Note 1 — Chapter iv · THE BOTANICAL INSTINCT
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With such primitive habits as these, which emancipate the family at birth, without the least previous training, how far removed are we from the maternal tenderness of the Copris,1 the Necrophorus,2 the Sphex3 and so many others! Apart from these privileged tribes, there is nothing very striking to be noted. It is enough to fill with despair the observer in search of facts really worth recording.