“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of ski...

Your egoist, like the solitary beasts, lives only for himself; your altruist declares that he lives only for others; for either there may be success or failure but for neither can there be tragedy. Fo...

The journal begins when its author is a little over thirteen years old. The following are selected entries. January 3 Am writing an essay on the life-history of insects and have abandoned the idea of ...

January 21 Am at last beginning to get more content with the work at the Museum, so that I muse on Bernard Shaw’s saying, “Get what you like or you’ll grow to like what you get.” I have a terrible sus...

September 12 This evening we walked through the Churchyard reading tombstone inscriptions. What a lot of men have had wives! I can’t make out what has come over folk recently: the wit, wisdom and iron...

Up to 1911, the Journal is mainly devoted to records of observations in general Natural History and latterly in Zoology alone. ↩ There are numerous drawings of dissections scattered through the Journa...