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  Notes 
  of 
  an 
  East 
  Coast 
  Naturalist. 
  By 
  Arthur 
  H. 
  Patterson. 
  

   Methuen 
  & 
  Co. 
  

  

  Arthur 
  Patterson 
  is 
  the 
  Thomas 
  Edward 
  of 
  the 
  Norfolk 
  

   coast, 
  or 
  of 
  that 
  portion 
  of 
  it 
  which 
  adjoins 
  the 
  town 
  so 
  well 
  

   known 
  as 
  Great 
  Yarmouth. 
  After 
  a 
  life 
  of 
  many 
  struggles, 
  with 
  

   poverty 
  for 
  a 
  neighbour, 
  and 
  long 
  hours 
  devoted 
  to 
  other 
  pursuits 
  

   than 
  natural 
  history 
  for 
  a 
  living 
  emolument, 
  Patterson 
  " 
  comes 
  

   out 
  on 
  top 
  " 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  recognized 
  naturalists 
  in 
  a 
  county 
  

   where 
  many 
  lovers 
  of 
  nature 
  abound. 
  These 
  remarks 
  betray 
  no 
  

   confidence, 
  but 
  are 
  prompted 
  by 
  the 
  perusal 
  of 
  a 
  biographical 
  

   notice 
  that 
  accompanied 
  the 
  prospectus 
  of 
  his 
  book, 
  in 
  noticing 
  

   which 
  the 
  life 
  of 
  the 
  author 
  cannot 
  be 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  con- 
  

   tents 
  of 
  the 
  volume, 
  and 
  each 
  is 
  a 
  valuable 
  contribution 
  to 
  

   zoology. 
  For 
  it 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  importance 
  to 
  the 
  science 
  to 
  

   find 
  that 
  barriers 
  of 
  birth, 
  circumstance, 
  and 
  culture 
  can 
  be 
  

   successfully 
  overcome, 
  and 
  that 
  a 
  man 
  whose 
  love 
  of 
  living 
  

   creatures 
  has 
  been 
  exercised 
  at 
  every 
  spare 
  moment 
  in 
  a 
  

   strenuous 
  existence, 
  can 
  make 
  himself 
  heard, 
  and 
  find 
  means 
  

   of 
  giving 
  his 
  observations 
  to 
  the 
  commonwealth 
  of 
  naturalists. 
  

  

  His 
  contributions 
  to 
  zoology 
  have 
  been 
  of 
  two 
  kinds 
  : 
  in 
  

   technical 
  local 
  catalogues 
  (several 
  of 
  which 
  have 
  appeared 
  in 
  

   these 
  pages) 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  bionomical 
  observations, 
  which 
  form 
  the 
  

   contents 
  of 
  the 
  volume 
  under 
  notice. 
  In 
  the 
  first 
  pursuit 
  we 
  are 
  

   told 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  added 
  over 
  fifty 
  species 
  to 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  Great 
  

   Yarmouth 
  fishes, 
  and 
  twenty 
  to 
  the 
  fish-fauna 
  of 
  East 
  Anglia. 
  

   With 
  this 
  remark 
  we 
  may 
  conclude 
  our 
  personal 
  appreciation, 
  

   with 
  a 
  hope 
  that 
  the 
  same 
  energy 
  displayed 
  in 
  observation 
  may 
  

   be 
  supplemented 
  by 
  an 
  equally 
  sustained 
  attack 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   more 
  abstruse 
  principles 
  in 
  biology, 
  when 
  we 
  shall 
  expect 
  to 
  hear 
  

   much 
  — 
  very 
  much— 
  more 
  of 
  this 
  author. 
  

  

  Since 
  1891 
  Mr. 
  Patterson 
  has 
  discarded 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  gun, 
  

   and 
  substituted 
  the 
  employment 
  of 
  the 
  field-glass, 
  a 
  very 
  

  

  Zool. 
  4th 
  ser. 
  vol. 
  VIII., 
  October. 
  1904. 
  2h 
  

  

  