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longest life would not be sufficient to make the acquaintance of all 
the individuals ; yet the more work we each of us do in our several 
vocations, botanical or zoological, the more delight we gain for our- 
selves, and the more instruction we hand down to the students of the 
future, who taking up each separate group, may finally complete the 
roll of all that lives and moves and has its being. 
I must crave your forgiveness for my shortcomings during the 
occupancy of this chair, which I have now the pleasure to transfer 
to my friend Mr. Michael, a very mitey man indeed, from whom I 
doubt not we shall receive much pleasure and instruction in the 
subject he has so specially made his own. 
