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CPIAPTER V 



CADDIS-WORMS (TRICHOPTERA) 



A CONSIDERABLE part of this chapter is translated 

 from one of the most interesting and characteristic of 

 Reaumur's memoirs. The original is to be found in 

 the third volume of his History of Insects} 



This is one of many excellent memoirs by- 

 Reaumur which we have occasion to cite. A short 

 account of the naturalist who did so much for the 

 study of Insects seems due to his memory. 



Reaumur was born at Rochelle in 1683. He was 

 enjoined to study law, the profession of his father, 

 but science led him away, and as his means rendered I 

 him independent of a lucrative profession, he became 

 a student of Mathematics and Physics. His first 

 publications treated of Geometry, and were so highly 

 valued that when only twenty-four years of age, he 

 was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. 

 In 1 7 10 he undertook the direction of a vast and 

 important work, the first great treatise on technical 

 education. This was the Description des Arts et 



1 The passages extracted from Reaumur are put in inverted 

 commas. 



