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DR. ROBINSON points out in his introduction that the amateur naturalist is a valuable and necessary member of the scientific community. He detects a tendency on the part of the professional naturalist to warn the amateur off the ground. Whether any such mischievous claim of proprietorship is actually set up is not clear to us; the naturalist who pursues his hobby for recreation only is, according to our own experience, welcomed by everybody, if only he is a good fellow, who will bring in his own contributions, great or small, to the general stock, and not spread false information. Dr. Robinson's animated defence of the amateur naturalist may therefore be gladly allowed to prevail; we are only surprised to learn that any defence is needed.
Wild Traits in Tame Animals.
By Louis Robinson Pp. vii + 329. Illustrated. (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood and Sons, 1897.)
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M., L. Wild Traits in Tame Animals. Nature 57, 150 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057150a0
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