‘“*T deal with certain little Invertebrata; animals 
which work in darkness and in stealth, little anima!s 
which in times of Peace we politely ignore, yet 
little animals which in times of War may make or 
unmake an army corps. As that wise old Greek, 
Aristotle, wrote—and he knew quite a lot about 
them—‘One should not be childishly contemp- 
tuous of the study of the most insignificant animal. 
For there is something marvellous in all natural 
2) 
A. £. Shipley, “Minor Horrors of War.” 
objects.’ ’ 
