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You know I have received much kindness from the Rajah, so I could do no less than warn him of impending danger, and then the fact that you were with him made me doubly anxious to reach you in time." While the hermit was saying this, the naturalist removed his blue glasses, and slowly wiped them with a corner of his coat-tails.
I cannot but express my regret, that from pecuniary considerations as well as the small size of the vessel, and the limited quantity of provision she carries, I am unable to take a naturalist and draughtsman; but I should always hail with pleasure any scientific person who joined me abroad, or who happened to be in the countries at the time; and I may venture to promise him every encouragement and facility in the prosecution of his pursuits.
And whatever may be his theoretical views, no naturalist will probably be disposed to demur to the following summary of that exposition: Living beings, whether animals or plants, are divisible into multitudes of distinctly definable kinds, which are morphological species.
The old naturalist was less pleased at this change than most men would have been in his position. He had got into a groove and did not care to get out of it. He had no relatives or any one dependent on him, and he had been well content to go on in a jog trot way, just paying his expenses of shop and living. The extra bustle and push worried rather than pleased him.
Daines Barrington, the naturalist of the last century, to whom White of Selborne addressed so many of his letters, gives a table of the comparative merit of seventeen leading song-birds of Europe, marking them under the heads of mellowness, sprightliness, plaintiveness, compass, and execution.
Between the doctrines of this volume and those of the other great naturalist whose name adorns the title-page of this journal, the widest divergence appears.
Now it nearly died out, and then it grew louder again and seemed to double into a duet, just as if the great stag beetle had whisked in at the casement and had joined in the nocturnal valse, the duet seeming to be intended to lull the naturalist and his nephew to sleep in the soft musky sweetness of that delightful summer's night.
"Ah, you may all laugh," said the doctor; "but I'm not ashamed of being a modest naturalist." "Modest!" said Major Sandars. "Do you call that modest, to talk big like that? But come, tell us, may we go safely?" "That's what I can't quite settle," said the doctor. "I don't know what to say to you. A week's hunting picnic would be very nice." "Splendid," said everybody.
For although the Spanish naturalist, Azara, had there preceded him, the researches of the latter were of the olden time, and crude imperfect kind, before either zoology or botany had developed themselves into a science.
He is not tolerant; he thinks it a virtue to be intolerant; it is hard for him to understand that the same thing may be admirable at one time and deplorable at another; and that it is really his business to classify and analyze the fruits of the human mind very much as the naturalist classifies the objects of his study, rather than to praise or blame them; that there is a measure of the same absurdity in his trampling on a poem, a novel, or an essay that does not please him as in the botanist's grinding a plant underfoot because he does not find it pretty.
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