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capture, it is astonishing how little we are acquainted with this 
extensive family, and I venture to predict that a few trips with the 
Yarmouth shrimpers, and a close investigation of the strange forms 
which their nets bring up, would not only astonish the tyro, hut 
also do much to awaken in him a desire more closely to study 
a subject so full of interest. Who can say but that some day we 
may have a Marine Biological Station at Yarmouth, which may 
have a longer life and more useful career than the noted Yarmouth 
Aquarium. 
I have said a good deal about collectors and collections, and 
I may at once state that I am not the one, nor have I the 
other, fortunately for me I am so circumstanced that, with the 
assistance of the Norwich Museum, and the great kindness of my 
many friends, I can always find abundant material for study and 
comparison, hut a student can hardly pursue his subject without 
being to some extent a collector, all I wish to impress upon my 
hearers is that collecting should only be a means to an end, 
and always be kept subservient. Only a few weeks ago a friend 
told me that a neighbour of his in the country sent a message 
to him to the effect that he knew he was “fond of birds,” would he 
come and shoot some Stone Curlews that had, after an absence of 
many years, returned to his farm. My friend, who has killed big 
game and little from the Equator to nearly the Pole, fortunately 
is “fond of birds ” and the news that this fine species had returned 
to one of its old haunts, long deserted, delighted him as much 
as their destruction would have caused him regret, and I trust that 
we may all have the strength of mind to follow his example, and 
never to molest bird or beast without a good and sufficient reason. 
Let me, in conclusion, congratulate you upon the formation of 
a section of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society in 
Yarmouth, and express a hope that it may prove a means of inter- 
communication and mutual assistance between those desirous of 
becoming students of nature, a pursuit from which 1 can promise 
them a considerable accession of interest in all that surrounds them 
in health, and material for reflection in many an hour of enforced 
idleness should sickness overtake them. 
