THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE = 
a sparrow falls to the ground unnoticed by our 
Father who is in heaven. 
The truth is, the pleasure of finding new species 
is too great; it is morally dangerous; for it brings 
with it the temptation to look on the thing found as 
your own possession, all but your own creation ; to 
_ pride yourself on it, as if God had not known it for 
ages since; even to squabble jealously for the right 
of having it named after you, and of being recorded 
in the Transactions of I-know-not-what Society as 
its first discoverer :—as if all the angels in heaven 
had not been admiring it, long before you were + 
born or thought of. 
But to be forewarned is to be forearmed; and 
I seriously counsel you to try if you cannot find 
something new this summer along the coast to 
which you are going. There is no reason why you 
should not be so successful as a friend of mine who, 
with a very slight smattering of science, and very 
desultory research, obtained in one winter from the 
Torbay shores three entirely new species, beside 
several rare animals which had escaped all natu- 
