Quoted by Adam Dodd, 'Popular Entomology and Anthropomorphism in the Nineteenth Century: L.M. Budgen's Episodes of Insect Life', in Thorsen et. al., Animals on Display (2013), pp. 153-175.
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'"There are more ways than one," wrote Philip Henry Gosse in 1860, "of studying natural history."... Gosse... displayed good sense in his summary of the ways that natural history might be studied - a summary that echoes current perspectives on the historical diversity of the "doing" of natural history itself: "There is Dr. Dryasdust's way; which consists of mere accuracy of definition and dofferentiation; statistics as harsh and dry as the skins and bones in the museum where it is studied. There is the field-observer's way; the careful and conscientious accumulation and record of facts bearing on the life-history of the creatures... And there is the poet's way; who looks at nature through a glass peculiarly his own; the aesthetic aspect, which deals, not with statistics, but with the emotions of the human mind, - surprise, wonder, terror, revulsion, admiration, love, desire, and so forth, - which are made energetic by a contemplation of the creatures around him.' (153)