Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 537
sextended from the mouth to the bottom of theflower and is rapidly contracted and extended. It would require many pages of St. Nicho-las to explain all the amusing wrangling oflearned microscopists, notwithstanding all theirappliances, for many years over the exact struc-ture and action of these… … HAWK-MOTH. (Showing proboscisuncoiling.) things, seen clearlyonly in the microscope, are ofthe utmost interest. It requiressharp eyes and careful search-ing with the aid of lenses tofind some of natures mostwonderful objects, just as it tool.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. lo37 EXTENDING…
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