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personage might have failed." He collects the butterflies, 

 and after killing them, folds them up in triangular papers, 

 with their fragile and delicate wings folded over the back. 

 When softened and spread they come out in all their exquisite 

 beauty. Naturalists are noted for their enthusiasm, but such 

 perseverance and enthusiastic devotion to the study of nature 

 and her works, in the face of difficulties that would appall 

 most people, is seldom heard of. Doherty has pushed on, 

 under a tropical sun, sometimes in a pestilential climate, 

 stricken down with the deadly fevers and cholera, that are 

 always lurking in those places, some times blinded and covered 

 with sores from bad food and exposure, often with insufficient 

 supplies and almost at the point of starvation, living with 

 .savage natives, menaced with the fearful animal pests of these 

 countries, traveling long distances on foot through thorny 

 jungles, j-et never deviating from his object, nor tiring in his 

 search, for nearly fourteen of the best years of his life. His 

 is a case unequaled in the history of the many brave and 

 dauntless spirits, who, in the face of almost insurmountable 

 difficulties and hard.ships, have wrested from nature .some of 

 her choicest treasures. 



