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Dr. Wallich (1786-1854) : a Danish botanist and member 

 of the Royal Society. 



Mr. Sorby : President of the Geological Society of Eng- 

 land, and author of many papers on subjects connected with 

 physical geography. 



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Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875): a British geologist, and 

 one of the first to uphold Darwin's Origin of Species. 

 Echinus: the sea-urchin; an animal which dwells in a 

 spheroidal shell built up from polygonal plates, and covered 

 with sharp spines. 



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Somme: a river of northern France which flows into the 

 English Channel northeast of Dieppe. 



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the chipped flints of Hoxne and Amiens: the rude 

 instruments which were made by primitive man were of 

 chipped flint. Numerous discoveries of large flint imple- 

 ments have been made in the north of France, near Amiens, 

 and in England. The first noted flint implements were dis- 

 covered in Hoxne, Suffolk, England, 1797. Cf. Evans' An- 

 cient Stone Implements and Lyell 's Antiquity of Alan. 



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Rev. Mr. Gunn (1800-1881) : an English naturalist. Mr. 

 Gunn sent from Tasmania a large number of plants and 

 animals now in the British Museum. 



"the whirligig of time ": cf. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 

 Act V, sc. i, 1. 395. 



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Euphrates and Hiddekel: cf. Genesis ii, 14. 



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the great river, the river of Babylon : cf . Genesis xv, 18. 



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Without haste, but without rest: from Goethe's Zahme 

 Xenien. In a letter to his sister, Huxley says: "And then 

 perhaps by the following of my favorite motto, 



" ' Wie das Gestirn, 

 Ohne Hast, 

 Ohne Rast ' 



something may be done, and some of Sister Lizzie's fond 

 imaginations turn out not altogether untrue." The quota- 

 tion entire is as follows : 



Wie das Gestirn, 

 Ohne Hast, 

 Aber ohne Rast, 

 Drehe sich jeder 

 Um die eigne Lust. 



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