of
a planet; it is everywhere, as perfect in the world of atoms as in the
world of immensities.

And this universal geometry tells us of an Universal Geometrician, whose
divine compass has measured all things. I prefer that, as an explanation
of the logarithmic curve of the Ammonite and the Epeira, to the Worm
screwing up the tip of its tail. It may not perhaps be in accordance
with latter-day teaching, but it takes a loftier flight.

FOOTNOTES

{1} A small or moderate-sized spider found among foliage.--Translator's
Note.

{2} Leon Dufour (1780-1865) was an army surgeon who served with
distinction in several campaigns and subsequently practised as a doctor
in the Landes. He attained great eminence as a naturalist.--Translator's
Note.

{3} The Tarantula is a Lycosa, or Wolf-spider. Fabre's Tarantula, the
Black-bellied Tarantula, is identical with the Narbonne Lycosa, under
which name the description is continued in Chapters iii. to vi., all of
which were written at a considerably later date than the present
chapter.--Translator's Note.

{4} Giorgio Baglivi (1669-1707), professor of anatomy and medicine at
Rome.--Translator's Note.

{5} 'When our husbandmen wish to catch them, they approach their hiding-
places, and play on a thin grass pipe, making a sound not unlike the
humming of bees. Hearing which, the Tarantula rushes out fiercely that
she may catch the flies or other insects of this kind, whose buzzing she
thinks it to be; but she herself is caught by her rustic trapper.'

{6} Provencal for the bit of waste ground on which the author studies
his insects in the natural state.--Translator's note.

{7} 'Thanks to the Bumble-bee.'

{8} Like the Dung-beetles.--Translator's Note.

{9} Like the Solitary Wasps.--Translator's Note.

{10} Such as the Hairy Ammophila, the Cerceris and the Languedocian
Sphex, Digger-wasps described in other of the author's
essays.--Translator's Note.

{11} The _desnucador_, the Argentine slaughterman whose methods of
slaying cattle are detailed in the author's essay entitled, The Theory of
Instinct.--Translator's Note.

{12} A family of Grasshoppers.--Translator's Note.

{13} A genus of Beetles.--Translator's Note.

{14} A species of Digger-wasp.--Translator's Note.

{15} The Cicada is the _Cigale_, an insect akin to the Grasshopper and
found more particularly in the South of France.--Translator's Note.

{16} The generic title of the work fr