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(1) THE entomologist's walk in life is in niany respects an enviable one, for it is his particular business to study creatures which often exhibit great beauty, amazing variety, and a strange subtlety of behaviour. The current of research as regards molluscs or mammals, let us say, has a strong, quiet flow, but that in entomology recalls a mountain stream with novelties and surprises at every turn. We feel this more than ever as we read Mr. Step's fascinating “Marvels of Insect Life.” With the aid of beautiful photographs, many of them from his own camera, he gives us a lively sense of the wonderful intricacy of insect-behaviour, which often seems like a caricature of that of higher animals. But no one knows what its most accurate psychological interpretation may be.
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Aids to Nature-Study 3 . Nature 95, 207–209 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095207a0
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