From the July 4, 1931 issue
By Science News
MAGNIFYING EYE WOULD SEE STRANGE THINGS
If we could only convert our eyes into magnifying glasses at will, we would see a lot of astonishing things that escape us now because they are too small. The little walking gargoyle shown on the cover of Science News Letter, for example.
It is a juvenile stage of a very common insect, which we ordinarily pass by as just another bug. But here he is, magnified only 16 times by Cornelia Clarkes camera, and he assumes an appearance more bizarre than the imagination of a Persian artist, more impossible than the figures in a medieval bestiary.