TWO YOUNG NATURALISTS. 105 



ki Nothing is easier; here is a large grasshopper, 

 and here is an excellent glass ; see then, and believe." 



"Indeed it is true!" said Rene, who had laid 

 aside his brush in order to take the lens that his 

 cousin offered to him. " One ought to look at every- 

 thing in an insect, for all is remarkable, not only the 

 eyes, but the jaws, the antennae, the legs," and as lie 

 was speaking he passed the glass over the various 

 parts of the body of the grasshopper. " Eeally, you 

 should have made me acquainted with all this before." 



" Tt is never too late to mend. Take a good lens, 



FOUR FACETS FROM THE EYE OF A COCKCHAFER. 



a, b, Retina, c, Crystalline cone, d, Curneal facet. 



or a microscope, and any insect whatever, and you 

 find in it a field of study almost unlimited, especially 

 if you are of a mind to examine its anatomy and 

 dissect it. I happen to have, on this glass slide, a 

 splendid specimen : it is the digestive system of a 

 Carabus, that my father has been occupying himself 

 with preparing." 



This beautiful preparation had demanded for its 

 execution the utmost patience and all the skill of a 

 practised and accomplished hand. The three dilata- 



