the nomenclature of the Lepidoptera a correct index to the mythology of the Ancients.
# Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 91

GEOTROCHUS pileus. Cap Land-Trochus.
GEOTROCHUS pileus.
Cap-shaped Land-trochus.
Order Phytophages. Swains. Tribe ——
Sub-Generic Character.
Shell pyramidical, each volution, reckoning from the base, gradually diminishing and forming a conic spire, basal volution depressed, margin of the outer lip reflected and entire.
Specific Character.
Shell trochiform, smooth, generally banded with reddish and yellowish bands: volutious convex.
Trochus Pileus. Chemnetz. Pl. 122. f. 1046-7-8.
Helix pileus. Dillwyn. p. 933. No. 106.
Lister. Tab. 14. f. 11.
In Mus. Nost.
Although this shell, in artificial arrangements, may be very well placed among the sub-divisions of Helix or Bulimus, we feel persuaded that it is, naturally, the type of a Sub-genus: we have no hesitation, therefore, in recording it as such. Another species, sharply carinated, semi-transparent, and of a milky whiteness, we discovered in Brazil: and we are thus led to conclude that the habitat of Geotrochus pileus, which no author has yet mentioned, may probably be Tropical America.
The figures of this species, given by Chemnitz and Born, represent it as marked by several narrow bands of a rufous brown colour: but the variety here delineated, has only one, of a deep purple; it is almost the only specimen answering to this description, which we have yet seen: both varieties are very rare, and much prized by collectors.
# Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 93

PROTESILAUS Leilus.
PROTESILAUS Leilus,
Protesilaus Butterfly.
Genus Amphrisius, Sw. Sub-genus Protesilaus, Sw.
Sub-generic Characters.
Wings trigonal, acute, yellow with black transverse bands; the inferior lengthened, narrowed, with two long acute tails; antennæ short, the club thick, slightly compressed, but solid, and convex all round; front very hairy; Larva covered with sharp spines. Pupa braced, but suspended downwards.
Type, Pap. Protesilaus. Auct.
Specific Character.
Wings straw-colour; the superior with four, short, black, costal bands towards the base, and two towards the exterior margin; the latter uniting at the posterior angle.
Pap. Protesilaus. Lin. Fab. Ent. Sys. 3. pl. p. 23. Ency. Meth. p. 50. Merian Sur. pl. 43. Cramer, pl. 202. f. a. b.
From the resemblance which this insect bears to the rare British species, named by collectors the scarce Swallow-tail, (Papilio Podalirius,) it is generally called the Brazilian Swallow-tail. We advert to this circumstance, trivial as it may sound to scientific ears, first because it is one of the many proofs in which the nomenclature of the vulgar conveys greater information than that of the professor: and secondly, because these very names, in numberless instances, imply a perception of natural analogies, which, without the labour of philosophic research, suggest themselves to unscientific observers. In the present instance, these facts may be verified in the most unquestionable manner. According to our views, Protesilaus not only represents one of the primary groups of the Lepidoptera, but also typifies the Fissirostral birds, of which the swallows are the most pre-eminent.
Madam Merian's valuable work on the Insects of Surinam, has furnished us with a figure of the larva; which, unlike that of the European Swallow-tails, is covered with spines: the chrysalis also departs from the usual type of the family, in having the head directed downwards. These facts we have verified by an inspection of the original drawings, of M. Merian, now deposited in the British Museum. These are all important variations in structure, which can only be explained by the natural system.
# Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 86

GARRULUS SORDIDUS. Dusky bodied Jay.
GARRULUS sordidus.
Dusky-bodied Jay.
Family Corvidæ. Sub-family Garulinæ. Nob. See Northern Zoology, 2. p. 288.
Specific Character.
Above dusky blue, brighter upon the crown, wings, and tail; beneath grey; chin and belly whiteish; ears blackish; tail distinctly rounded.
Garrulus sordidus. Swains. Synopsis, No. 66. (Phil. Mag. June 1827.)
The Jays, although allied to the Crows, have many peculiar characteristics. While the latter roam about and seek their food in all situations, the Jays confine themselves to thick woods, feeding upon fruits, insects, and eggs, and seldom perch upon the ground. In unison with that symbolical system which pervades all nature, we find a perfect representation of this group in the Bush-Shrikes of the new world.
America seems to possess three Jays, closely resembling each other, but each (if they have been described correctly) having some peculiar distinction. As these have not been clearly stated, and as some confusion has consequently crept into the subject, we shall shortly state their distinctions. The Florida Jay of Prince C. Bonaparte, (G. Floridamus) which has been thought the same as ours, is a much smaller bird, being only 11½ in. long, and the back is "yellowish brown," not dusky blue, (See Bon. Am. Orn. 2. p. 61.) The Garrulus ultramarinus of the same noble and learned writer, appears to us from the following account, to be distinct from either. "Its principal characters may be found in its larger dimensions, but especially in the shape of its tail, which is perfectly even, and not in the least cuneiform, as it generally is in all the Jays," (Am. Orn. 2. 62.) Now the tail of our species is decidedly rounded, the outer feather being full one inch shorter than the middle.
The Garrulus sordidus inhabits the table land of Mexico, from whence our specimen was received. Total length, 11 in.: bill, 1½: wings, 7: tarsi, 1$^7$⁄$_{10}$: tail, 6½ in.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Partridge and the Fowler

THE PARTRIDGE AND THE FOWLER
A FOWLER caught a Partridge in his nets, and was just about to wring its neck when it made a piteous appeal to him to spare its life and said, “Do not kill me, but let me live and I will repay you for your kindness by decoying other partridges into your nets.” “No,” said the Fowler, “I will not spare you. I was going to kill you anyhow, and after that treacherous speech you thoroughly deserve your fate.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ploughman and the Wolf

THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE WOLF
A PLOUGHMAN loosed his oxen from the plough, and led them away to the water to drink. While he was absent a half-starved Wolf appeared on the scene, and went up to the plough and began chewing the leather straps attached to the yoke. As he gnawed away desperately in the hope of satisfying his craving for food, he somehow got entangled in the harness, and, taking fright, struggled to get free, tugging at the traces as if he would drag the plough along with him. Just then the Ploughman came back, and seeing what was happening, he cried, “Ah, you old rascal, I wish you would give up thieving for good and take to honest work instead.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Parrot and the Cat

THE PARROT AND THE CAT
A MAN once bought a Parrot and gave it the run of his house. It revelled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart’s content. The noise disturbed the Cat, who was asleep on the hearthrug. Looking up at the intruder, she said, “Who may you be, and where have you come from?” The Parrot replied, “Your master has just ​bought me and brought me home with him.” “You impudent bird,” said the Cat, “how dare you, a newcomer, make a noise like that? Why, I was born here, and have lived here all my life, and yet, if I venture to mew, they throw things at me and chase me all over the place.” “Look here, mistress,” said the Parrot, “you just hold your tongue. My voice they delight in; but yours—yours is a perfect nuisance.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Pig and the Sheep

THE PIG AND THE SHEEP
A PIG found his way into a meadow where a flock of Sheep were grazing. The shepherd caught him, and was proceeding to carry him off to the butcher’s when he set up a loud squealing and struggled to get free. The Sheep rebuked him for making such a to-do, and said to him, “The shepherd catches us regularly and drags us off just like that, and we don’t make any fuss.” “No, I dare say not,” replied the Pig, “but my case and yours are altogether different: he only wants you for wool, but he wants me for bacon.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Prophet

THE PROPHET
A PROPHET sat in the market-place and told the fortunes of all who cared to engage his services. Suddenly there came running up one who told him that his house had been. broken into by thieves, and that they had made off with everything they could lay hands on. He was up in a moment, and rushed off, tearing his hair and calling down curses on the miscreants. The bystanders were much amused, and one of them said, “Our friend professes to know what is going to happen to others, but it seems he’s not clever enough to perceive what’s in store for himself.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Peacock and Juno

THE PEACOCK AND JUNO
THE Peacock was greatly discontented because he had not a beautiful voice like the nightingale, and he went and complained to Juno about it. “The nightingale’s song,” said he, “is the envy of all the birds; but whenever I utter a sound I become a laughing-stock.” The goddess tried to console him by saying, “You have not, it is true, the power of song, but then you far excel all the rest in beauty: your neck flashes like the emerald and your splendid tail is a marvel of gorgeous colour.” But the Peacock was not appeased. “What is the use,” said he, “of being beautiful, with a voice like mine?” Then Juno replied, with a shade of sternness in her tones, “Fate has allotted to all their destined gifts: to yourself beauty, to the eagle strength, to the nightingale song, and so on to all the rest in their degree; but you alone are dissatisfied with your portion. Make, then, no more complaints: for, if your present wish were granted, you would quickly find cause for fresh discontent.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Peasant and the Apple-tree

THE PEASANT AND THE APPLE-TREE
A PEASANT had an Apple-tree growing in his garden, which bore no fruit, but merely served to provide a shelter from the heat for the sparrows and grasshoppers which sat and chirped in its branches. Disappointed at its barrenness he determined to cut it down, and went and fetched his axe for the purpose. But when the sparrows and the grasshoppers saw what he was about to do, they begged him to spare it, and said to him, “If you destroy the tree we shall have to seek shelter elsewhere, and you will no longer have our merry chirping to enliven your work in the garden.” He, however, refused to listen to them, and set to work with a will to cut through the trunk. A few strokes showed that it was hollow inside and contained a swarm of bees and a large store of honey. Delighted with his find he threw down his axe, saying, “The old tree is worth keeping after all.”
Utility is most men’s test of worth.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Pomegranate, The Apple-tree, and the Bramble

THE POMEGRANATE, THE APPLE-TREE, AND THE BRAMBLE
A POMEGRANATE and an Apple-tree were disputing about the quality of their fruits, and each claimed that its own was the better of the two. High words passed between them, and a violent quarrel was imminent, when a Bramble impudently poked its head out of a neighbouring hedge and said, “There, that’s enough, my friends; don’t let us quarrel.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Peacock and the Crane

THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE
A PEACOCK taunted a Crane with the dullness of her plumage. “Look at my brilliant colours,” said she, “and see how much finer they are than your poor feathers.” “I am not denying,” replied the Crane, “that yours are far gayer than mine; but when it comes to flying I can soar into the clouds, whereas you are confined to the earth like any dunghill cock.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ploughman, the Ass, and the Ox

THE PLOUGHMAN, THE ASS, AND THE OX
A PLOUGHMAN yoked his Ox and his Ass together, and set to work to plough his field. It was a poor makeshift of a team, but it was the best he could do, as he had but a single Ox. At the end of the day, when the beasts were loosed from the yoke, the Ass said to the Ox, “Well, we’ve had a hard day: which of us is to carry the master home?” The Ox looked surprised at the question. “Why,” said he, “you, to be sure, as usual.”
# Wheeler v. Smith

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United States Supreme Court
50 U.S. 55
Wheeler v. Smith

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# Wheeler v. Plumas/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
196 U.S. 562
Wheeler v. Plumas
Argued: January 12, 1905. --- Decided: February 20, 1905
This case was submitted with Flanigan v. Sierra County, 196 U.S. 553, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 314, 49 L. ed. 597. It is also an action for the recovery of a sum of $2,100, alleged to be due for license tax, and $50 damages. The taxes were imposed under an ordinance of the county of Plumas, substantially similar to the ordinance passed on in Flanigan v. Sierra County. The action was brought in the superior court of Plumas county, and removed, upon the petition of the petitioners herein, to the circuit court for the northern district of California. In that court petitioners demurred to the complaint, which, being overruled, and they declining to answer, judgment was taken against them by default. It was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals.
The questions are identical with those passed on in Flanigan v. Sierra County, and on the authority of that case the judgment is reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings.

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# Wheeler v. Sedgwick/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
94 U.S. 1
Wheeler v. Sedgwick
We find no error in this record. To say the least, there was some evidence before the jury tending to prove the items of the account upon which the suit was brought, and the court, therefore, properly refused to instruct the jury to find for the defendant.
The jury were not instructed that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the amount of $26,458.90 at all events, but only in case all the questions in dispute were found in his favor. That there was no controversy as to the amount of the recover, if the other questions were settled in favor of the plaintiff, is evident from the fact that a witness was called, who, without objection, furnished the jury a calculation of interest upon the several items of the account as stated. No exception was taken to the charge as given upon the material points in litigation between the parties.
The attention of the court below was not called to the particular objection now taken to the recovery of one-half the amount shown to be due upon the account headed, 'G. M. W. Chic. and N. W. account,' to wit, that it was a joint account of the defendant and one of the bankrupts, and that the defendant could not be sued upon it alone. This being the case, it is too late to make it now. The exception, as it appears in the record, is 'to the ruling that the plaintiff was entitled to recover $26,458.90.' If it was desired to exclude the item of $6,125.62 because of the non-joinder of another party originally interested in that part of the account, the point should have been distinctly and specifically made, and an appropriate exception taken upon the record. The evidence to prove this item in the account was not objected to. The question put to the witness Comstock, which was objected to, was not answered.
We see nothing in the exceptions to the rulings of the court upon the admissibility of testimony which requires particular mention, as we are satisfied of their correctness.
Judgment affirmed.

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# Wheeler v. Plumas

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United States Supreme Court
196 U.S. 562
Wheeler v. Plumas
Argued: January 12, 1905. --- Decided: February 20, 1905
Messrs.
Joseph C. Campbell, C. C. Cole, and Thomas H. Breeze for petitioners.
Messrs. U.S. Webb, C. N. Post, and L. N. Peter for respondent.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Wheeler v. Sage

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United States Supreme Court
68 U.S. 518
Wheeler v. Sage

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# Wheeler v. Sohmer

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United States Supreme Court
233 U.S. 434
Wheeler v. Sohmer
Argued: November 5 and 6, 1913. --- Decided: April 20, 1914
Mr. Charles P. Howland for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 434-437 intentionally omitted]
Mr. William Law Stout for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the judgment of the court:

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# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/Prometheus and the Making Of Man

PROMETHEUS AND THE MAKING OF MAN
AT the bidding of Jupiter, Prometheus set about the creation of Man and the other animals. Jupiter, seeing that Mankind, the only rational creatures, were far outnumbered by the irrational beasts, bade him redress the balance by turning some of the latter into men. Prometheus did as he was bidden, and this is the reason why some people have the forms of men but the souls of beasts.