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                                 Image number: RS.9961
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Six species of ant
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                                1882
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                West, Newman & Co, Lithographers
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                15204
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 184mm
width (print): 119mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 119mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Six figures of ants. Figure 1 Lasius niger, figure 2 Lasius flavus, figure 3 Formica fusca, figure 4 Myrmica ruginodis, figure 5 Polyergus rufescens, figure 6 Formica sanguinea.
Plate 1 from the book Ants, bees and wasps: a record of observations on the habits of the social hymenoptera by John Lubbock (London, 1882).
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Plate 1 from the book Ants, bees and wasps: a record of observations on the habits of the social hymenoptera by John Lubbock (London, 1882).
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