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work contemplating their wonders. He 

 made all his children, little as well as big, 

 boys and girls, so many collaborators in his 

 researches, and he loved to scatter their 

 names about the pages of his books. And 

 it is not the least charm of the Souvenirs that 

 we meet in them, at every step, the father 

 hand in hand with his children. Passing to 

 and fro, like a refreshing breeze that blows 

 through the scientific aridities of the subject, 

 we feel a twofold current of sympathy flow- 

 ing from the father to his children and the 

 naturalist to his insects. 



Incapable of living without either of them, 

 he found a way to devote himself to both, 

 and so closely that the bond between them 

 was truly one that held fast in life and death. 

 Aglae, Antonia, Claire, Emile, and Jules 

 were recruited in turn, and Fabre informs 

 us that their help was often of the greatest 

 value in his entomological researches. And 

 he liked to attach his children's names to 

 those of his insects and his discoveries. 

 Jules above all was distinguished by these en- 

 tomological honours, which a father's grati- 

 tude piously laid, with regretful tears, upon 

 his untimely grave. 



Not content with dedicating to him the 

 first volume of his Souvenirs, Fabre again 



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