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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
74
On
the
present
occasion
he
is
unusually
elated,
for
he
has
made
the
discovery
of
a
Holothuria
with
twenty
tentacula,
a
species
of
the
Echinodermata
which
Professor
Forbes,
in
his
book
on
Star-Fishes,
has
said
was
never
yet
observed
in
the
British
seas.
It
may
be
of
small
moment
to
you,
who,
mayhap,
know
nothing
of
Holothurias:
but
it
is
a
considerable
thing
to
the
Fauna
of
Britain,
and
a
vast
matter
to
a
poor
private
of
the
Cornwall
mounted
guard.
And
accordingly
he
will
go
home
in
a
few
days,
full
of
the
glory
of
his
exhibition,
and
strong
anew
by
the
kind
notice
taken
of
him
by
the
masters
of
the
science,
to
similar
inquiries,
difficult
as
it
may
be
to
prosecute
them,
under
such
a
complication
of
duties,
professional
and
domestic.
Honest
Peach!
humble
as
is
thy
home,
and
simple
thy
bearing,
thou
art
an
honour
even
to
this
assemblage
of
nobles
and
doctors:
nay,
more,
when
we
consider
everything,
thou
art
an
honour
to
human
nature
itself;
for
where
is
the
heroism
like
that
of
virtuous,
intelligent,
independent
poverty?
And
such
heroism
is
thine!”—
Chambers’
Edin.
Journ.,
Nov.
23,
1844.
Mr.
Peach
has
been
since
rewarded
in
part
for
his
long
labours
in
the
cause
of
science,
by
having
been
removed
to
a
more
lucrative
post
on
the
north
coast
of
Scotland;
the
earnest,
it
is
to
be
hoped,
of
still
further
promotion.
I
mentioned
just
now
Synapta;
or,
as
Montagu
called
it,
Chirodota:
a
much
better
name,
and,
I
think,
very
uselessly
changed;
for
Chirodota
expresses
the
peculiarity
of
the
beast,
which
consists
in—
start
not,
reader—
twelve
hands,
like
human
hands,
while
Synapta
expresses
merely
its
power
of
clinging
to
the
fingers,
which
it
possesses
in
common
with
many
other
animals.
It
is,
at
least,
a
beast
worth
talking
about;
as
for
finding
one,
I
fear
that
we
have
no
chance
of
such
good
fortune.
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