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THE President of the Linnean Society sets a good example. Not many men, we suppose, have more onerous or more multifarious duties than he. He earns his leisure, little though it be, and he makes excellent use of it. Flowers, fruits, and leaves, to say nothing of insects and archaological investigations, supply him with the recreation he needs, provoke his observation, and stimulate his intelligence. More than that, they make him a propagandist. He is anxious to share with others the pleasure and relief he obtains from the study of Nature. To this end he descends from the Presidential chair to converse familiarly on the objects of his study, not only with those who are already in sympathy with him, but with those benighted Philistines whom perchance he may yet hope to gather into the fold. The substance of the book before us formed the basis of certain lectures addressed to popular audiences, and is well suited, with the accompanying illustrations, to arouse the attention of the indifferent and of that very large class of persons who go through the world with their eyes shut.
Flowers, Fruils, and Leaves.
By Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., &c. “Nature Series.” (London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.)
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MASTERS, M. Flowers, Fruits, and Leaves . Nature 33, 601 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033601a0
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