Note 4 — Chapter IV · MINOTAURUS TYPHŒUS: THE BURROW
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The rest of the family, including the mother—and she not the least eager—usually go with us. You cannot employ too many eyes when the pit becomes deep and you have to observe from a distance the tiny objects unearthed by the spade. What one overlooks another will detect. Huber,4 when he was blind, studied the Bees through the intermediary of a clear-sighted and devoted helper. I am even better off than the great Swiss naturalist. My sight, which is still fairly good though much worn, is assisted by the perspicacious eyes of all my family. I owe it to them that I am able to continue my research-work: let me thank them here and now.