YOUNG GRANT S GAZHLll. 



i.\ A BLACK-BURNED STKhl^H wi- \ i. I. 1 . 



IV 



The Survivors 



TO learn to know anything with precision, to devote 

 oneself to it and master it in its smallest details, one 

 must generally make its study a labour of love. So the spread 

 of more exact knowledge of the manifestations of nature 

 around us must go hand in hand with the awakening of 

 love for them and for the splendours they present to our 

 view. And with this increasing impulse towards research 

 and knowledge must come the desire to prevent as far as 

 possible the rapid destruction of fauna and flora. Public 

 opinion, in truth, has begun to range itself on the side 

 of these much menaced glories of nature. 



We have to observe and investigate. We have to get 

 together some small portion of the vast material that is 

 often so uselessly squandered, in order to employ it in the 

 service of special branches of science, and to make some 

 closer knowledge of these things accessible to every one. 



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