“Tt certainly is a marked advantage in the study of natural history that it leads you 
on by the hand; it inveigles you, if I may say so, into learning what is good and 
what is useful. Many a one might have his mind first opened to the attractions of 
natural history, which mind, if once opened, might perhaps be capable of applying 
itself beneficially to harder and more repulsive studies. These analogies of nattfral 
history are invaluable; they have a most gracious effect in developing the finer 
faculties of the mind ; they establish a connection between the different portions of 
creation.”—Right Hon. W. E. GLapstToneg, M.P, 
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