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IN the lives of the older naturalists, as of Louis Agassiz when he was young or John Hunter when he grew old, we find examples of quite peculiar happiness. All their labour was for the love of it; they did exactly as they pleased; they shared a carefree corner of the world with the painter and the poet. Dr. Thomas Barbour is one of the last of the old-fashioned naturalists, and it is the same way with him. He confesses, or boasts perhaps, that “he never does anything he don't want to do—not if he can help it”; and in consequence a glow of happiness runs all through his random reminiscences.
A Naturalist at Large
By Thomas Barbour. Pp. xii + 314. (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 1943.) n.p.
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THOMPSON, D. A Naturalist at Large. Nature 154, 411 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154411a0
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