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such men as Lord Enniskillen, adding, in like 

 manner, to the general stock of knowledge. On 

 the present occasion he is nnusnally elated, for he 

 has made the discovery of a Holothnria with twenty 

 tentacula, a species of the Echinodermata which 

 Professor Forbes, in his book on Star-Fishes, has 

 said was never yet observed in the British seas. 

 It may be of small moment to yon, who, mayhap, 

 know nothing of Holothnrias : but it is a consi- 

 derable thing to the Fauna of Britain, and a vast 

 matter to a poor private of the Cornwall mounted 

 guard. And accordingly he will go home in a few 

 days, full of the glory of his exhibition, and strung 

 anew by the kind notice taken of him by the 

 masters of the science to similar inquiries, difficult 

 as it may be to prosecute them, under such a compli- 

 cation of duties, professional and domestic. Honest 

 Peach ! humble as is thy home, and simple thy 

 bearing, thou art an honour even to this assemblage 

 of nobles and doctors : nay, more, when we con- 

 sider ever}i:hing, thou art an honour to human 

 nature itself ; for where is the heroism like that of 



