-does not always require care and foresight, especially if living objects be removed from a natural to an artificial position. Doubtless the "savage," as we call him, somewhat too contemptuously, enjoys a considerable amount of health, but when he is placed within the pale of civilization,-when, i. e., he is rendered liable to the stimulus of "fire-water" and to the depressing influence of the impure exhalations of a camp or a town life, he needs more than the former care to secure to himself those conditions which the Creator has decreed to be necessary to the well-being of this section of His creation. Evidently, then, if we have been instrumental in effecting this local and material change, it becomes our duty to secure also the additional precautions which can only be effected by an extra amount of trouble. And if this is true in the case of a man, it is equally true in kind, though not in degree, in the case of a SEA-ANEMONE. CHAPTER V. WHAT WILL IT DO WHEN I HAVE GOT IT? NATURALISTS, it has been said, may be divided into two classes: the first comprising "collectors," or those who gather and preserve specimens, whether living or dead, for the purposes of comparison and classification; the second including the larger company of "observers," or those who combine a great love for Nature in all her forms with considerable opportunity for remarking her operations at all times and seasons, who are ever in the woods and fields, on the mountain side or by the sea-shore, and thus acquire gradually a thorough knowledge of the shapes and habits of plants and animals. But it is also said, and very justly, that a union of the methods of proceeding is necessary to ensure accuracy and certainty in any system of arrangement—that is, to constitute a perfect naturalist. The importance of collecting for the sake of comparison is obvious. In a single species the varieties |