[10] Souvenirs, X., p. 111. [↑]
[11] Souvenirs, VII., 360. [↑]
[12] Souvenirs, V., pp. 43–44. The Sacred Beetle and Others, chap. iv., “The Sacred Beetle: The Pear.” [↑]
[13] Souvenirs, V., pp. 27–29. The Sacred Beetle and Others, chap. i., “The Sacred Beetle.” [↑]
[14] It is exceedingly curious that neither Fabre nor the silk-growers knew what every English schoolboy knows so well—that silkworms thrive upon lettuce leaves, the ordinary substitute, in England, for the mulberry-leaf. Botany, of course, would not suggest such a substitute.—B. M. [↑]
[15] Souvenirs, III., pp. 297–299. [↑]
CHAPTER XVIII
THE COLLABORATORS: (CONTINUED)
Not all the naturalist’s experiments are dedicated to practical folk; some are reserved rather for the intellectual. Let us proceed to the facts: