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field-naturalist's mind. By this person, somewhat 

 awesome to society, I do not mean one versed 

 in trinomials and other technicalities, but rather 

 one who, through the years of his life, whether 

 they be few or many, has regarded nature sympa- 

 thetically, trying to understand her working and 

 her ways ; one who sees not objects alone nor hears 

 noises only, but one to whom each of these things 

 conveys a story or a fact. 



