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the scientific world. Some, like Sinclair and Richard Cunningham, 

 have given their lives to the cause. All have spent much time and 

 labour. It surely seems that these men are as worthy of the regard 

 and admiration of their fellows as those who, in more public positions 

 and with much blare of trumpets, serve the nation. But the naturalist 

 gets a reward other than the plaudits of the crowd. The constant 

 communing with nature is a source of ennobling pleasure, while the 

 discovery of a new fact is in itself an ample recompense for all the 

 toil of research. 



