My future was set. Ellis and I agreed we were going to be entomologists when we grew up. We delved into college-level textbooks, which we could scarcely read, although we tried very hard. One that we checked out from a public library and worked on page by page was Robert E. Snodgrass’s formidable Principles of Insect Morphology, published in 1935. Only later did I learn that grown-up biologists were using it as a technical reference book.
