The stag-beetle is captured for the purpose of examination, [73]
Effect produced upon it by the vapour of ether, [74]
Regret expressed at having terminated its existence, [75]
CHAPTER III.—WORLD-BUILDERS.
The world outside the terrestrial world, [79]
The world of the infinitely little; the architects of ocean, [80]
The immense works accomplished by the lower organisms, [81]
They build up reefs, banks, islands, [82]
The manufacture of chalk described, [83]