Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . ent roughness of their surfacewhich I could not account for, as I knew that hairs did not soften and swell in water ;but what I had read explained most satisfactorily everything I had seen in connectionwith them. If that tuft of hairs had been wholly in the water, and their full length endowedwith motion as part of it was, each hair would have been moving independently of theothers, and would likely have been scattered all over the pool; then in all probabilitymy attention would not have been particularly attracted by them, fur
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . ent roughness of their surfacewhich I could not account for, as I knew that hairs did not soften and swell in water ;but what I had read explained most satisfactorily everything I had seen in connectionwith them. If that tuft of hairs had been wholly in the water, and their full length endowedwith motion as part of it was, each hair would have been moving independently of theothers, and would likely have been scattered all over the pool; then in all probabilitymy attention would not have been particularly attracted by them, further than to thinkthat Hair Snakes were unusually numerous in that pool; and so I would have missedan instructive lesson, tor what I read would not have impressed me as it did, but forwhat I had seen previously. This is an experiment that anyone favourably situated forobtaining the right conditions could easily carry out for themselves, and then they wouldhave ocular proof of what a reasonable excuse there does exist for the belief that hairsdo turn into Fig. 38. When engaged at one time in an effort to bring some chrysalids of the TomatoSphinx (Fig. 38) to maturity, and obtain the moths, I noticed that one of them was dead,so laid it aside for a time. Upon my next handling it I found the outer skin dryand shrivelled, and upon removing a portion of it, which was an exceedingly thinand brittle scale, I saw that the moth within had been fully matured up to the pointof emerging before it died, so finding that I had an excellent subject upon which tooperate for discovering the position and arrangement of the various parts of the insect,as they were disposed of in the chrysalid prior to its assuming an active life, I com-menced investigating. Carefully removing the outer covering, which came away asfreely and as clean as if it had never been in any way attached to the corpse within,but upon which had been distinctly impressed every external feature of the comingmoth, the ma
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