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elation with a few novelties of this kind, accom- 

 panied by illustrative papers and drawings : thus, 

 under circumstances the very opposite of those 

 of such men as Lord Enniskillen, adding, in 

 like manner, to the general stock of knowledge. 

 On the present occasion he is unusually elated, 

 for he has made the discovery of a llolothuria 

 with twenty tentacula, a species of the echino- 

 dcrniata which Professor Forbes, in his book on 

 Star-Fishes, has said was never yet oteerved in 

 the British seas. It may be of small moment to 

 you, who, mayhap, know nothing of Ilolothurias : 

 but it is a considerable thing to the Fauna of 

 Britain, and a vast matter to a poor private of 

 the Cornwall mounted guard. And accordingly 

 he will go home in a few days, full of the glory 

 of his exhibition, and strung anew by the kind 

 notice taken of him by tlic masters of the science 

 to similar inquiries, dillicult as it may be to 

 prosecute them under such a complication of 

 duties, professional and domestic. But lie li;is 

 still another subject of congratulation, for Dr. 

 Carpenter lias kindly given biin a microscope, 

 wlicrcwith to observe the structure of his 

 favorite animals, an instrument for which he 

 has sighed for many years in vain. Honest 

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