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will there find all our native species described in a 

 manner at once enthusiastic and humorous, and 

 if he does not laugh at the ludicrous " tail-pieces " 

 in which the wayward fancy of the Professor 

 indulged, we do not envy him his grim nature. 

 For, if anything can soften a man's heart, and keep 

 it green, it is the study of natural history in its 

 various departments. Perhaps in no other branch 

 of human learning is it so possible to realise the 

 poet's well known line, and 



" Look through Nature, up to Nature's God !" 



