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he entertained a rooted and measureless contempt. 

 " Certain dreadfully scientific persons," he says in one 

 of his articles, " who call themselves by the name of 

 'naturalists,' seem to consider zoology and compara- 

 tive anatomy as convertible terms. When they see a 

 creature new to them they are seized with a burning 

 desire to cut it up, to analyse it, to get it under 

 the microscope, to publish a learned work about it, 

 which no one can read without an expensive Grreek 

 lexicon, and to ' put up ' its remains in cells and 

 bottles. They delight in an abnormal hoemopophysis ; 

 they pin their faith on a pterygoid process ; they 

 stake their reputation on the number of tubercles in a 

 second molar tooth ; and they quarrel with each other 

 about a notch on the basisphenoid bone." 



His own idea of a naturalist may be seen by 

 what follows : " Then there are the ' field naturalists/ 

 who delight in penetrating to the homes and haunts 

 of the creatures which they love, and spend whole days 

 and nights in watching their habits. Sometimes a 

 field naturalist remains at home, and immortalises an 

 obscure village by the simple process of using his 

 eyes and telling his friends what he has seen. Another 

 wanders far abroad in quest of new wonders, and if 

 he faithfully narrates the marvels he has witnessed, 

 may calculate on being put down by newspaper critics 

 as a skilful archer with the long-bow." 



Not that in any way he failed to recognise the 

 importance of classification, and so of classificators. 

 Such men are a necessity ; for " order is heaven's first 



