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of detailed knowledge of forms by closet methods, but this 

 learning may and generally does leave out the essence of the 

 creatures it relates to, which is the soul that has shaped and 

 been shaped by their structure. The naturalist needs both of 

 these modes of contact with his data, but if it be but one it had 

 best be that which does not relate to anatomical features alone. 

 Thus in the case of Alfred Russel Wallace, who seems never 

 to have dissected anything, to have indeed a horror of such 

 work, he made himself a naturalist of most excellent quality, 

 indeed of rare discernment, by attending solely to the external 

 shapes and habits of living things. 



It may interest some of my readers to know something of my 

 expenditures during my undergraduate days; this story may 

 be shortly told. When I came to Cambridge I was allowed from 

 my family out of money coming from my grandfather, Richard 

 Southgate, the excessively large sum of fifteen hundred dollars a 

 year; equivalent on the basis of the existing college ideals to 

 about five thousand dollars. I managed to get rid of this money 

 each year without what would be called extravagance, yet 

 with no fit care to the budget. Some of it went for books, much 

 for subscriptions for various, not unreasonable but unnecessary, 

 associated purposes of my mates. Some of it in loans to my 

 mates which were never repaid, mainly because the coming on 

 of the war broke up their plans. I don't recall having wasted 

 any part of my substance, but I had the notion that it did not 

 befit a gentleman to be very careful of his pocket. When the 

 war came on I had to take in sail, for the sources of means of my 

 family were reduced and in danger of being cut off altogether. 

 Though I had a few thousand dollars in banks in Boston and 

 Cambridge, it seemed fit to keep this fund as a protection for 

 those who would be helpless in case Kentucky should be swept 

 into the ruin the South in my opinion had to face. In the last 

 year of my residence I spent less than one hundred and fifty 

 dollars, earned my room-rent and tuition by work in the Mu- 

 seum, and wore my old clothes. The club table in Zoological 



