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THE ZOOLOGIST.
corpus senio, ac laborious confectum," when he answered the last roll-call.
The flowers that Turner loved so well had only blossomed for five more seasons when another famous alumnus of Cambridge laid aside his study of zoology. On July 29th, 1573, the spirit of John Caius fell upon a heavy slumber.
Oxford men are not disloyal, but we do envy our sister University the memory of these early naturalists, who surely owed whatever was noblest in their characters to the wise and discriminating education of their Alma Mater.
