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Zoological Gardens ; and as it may be ^^cen 

 also by an}^ one who will follow carefully the 

 directions given at the end of his book, stock 

 a glass vase with such common things as he 

 may find in an hour's search at low tide, 

 and so have an opportunity of seeing how 

 truly Mr. Gosse says, in his valuable preface, 

 that — 



" The habits " (and he might well have added, 

 the marvellous beauty) " of animals will never 

 be thoroughly known till they are observed in 

 detail. Nor is it sufficient to mark them with 

 attention now and then ; they must be closely 

 watched, their various actions carefully noted, 

 their behavior under different circumstances, 

 and especially those movements which seem to 

 us mere vagaries, undirected by any suggestible 

 motive or cause, well examined. A rich fruit 

 of result, often new and curious and unexpected, 

 will, I am sure, reward any one who studies 

 living animals in this way. The most interest- 

 ing parts, by far, of published Natural History 

 are those minute, but graphic particulars, which 

 have been gathered up by an attentive watching 

 of individual animals." 



Mr. Gosse's own books, certainly, give proof 



