54 THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS LESSONS. 



one is just as wonderfully constructed as the other. Do 



Battledore scale from wing of Poly- 

 Scale from wing of Morpho Menelaus ommatus Argus (butterfly). 

 (butterfly). 



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Various forms of the scales of butterflies. 



you know that there arc about four hundred thousand of 



