Word: melolontha
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...First, of course, here as everywhere else, we have this delightful spring weather, these beautiful days with the mercury reaching after ninety, and your spring suit still at the tailor's. Then these charming evenings, occupied in grinding for the annuals, when the science of entomology thrives, and the Melolontha vulgaris holds a desperate flirtation with the Musca domestica on the leaves of the Latin dictionary. In the daytime how we enjoy our recitations! I fancy that in the way of lecture-rooms we have something which cannot be found elsewhere. I will wager that the air in the rooms...
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