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Having taken up my parable, I will further suggest 

 that save in exceptional cases new names assigned should 

 preferably be descriptive (or "onomatopoetic") rather than 

 personal tributes to some transient human being who even at 

 the passing moment is unknown beyond his own exiguous 

 circle, and whose existence within a decade will be lost in. 

 oblivion. Those who have done good work will not be for- 

 gotten ; nor will others be rescued from obscurity by having 

 their fugitive patronymics tacked-on to Nature's forms that 

 endure through the ages. 



" IN THE NECK " (CROCODILE). (See p. 57.) 

 Mr J. G. Millais, to whom I am indebted for the above 

 drawing, writes me that it suggests to him a " Residuary 

 Legatee listening to the reading of the Will." 



