The Life of Jean Henri Fabre 



of April 3rd, we must at least mention M. 

 Perrier's, from which we give an extract on 

 the first page of this book. It may be found 

 in extenso in the Revue scientifique for the 

 7th of May, 1910. The series of toasts was 

 followed by the reading of numerous tele- 

 grams of congratulation, the most loudly 

 applauded of these being that of M. Edmond 

 Rostand, which ran as follows: 



Prevented from being in your midst, I am never- 

 theless in spirit with those who are to-day honour- 

 ing a man worthy of all admiration, one of the 

 purest glories of France, the great scientist whose 

 work I admire, the profound and racy poet, the 

 Virgil of the insects, who has brought us to our 

 knees in the grass, the hermit whose life is the most 

 wonderful example of wisdom, the noble figure 

 that, under its black felt hat, makes Serignan the 

 complement of Maillane. 



It must be recorded that Maillane had 

 cordially united with Serignan, and that 

 poetry and science were at one in celebrating 

 the fame of the man who has justly been 

 called the poet of entomology. 



Such, in its most salient features, was the 

 festival which consecrated, a little late in the 

 day, one of our purest national glories. 



This homage had not the ephemeral char- 

 acter of most jubilees, even scientific ones. It 

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