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species is too gi*eat ; it is morally dangerous ; for 

 it brings witli it the temptation to look on the 

 thing found as your own possession, all but your 

 own creation ; to pride yourself on it, as if God 

 had not known it for ages since ; even to 

 squabble jealously for the right of having it 

 named after you, and of being recorded in the 

 Transactions of I-know-not-what Society as its 

 first discoverer : — as if all the angels in heaven 

 had not been admiring it long before you were 

 born or thought of 



But to be forewarned is to be forearmed ; and 

 I seriously counsel you to try if you cannot find 

 something new this summer along the coast to 

 which you are going. There is no reason why 

 you should not be as successful as a friend of 

 mine, who, with a veiy slight smattering of sci- 

 ence, and very desultory research, obtained last 

 winter from the Torbay shores three entirely new 

 species, beside several rare animals which had 

 escaped all naturalists since the lynx-eye of 

 Colonel Montagu discerned them forty years ago. 



And do not despise the creatures because they 

 are minute. No doubt we should both of us 

 prefer helping Rajah Brooke to discover mon- 

 strous apes in the tropical forests of Borneo, or 



