" It certainly is a marked advantage in the study of natural history that it leads you 

 on by the hand; it inveigles you, if I may say so, into learning what is good and 

 what is useful. Many a one might have his mind first opened to the attractions of 

 natural history, which mind, if once opened, might perhaps be capable of applying 

 itself beneficially to harder and more repulsive studies. These analogies of natural 

 history are invaluable ; they have a most gracious effect in developing the finer 

 faculties of the mind ; they establish a connection between the different portions of 

 creation." Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. 



