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terious wireless telegraphy which has not yet 

 found its Branly. 



A few days later the miracle was repeated 

 before the wondering eyes of the naturalist 

 and his faithful acolyte, by another moth, 

 which in this case celebrated its nuptials by 

 daylight in the bright sunshine. 



Let us hasten to say that the entomological 

 zeal of this little moth-hunter did not fade 

 with the feverish activity of the very young. 

 As we see him in 1897, at the age of seven, 

 so we find him at fifteen in 1906. The im- 

 portance and value of his services had only 

 increased as his capacities increased, and as 

 the vigour and muscular activity of his be- 

 loved father diminished. He lent him his 

 limbs for excursions by day and by night. 



What will he not do to please his father? 

 As eagerly as he lends him his legs on his 

 long expeditions, he lends him his arms for 

 all the tasks that are forbidden his eighty 

 years: for example, the excavation of the 

 deep galleries of certain burrowing insects. 



The rest of the family, including the mother, 

 being no less zealous, commonly accompanies us. 

 Their eyes are none too many when the trench 

 grows deep and the tiny details uncovered by the 

 spade have to be scanned from a distance. What 

 one does not see, another does. " Huber, having 



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