Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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changing waters, varying currents and eddies — the stability 
of a stream that spreads over the lowland or thru the delta 
with a dozen offspring streamlets, while the flowing stream 
still remains the stream of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 
Tho the taxonomist’s specimens seem insignificant, the data 
tedious, and the dry-rot of the technic unendurable, the 
pinned specimens in the box are a bit of the forests and the 
hills and the days where the drama of wasp life is unfolded, 
an evidence of ancient origins, mutating genes, and inexorable 
marches of evolution, an epitome of the enduring and ever- 
lastingly changing entities which are species. 
