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These two cases, with others of a similar character, were first called cases of "mimicry" by Kirby and Spence, in their ever-delightful Introduction to Entomology an old book, but, curiously enough in these days of popular treatises on all matters of the kind, still the only general work on insects in the English language which one who is not an entomologist can read with pleasure.
Must be an entomologist coleopterist preferred. Apply, in person, at 77B, Brook Street. Application must be made before twelve o'clock today." Now, I have already said that I was devoted to zoology. Of all branches of zoology, the study of insects was the most attractive to me, and of all insects beetles were the species with which I was most familiar.
Our convalescent little ones hourly forgot how gravely far they were from being well, and it became one of our heavy cares to keep the entomologist from entomologizing and from overeating. From time to time, when shorthanded we had used skilled nurses; but when Mrs. Fontenette grew haggard and we mentioned them, she said distressfully: "O! no hireling hands!
Thus to give a single instance no man can now be a first-rate botanist unless he be also no mean meteorologist, no mean geologist, and as Mr. Darwin has shown in his extraordinary discoveries about the fertilisation of plants by insects no mean entomologist likewise.
Them bugs kick off minutes and seconds industrious and beautiful. So, this man I was speaking of cleaned up $288; and then he went away, because he knew that when it came time to wind watches in Little Rock an entomologist would be needed, and he wasn't one. "So, as I say, Henry had $360, and I had $288.
"An entomologist, I suppose," suggested Miss Scaife. "He chases butterflies in the Governor's garden, and swears when he doesn't catch them!" "He fears not God, neither regards the Governor," remarked Dick, with a solemn shake of his head. "Don't be flippant, Dick," said Lady Eynesford sharply. "He might at least brush the knees of his trousers," moaned Captain Heseltine. Meanwhile Mr.
"For instance I find you passably disdainful for an entomologist!" "Entomologist, it may be," replied Cousin Benedict, "but more particularly hexapodist, Captain Hull, please remember." "At all events," replied Captain Hull, "if these crustaceans do not interest you, it can't be helped; but it would be otherwise if you possessed a whale's stomach. Then what a regale! Do you see, Mrs.
Nevertheless the Cerceris makes no mistake: all this nation of insects, so indifferently attired, represents to her, as to the entomologist, the nation of the Buprestes.
A society may call itself an Entomological Society, but the man who arrogates such a broad title as that to himself, in the present state of science, is a pretender, sir, a dilettante, an impostor! No man can be truly called an entomologist, sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.
The truth is, my guest was an entomologist, and in the pursuit of the objects of his study was evidently prepared to approach hardships and danger with a serenity that would not have been unworthy of the apostle of a new religion.
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