[32] Chalicodoma, meaning a house of pebbles, concrete or mortar, would be a most satisfactory title, were it not that it has an odd sound to any one unfamiliar with Greek. The name is given to bees who build their cells with materials similar to those which we employ for our own dwellings. The work of these insects is masonry; only it is turned out by a rustic mason more used to hard clay than to hewn stone. Réaumur, who knew nothing of scientific classification—a fact which makes many of his papers very difficult to understand—named the worker after her work and called our builders in dried clay Mason Bees, which describes them exactly. [33] Souvenirs, I., pp. 278–280. The Mason Bees, chap, i., “The Mason Bee.” [34] Horace, Ars Poetica, 412. [35] Souvenirs, IX., pp. 164–170. The Life of the Fly, chap. xii., “Mathematical Memories: The Binomial Theorem.” [36] Souvenirs, IX., pp. 172–183 passim. The Life of the Fly, chap. xii., “Mathematical Memories: The Binomial Theorem.” [37] Souvenirs, IX., p. 184 passim. The Life of the Fly, chap. xii., “Mathematical Memories: The Binomial Theorem.” [38] The weekly half-holiday in the French schools.—A. T. de M. [39] The Hunting Wasps, chap. xi., “An Ascent of Mont Ventoux.” [40] Souvenirs, III., pp. 191–193. The Life of the Fly, chap. iv., “Larval Dimorphism.” [41] M. Fabié was never officially a schoolmaster, but he was trained as one, and was a pupil at the Normal College at Rodez. [42] M. Perbosc is a schoolmaster at Lavilledien (Tarnet-Garonne). He has published through Privat of Toulouse: Lo Got occitan, Cansous del Got occitan, Contes populars Gascons, Guilhem de Tolosa, Remembransa, l’Arada, etc., and has repeatedly been crowned by the Académie des Jeux Floraux of Toulouse. [43] M. Besson is also a laureate of the Académie des Jeux Floraux, and is at present Canon of Rodez. He has published through Carrère of Rodez: Dal Brès à la Tounbo, Bagateletos, Besucarietos, Countes de la Tata Mannou, Countes de l’Ouncle Janet, etc. This last volume is dedicated: A mon Amic Antouni Perbosc. [44] Esprit Requien (1788–1851), a French naturalist and collector, director of the museum and botanical gardens at Avignon and author of several works on botany and conchology.—A. T. de M. [45] Horace Bénédict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804–63), a distinguished naturalist, for twenty years director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. He was commissioned by the French Government in 1850 to compile a flora of Corsica, and is the author of several important works on botany and zoology.—A. T. de M. [46] A mountain 7730 feet high, about twenty-five miles from Ajaccio.—A. T. de M. [47] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 63–66. The Life of the Fly, chap. vi., “My Schooling.” [48] Souvenirs, I., pp. 178–180. The Life of the Spider, chap. ii., “The Black-bellied Tarantula.” [49] Souvenirs, I., pp. 221, 240–241. The Hunting Wasps, chap. xiv., “The Bembex.” [50] Souvenirs, IV., 3–5.