The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles. Fabre Jean-Henri
Mason-wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. vi. and x. —
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Mites and Ticks. —
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A genus of Beetles of which certain species (
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Another genus of Beetles. The grub of
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Fabre, as a young man, was a master at Avignon College. Cf.
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Jean Marie Léon Dufour (1780-1865), an army surgeon who served with distinction in several campaigns, and subsequently practised as a doctor in the Landes, where he attained great eminence as a naturalist. Fabre often refers to him as the Wizard of the Landes. Cf.
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A genus of Burrowing Bee, the most numerous in species among the British Bees. —
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George Newport (1803-1854), an English surgeon and naturalist, president of the Entomological Society from 1844 to 1845 and an expert in insect anatomy. —
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Thursday is the weekly holiday in French schools. —
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Carolus Linnæus (Karl von Linné, 1707-1778), the celebrated Swedish botanist and naturalist, founder of the Linnæan system of classification. —
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Jean Baptiste Godart (1775-1823), the principal editor of
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Baron Karl de Geer (1720-1778), the Swedish entomologist, author of
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Cf.
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For the Wasp known as the Hairy Ammophila, who feeds her young on the Grey Worm, the caterpillar of the Turnip Moth, cf.