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NATURE NOTES. 
doue. It was well said by Thomas de Quincey that life had had 
many additional pleasures given to it since Shakspeare lived and 
wrote, and all lovers of natural history, all admirers of the weird 
'lO THE MEMORY OF 
RICHARD JEFFERIES, 
BORN AT COATE IN I'HE PARISH OF CHISELDEN AND COUNTY 
OF WILTS, 6tH NOVEMBER iS-jS, 
DIED AT GORING IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, 
I4TH AUGUST 18S7, 
WHO OBSERVING THE WORKS OF ALMIGHTY GOD, 
WITH A poet’s EYE 
HAS 
ENRICHED THE LITERATURE OF HIS COUNTRY, 
AND 
WON E'OR HIMSELF A PLACE AMONGST 
THOSE 
WHO HAVE MADE MEN HAPPIER 
AND WISER. 
beauty of the Wiltshire Downs, the nooks and corners of old 
England, the varied associations which birds and trees and 
flowers convey to rich and poor, to learned and unlearned, must 
