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illustrated in the taste of the time, was a " pot-boiler," if 

 ever there was one, and the author, though he had not 

 scamped his perfunctory task, declined to allow his name 

 to appear on the title-page. In the autumn the elder 

 Mr. and Mrs. Gosse were removed from Kentish Town 

 to a little house at the Oval, Hackney. On October 

 20, 1844, their son sailed from the Thames on board 

 a vessel bound for Jamaica. Just about the same time 

 two other young naturalists set out on collecting expe- 

 ditions, Hugh Low for Borneo, and David Dyson for 

 Honduras, both having made like agreements with Cuming 

 to be their sole agent. 



