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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
147
For
this
last
reason,
I
especially
recommend
to
the
young
the
Rev.
C.
A.
Johns’s
“Week
at
the
Lizard,”
as
teaching
a
young
person
how
much
there
is
to
be
seen
and
known
within
a
few
square
miles
of
these
British
Isles.
But,
indeed,
all
Mr.
Johns’s
books
are
good
(as
they
are
bound
to
be,
considering
his
most
accurate
and
varied
knowledge),
especially
his
“Flowers
of
the
Field,”
the
best
cheap
introduction
to
systematic
botany
which
has
yet
appeared.
Trained,
and
all
but
self-trained,
like
Mr.
Hugh
Miller,
in
a
remote
and
narrow
field
of
observation,
Mr.
Johns
has
developed
himself
into
one
of
our
most
acute
and
persevering
botanists,
and
has
added
many
a
new
treasure
to
the
Flora
of
these
isles;
and
one
person,
at
least,
owes
him
a
deep
debt
of
gratitude
for
first
lessons
in
scientific
accuracy
and
patience,—
lessons
taught,
not
dully
and
dryly
at
the
book
and
desk,
but
livingly
and
genially,
in
adventurous
rambles
over
the
bleak
cliffs
and
ferny
woods
of
the
wild
Atlantic
shore,—
“Where
the
old
fable
of
the
guarded
mount
Looks
toward
Namancos
and
Bayona’s
hold.”
Mr.
Henfrey’s
“Rudiments
of
Botany”
might
accompany
Mr.
Johns’s
books.
Mr.
Babington’s
“Manual
of
British
Botany”
is
also
most
compact
and
highly
finished,
and
seems
the
best
work
which
I
know
of
from
which
a
student
somewhat
advanced
in
English
botany
can
verify
species;
while
for
ferns,
Moore’s
“Handbook”
is
probably
the
best
for
beginners.
For
Entomology,
which,
after
all,
is
the
study
most
fit
for
boys
(as
Botany
is
for
girls)
who
have
no
opportunity
for
visiting
the
sea-shore,
Catlow’s
“Popular
British
Entomology,”
having
coloured
plates
(a
delight
to
young
people),
and
saying
something
of
all
the
orders,
is,
probably,
still
a
good
work
for
beginners.
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