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Show FAMOUS MAN IS FORGOTTEN New York, July 25. According to dispatches published here today, Henri Hen-ri Fabre, a noted French poet aud scientist whom Ylctor Hugo described as "the Insect's Homer," Is dying of hunger in Provqnce, neglected and well-night forgotten by his beloved France, Fabre is S8 years old. lie has been nearly sightless for some time, it is sold. Darwin called Fabre "one of the greatest of the world's chosen men." The Frenchman devoted his life to the study of insects and their habits, but he was not a scientist alone, for he had the soul of a poet. Ho spent weeks, months, even years, iu minutely obsorviug the habits hab-its of insects. The results of these observations, he combined not in mere text books, but in prose of majestic simplicity, which roads like a K)em of nature. It has been observed that "It was Fabre who rendered possible such works as Maeternick's "Life of the Bee" and Rostrand's "Chanticleer." "Chanti-cleer." Where others dissected, he observed and learned the secrets of the Insects." |