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BA RD WICKE'S SCIENCE- G OS SI P. 



I am naturally a modest man, but I saw that this was 

 a golden opportunity for descanting on the wonders of 

 visible and invisible things ; and as my host and his 

 circle of acquaintances assured me after the conversa- 

 tion was over that it had been immensely interesting, 



the way in which certain things get left behind in the 

 race of life, is that which these innocent mites afford 

 us." 



" Indeed, I never care to see a piece of live cheese 

 now," said my friend. " This is a case in which ' a 



[Fig. no. — Stone-mite [Tetranychus lapidus). From 

 Taylor's " Playtime Naturalist." 



Fig. III.— Under side oi Arremtnts ^erforafus. Male [highly mag.). 



Fig. 112. — Arrenurus ellipticus. Male (mag.) 



I have ventured to make that piece of table-talk take 

 its place by the side of Landor's, Coleridge's, and 

 Luther's, in the hope that I, like them, may hereby 

 gain immortality. 



" A. wonderful instance," Tbegan to explain, " of 



little knowledge is a dangerous thing,' and I grant 

 the truth of the adage ' where ignorance is bliss 'tis 

 folly to be wise.' I wish I had never seen a piece of 

 mitey cheese under a magnifying-glass." 

 I thereupon undertook to prove to him that even a 



