SAMOUELLF/S 



beloved Sweden. In the year 1780, an alarm \va* 

 spread, in some parts of France, that people had 

 been poisoned by eating worm-eaten peas, and they 

 were forbidden by authority to be exposed for sale in 

 the market ; but the fears of the public were soon 

 removed by tbe examination of some scientific men, 

 who found the cause of the injury to be this insect." 



