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naturalist forgetting or losing liis interest in his 

 studies ? Those who have contented themselves with 

 learning a catalogue of hard names, supposing this 

 to be Natural History because it often passes for it, 

 must expect to lose this, with most other knowledge 

 held by memory alone. Men may name whole 

 cabinets, and have no more claim to be called nat- 

 uralists, than a man who has simply learned a hun- 

 dred words from a Greek Lexicon to be called a 

 linguist. Such knowledge costs more than it is 

 worth to keep it. The best thing that can be said 

 of it is, that it seldom troubles its possessor long. 

 But he who has once seen the true plan and relation- 

 ship of natural objects is a Naturalist, though walk- 

 ing among animals and plants that have never yet 

 received a name; and the knowledge of that plan 

 and relationship can never be forgotten, but will be 

 increased by every new object which meets his eye. 

 "When the mind would mark the nice distinctions 

 drawn by Nature, she must call to her aid every 

 sense. She must read the cells in the bone and the 

 glimmering lines of the scale the veining of the 

 leaf and the angle of the crystal. By being thus 



