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The man who would effectually learn from nature, must approach with affection, and receive her instructions with a humility that would ill accord with any subsequent vain display of the knowledge acquired.
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A pompous ornithologist is of all characters one of the most absurd; and the solemnity of scientific pride sits ill upon him who is alternately scaling precipices and wading bogs, chasing the ptarmigan on the weatherbeaten summits of the Highland hills, and pursuing the flights of plovers along the sandy shores of our bays and estuaries.
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Born:
January 25, 1796
Died:
September 4, 1852
(aged 56)
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Prof William MacGillivray FRSE MWS LLD was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
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