THE IXTEREST IX IXSECTS 



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Henri Fabre. 



Henri Fabre, whose portrait appears 

 on another page, is dead, at the fine old 

 age of ninety-tuo years. It is fortunate 

 that he could live so long, for until 

 nearly eighty years old the man whom 



illiterate parents. When only five year^ 

 old, his special bent was indicated in an 

 attempt to find out how the cricket 

 chirped. But he could not take up the 

 investigation of natural history as he 

 wanted to do : he had to earn his living-. 



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\'ictor Hugo described as "the insects' 

 Homer'' remained almost unknown to the 

 world. His life had been one of povertv, 

 sacrifice, and struggle, but of superb per- 

 severance. He was born of humble and 



and became a teacher of mathematics. 

 This, however, did not prevent him from 

 being a tireless and wonderfully success- 

 ful observer of insects. He discovered 

 many facts regarding them, and solved 



