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Having taken up my parable, I will further suggest 
that—save in exceptional cases—-new • names assigned should 
preferably be descriptive (or “ onomatopoetic ”) rather than 
personal tributes to some transient human being who even at 
the passing moment is unknown beyond his own exiguous 
circle, and whose existence within a decade will be lost in 
oblivion. Those who have done good work will not be for¬ 
gotten ; nor will others be rescued from obscurity by having 
their fugitive patronymics tacked-on to Nature’s forms that 
endure through the ages. tft* 
“ In the Neck ” (Crocodile). (See p. 57.) 
Mr J. G. Millais, to whom I am indebted for the above 
drawing, writes me that it suggests to him a “ Residuary 
Legatee listening to the reading of the Will.” 
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