INSECT INSTRUMENTALISTS ALLARD 591 



musical specializations as remarkable as those I have shown to exist 

 with our own larger angular-winged katydid, Microce7itimm 

 rhoviMfoliuTTi. 



This specialized interest may seem very remote from our practical 

 affairs of a mechanized age, but the basis of all pure science is 

 healthful curiosity; and truth, whatever its nature or revelations, 

 is worthy of record in the archives of men. The singing cricket on 

 my hearth may not add to the contents of my pocketbook, but at 

 times it affords an indefinable inspiration and poetry that reveals 

 new beauties of living, of expression, and of association in the uni- 

 verse. I am better, broader, wiser, happier for having heard the 

 crickets and katydids, for somehow there are points of kinship in 

 our lives, even though our magnitudes and roles of living seem so 

 far apart. 



