Francis Trevelyan Buckland Quotes
1826–1880 England
- England
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At all times the faculty which is most useful is that of quick and accurate observations of truths both small and great.
Inanimate objects, though voiceless, are, in my experience, most valuable witnesses to truths both current and past.
Blennies possess a curious faculty, which was formerly attributed solely to the chameleon, the power of moving their eyes either in unison or independent of each other: thus, they are seen glancing in one direction with one eye, while the other remains motionless, or is turned towards a different point. Bennies, wrasses, suckers, possess this peculiarity in the powers of vision.
Natural History of British Fishes (1881)