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Margaret Roberts translation
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INSECT LIFE
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MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
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[Frontispiece.
THE SACRED BEETLE.
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INSECT LIFE
SOUVENIRS OF A NATURALIST
J.-H. FABRE DOCTEUR ÈS SCIENCES ‘that inimitable observer.’—Charles Darwin TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘MADEMOISELLE MORI’ WITH A PREFACE BY DAVID SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. AND EDITED BY F. MERRIFIELD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. PRENDERGAST PARKER
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1913
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To the attentive eye the sight of industrial insects exhibiting the most refined art in their labours is a spectacle both strange and sublime. Human Reason is confounded by Instinct thus raised to the highest pitch of which Nature can offer an example, and the perturbation of intelligence increases on observing, patiently and minutely, the details of the life of those creatures most highly endowed with instinct.
E. Blanchard.
First Edition 1901. Reprinted 1913
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