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THERE are two ways of studying a plant or an animal. One of these consists in the mere contemplation and description of its external aspects and behaviour. Persons who occupy themselves with this sort of study are commonly called naturalists; for it is by them that by far the greater proportion of the facts we possess relating to natural objects has been gained.
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Venus's Fly-Trap (Dionæa Muscipula)*. Nature 10, 105–107 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010105c0
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