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ages since ; even to squabble jealously for the right 

 of having it named after you, and of being recorded 

 in the Transactions of I-know-not-what Society as 

 its first discoverer : — as if all the angels in heaven 

 had not been admiring it, long before you were 

 born or thought of 



But to be forewarned is to be forearmed ; and 

 I seriously counsel you to try if you cannot find 

 something new this summer along the coast to 

 which you are going. There is no reason why you 

 should not be so successful as a friend of mine who, 

 with a very slight smattering of science, and very 

 desultory research, obtained last winter from the 

 Torbay shores three entirely new species, beside 

 several rare animals which had escaped all natu- 

 ralists since the lynx-eye of Colonel Montagu dis- 

 cerned them forty years ago. 



And do not despise the creatures because they 

 are minute. No doubt we should both of us prefer 

 helping Eajah Brooke to discover monstrous apes in 

 the tropical forests of Borneo, or stumbling with 

 Hooker upon herds of gigantic Ammon sheep amid 



