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easily in one year specimens worth eighty pounds 
sterling. 
To obtain this result, it will be necessary only to 
employ the Sundays and others holidays in explora- 
tions in the neighbourood of the place of residence, and 
collect Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, Shells, Seeds, etc., etc. 
These scientific excursions will not only be very 
instructive and amusing; but, at the same time, very 
favourable to health and interests. 
I have never enjoyed better health than during the 
fifteen years I was living in America as a traveller- 
naturalist. 
I will proceed to show that, in one year, it will be 
easy to collect 250 specimens of Reptiles and Fishes, 
4,000 Insects, and 600 Shells. 
Supposing that not more than fifty days can be 
employed in making collections ; this will require as 
fruit of each day's labour 5 Reptiles, 80 Insects, 
and \% Shells. 
The success of a collector must be very bad, or the 
country very poor, if a larger number than the above be 
