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balance, I am afraid wc ,sl.„uld be lound wantiu-. Golf late 

 dni.icrs, social functions, and other hundred and one excuses 

 are made. Only here and there do we find the real student 

 working- quietly a( l.is particular branch of study //. is 

 not content to show (he ordinary stereotyped slide that has 

 been exhibited thousands of times before: he wants to dive 

 deeper into tlie wonders of nature. The superficial view 

 has httle interest for him. His aims are hiaher ; always 

 probing here and sifting there to add another" link to our 

 chain of knowledge. And the reward? Money could not 

 buy It. What cared our ancestors for money? Can we 

 imagine such master-minds as Linnaeus, Swammerdam, Albin 

 or Stamton taking this into consideration for one moment? 

 ^o. They gave of their best. No need to mark their last 

 rest.ng-place with a block of granite: their work lives on 

 Wo have only to open one of their books, and the great 

 master is by our side guiding us through the woods : while 

 he points out the glittering gems as they flit from flower 

 to flower-the same insects, the same flowers, that he knew 

 Modern science may have changed their names : but Nature 

 that good old dame, still continues to produce the same 

 colours, the same forms. Her work is perfect, and perfection 

 cannot, be improved. 



