Show aa t 7 f. f 11 1 T r. r W wl 7 t BEETLES BEETLE'S EYE A CAMERA j Insects Insect's Corn Cornea a Has linen Ileen Employed IOU ass assa a t ta a Photographic Lens From the Cincinnati Enquirer Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of ot years before the Inventive genius of men discovered the multifold mysteries of at photography anti and worked out the problem of ot the lens the little beetle was carrying round with him a snap camera of at the most unique and interesting character This camera was provided with at least photographic lenses each perfect and in natures nature's finest finest finest fin fin- est working fettle All know that the beetle has the curious projecting eye very similar to the sort one sometimes a sees in man himself The eye Is large I and round or almost so It can hardly be called a perfect sphere for It 1 is 3 slightly convex in shape Such insects have eyes called compound formed nit of one lens but of ot several hundreds jet act side by side like litre cells in a honeycomb honey honey- comb Dr Allen of England th the famous famous famous fa fa- scientist as well as-well Well as the cornea of or the eye of a beetle eUe and employed It In place of the usual photographic photographic photographic photo photo- graphic lens of the camera used for form m making king photographs of OS- OS A silhouette of a head was pasted on a piece of round glass glas and a lamp placed behind It A A. photographic dry dIJ plate was exposed to the light coming through the beetles beetle's eye from the sil silhouette silhouette sil sil- and developed develop d In the usual manner The resulting ph was wis circular and contained several hundred Images of ot the profile profile one one Indeed for each elch facet of the eye It seems reasonably reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably clear that Insects form their Judgments judgments Judg judg- I ments meats of at distance from such multiple images depending upon the power 0 of each facet to refract light rays The nearer the object the greater would be bethe bethe bethe the area covered by the Images on the retina |