closet-collectors

Updated: May 22, 2025

And, indeed, it is in this form of Natural History: not in mere classification, and the finding out of means, and quarrellings as to the first discovery of that beetle or this buttercup, too common, alas! among mere closet-collectors, "endless genealogies," to apply St.

Charles Kingsley - Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore