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paths of inquiry, which have yielded me so many 

 moments of unalloyed enjoyment.* 



* [M. de Quatrefages here alludes to his recent appointment to 

 the Chair of Ethnology (Histoire Naturelle de THomme) at the 

 Museum of Natural History in the Jardin des Plantes. While we 

 congratulate M. de Quatrefages on this honourable recognition of 

 his claims as a naturalist, we cannot help regretting, in common 

 with all zoologists, that any circumstances should have withdrawn 

 him from a department of natural history in which he had already 

 achieved such signal success.] 



