Identifier: dicksandsboycapt00vern (find matches)
Title: Dick Sands : the boy captain
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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his whole timewas devoted to one absorbing passion for natural history.Not that he had any large claim to be regarded properly asa natural historian ; he had made no excursions over thewhole four districts of zoology, botany, mineralogy, and geo-logy, into which the realms of natural history are commonlydivided ; indeed, he had no pretensions at all to be either abotanist, a mineralogist, or a geologist; his studies onlysufficed to make him a zoologist, and that in a very limitedsense. No Cuvier was he ; he did not aspire to decomposeanimal life by analysis, and to recompose it by synthesis ;his enthusiasm had not made him at all deeply versed invertebrata, mollusca, or radiata ; in fact, the vertebrata—animals, birds, reptiles, fishes—had had no place in his re-searches ; the mollusca—from the cephalopoda to the bryozia—had had no attractions for him ; nor had he consumed themidnight oil in investigating the radiata, the echinodermatajacalephas, polypi, entozoa, or infusoria.
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Cousin Benedict. THE PILGRIM. 13 No ; Cousin Benedicts interest began and ended with thearticulata; and it must be owned at once that his studieswere very far from embracing all the range of the six classesinto which articulata ■ are subdivided ; viz., the insecta, themyriapoda, the arachnida, the Crustacea, the cirrhopoda, andtheanelides ; and he was utterly unable in scientific languageto distinguish a worm from a leech, an earwig from a sea-acorn, a spider from a scorpion, a shrimp from a frog-hopper,or a galley-worm from a centipede. To confess the plain truth, Cousin Benedict was an amateurentomologist, and nothing more. Entomology, it may be asserted, is a wide science; itembraces the whole division of the articulata ; but our friendwas an entomologist only in the ftmited sense of the popularacceptation of the word ; that is to say, he was an observerand collector of insects, meaning by insects those articu-lata which have bodies consisting of a number of concentricmovable rin

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