The Archive · 1872

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May SI] Hankow, Yokoham more in the way of collection than any of the three, but his large and valuable collections have not yet been published or tabulated. Meanwhile, it may be of interest to know that of the minor plants and animals, even in our own immediate locality, so little is known that new species and possibly new genera will reward the search of any one moderately acquainted with any special brafich of natural history. The collection of specimens or the discovery of species is not, however, the highest object of the naturalist. The correlation of plants and animals, the study of their habits, and of their present and past distribution, lead to discoveries of far SUBSCRII ved, and Single 30 Cornhill.

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