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boy or man, girl or woman, is quite capable of doino^ good 

 work for science in such lines. It is work, also, that is plea- 

 sant, and unmixed with 



" sorrow of the meanest thing that lives." 



Therein it differs from this collecting and putting into 

 bottles. Collecting and bottling may be necessary, but the 

 really fruitful study of animals is something other, and some- 

 thing pleasanter — one may say, something more decent — 

 than this. 



