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Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History: A Quarterly Magazine With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist"
Mr. Young was a Fellow of the Entomological Society, but his modesty was such that he seldom used the title.
All Mr. Young's energies were expended on his beloved Museum. He looked upon it as kz's Museum - Ms birds, My insects, kz's ?owers. He was unmarried, but the Museum, with its birds, its beasts, and its plants, and, above all, with its insects, held for him some of the joys which others find in the domestic circle. Like many of the older zoologists, he loved the old ways and the beaten paths, and had very little sympathy with modern scientific theories. With the theory of evolution, for example, and its principles of develop ment and adaptation to circumstances, he had little patience. The mere mention of Darwin's name to him was like waving a red ?ag before a bull - not that he did not admire Darwin, but because the theory of evolution of which Darwin was the author was to him heresy unpardonable.
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