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was artistic and full of joyousness. Forbes's love 

 of fan was strikingly seen in the first number of his 

 work on starfishes, with the portrait of a pretty girl 

 as a vignette. In writing Goodsir on the subject of 

 introducing other Manx beauties, Forbes remarked — 

 " That's rather a novelty, isn't it, Goodsir V and 

 assuredly to no man could the novelty have appeared 

 greater than to the non-gallant anatomist. The Manx 

 naturalist, whose line was more artistic than scientific, 

 claimed the right to embellish the dry facts and 

 drier technicalities of his zoological essays with his 

 pencil ; and the faces of pretty women were better 

 than starfishes in more ways than the aesthetic. 



