[1] René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757), inventor of the Réaumur thermometer and author of Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des insectes.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[2] For the Cicada or Cigale, an insect remotely akin to the Grasshopper and found more particularly in the south of France, cf. Social Life in the Insect World, by J. H. Fabre, translated by Bernard Miall: chaps. i to iv.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[3] The harmas was the enclosed piece of waste ground in which the author used to study his insects in their natural state.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[4] The eponymous hero of Voltaire’s story of “the little great man,” published in 1752 in imitation of Gulliver’s Travels.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[5] .039 inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[6] About three-quarters of an inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[7] .117 to .156 inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]