Excerpt from Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2012, Vol. 47: Part 1Plate VII of Insects at Home, was described as a fine insect, while the common earwig, on the right near the top, was shown with its beautiful wings extended. In this illustration Wood also includes a field cockroach and its egg case (bottom right), a field cricket (just below the center of the illustration) and a mole cricket (center bottom, below the field cricket). In some cases Wood was forced to turn to the microscope for help in finding the element of beauty he wanted his readers to see in all insects As dull and colorless as the Gnat may appear to the unaided eye, Wood announced, it has only to be placed under the revealing glass of the microscope to blaze out in a magnificence which would pale all the fabled glories of Aladdin's fairy palace (j. Wood 1872, 226, 230.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.