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The Floral King. 139
cession when ever it please. This is a phenomenon,
which no mortal has ever seen or heard of, so that
if it were from India, it would stagger us, and
yet, though it is common in our forests, no
European knows of it.
‘* The other insect has on its forelegs two bowls,
which are folded together under its chin, like a hemi-
sphere, I have often seen it, but have never under-
stoodit. In these bowls it gathers like bees, pulverem
antherarum, but the bowls are perforated with
innumerable holes, so tiny that they can hardly be
seen by the naked eye, the insect sifts the flower
through these and takes thus the broken pollen,
leaving that which still serves the plants for the
fructification ; incomparably curious.
‘Since we have first obtaind imventa about these
two insects, it remains for-all the curious to make a
hundred trials in this respect, and new discoveries,
but it is yet his gloria who first detected it.
‘‘ When this comes to the Academy of Science, I
should advise that an inventor be distinguished from
compilers, for where we have one inventor, we have
1,000 compilers.”
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