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exclaims: ‘‘ Nowadays it is very rare to read of the 
pleasures of a naturalist. Zoology and botany have become 
too serious a business to leave much margin for pleasure.” 
But if we understand by naturalist a keen observer of 
Nature, a passionate lover of her ways and works, a man 
with a capacity for interesting othersin her study and in- 
ducing them to do their best work and give the world the 
benefit of their knowledge, Frank Buckland has no living 
representative, and unless we except Gilbert White, of 
Selborne, we look in vain for his equal in his own line. 
His name will stand out for the work he did with his free, 
open, generous nature when many of the pitiful scramblers 
to be the first to announce to an astonished world some 
trifling discovery which they have made are forgotten. He 
was utterly incapable of launching forth as facts ill- 
considered guesses at the operations of Nature. Imagine 
what he would have said to the idea of closing a whole 
county’s seaboard to scientific investigation. 
I think no one who knows anything of the subject, can 
compare for a moment the two enquiries, in regard either 
to the scope of the enquiry, the value of the evidence, the 
analysis of the evidence, or the final judgment. Every 
scrap of real evidence since obtained, and the utter failure 
to obtain any good result by adopting a course in opposition 
to the finding of this court, has proved the correctness of 
their judgment. Their decision is rendered more. impressive 
