[175] Ibid., I., 171–175. The Hunting Wasps, chap. X., “The Ignorance of Instinct.” [176] Souvenirs, I., pp. 297–298. The Mason-Bees, chap. ii., “Experiments.” [177] Souvenirs, I., p. 165. The Hunting Wasps, chap. x., “The Ignorance of Instinct.” Ibid., IV., p. 238; V., p. 90. The Sacred Beetle and Others, chap. vii., “The Broad-necked Scarabæus.” [178] Souvenirs, II., p. 157. The Mason-Bees, chap. vii., “Reflections upon Insect Psychology.” Ibid., VI., pp. 116, 131, 148. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles, chap. xii., “The Burying Beetles: Experiments;” also Wonders of Instinct, chap. vi. [179] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 130, 143. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles, chap. xii., “The Burying Beetles: Experiments.” [180] Souvenirs, V., pp. 141, 142, 150. The Sacred Beetle and others, chap. xvi., “The Lunary Copris.” The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles, chap. xi., “The Burying Beetles.” [181] Souvenirs, II., p. 159. The Mason-Bees, chap. vii. “Reflections upon Insect Psychology.” Souvenirs, VI., 116. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles, chap. xi. “The Burying Beetles”; see also Wonders of Instinct, chap. vi. [182] Souvenirs, IV., p. 238. [183] Souvenirs, II., p. 138; VI., pp. 98, 117. [184] Souvenirs, I., p. 220. The Hunting Wasps, chap. xiii, “The Ammophila.” [185] Souvenirs, V., p. 130. The Sacred Beetle and Others, chap. xvi., “The Lunary Copris.” Souvenirs, VI., p. 97. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles, chap. x., “Insect Colouring.” Souvenirs, VII., p. 193. [186] Souvenirs, I., p. 220. The Hunting Wasps, chap. xiii., “The Ammophila.” Souvenirs, V., p. 322. The Life of the Grasshopper, chap. viii., “The Mantis: The Nest.” [187] E. Tavernier. [188] Souvenirs, X., pp. 92, 214. [189] Revue hebdomadaire, October 22, 1910. [190] La Nature, March 26, 1910. “It will be to M. Fabre’s lasting honour that he has never known any idleness of this kind or, indeed, any kind of idleness.” [191] Souvenirs, VI., p. 75. [192] Fabre denies “by the light of the facts” almost all the ideas which evolution invokes to explain the formation of species. (Revue des Deux Mondes, p. 891.) He says: “The facts as I see them lead me away from Darwin’s theories. Whenever I try to apply selection to the facts observed, it leaves me whirling in the void. It is majestic, but sterile: evolution asserts as regards the past; it asserts as regards the future; but it tells us as little as possible about the present. Of the three terms of duration one only escapes it, and that is the very one which is free from the fantastic imaginings of hypothesis.”