Century Dictionary. Cf. also
Poe's Descent into the Maelstrom.]
[Footnote 97: Milne-Edwards (1800-1885): a French naturalist. His
Elements de Zoologie won him a great reputation.]
[Footnote 98: with such qualifications as arises: a typographical
error.]
[Footnote 99: De Bary (1831-1888): a German botanist noted especially
for his researches in cryptogamic botany.]
[Footnote 100: No Man's Land: Huxley probably intends no specific
geographical reference. The expression is common as a designation of
some remote and unfrequented locality.]
[Footnote 101: Kuhne (1837-1900): a German physiologist and professor of
science at Amsterdam and Heidelberg.]
[Footnote 102: Debemur morti nos nostraque: Horace--Ars Poetica, line
63.
As forests change their foliage year by year,
Leaves, that come first, first tall and disappear;
So antique words die out, and in their room,
Others spring up, of vigorous growth and bloom;
Ourselves and all that's ours, to death are due,
And why should words not be mortal too?
Martin's translation.]
[Footnote 103: peau de chagrin: skin of a wild ass.]
[Footnote 104: Balzac (1799-1850): a celebrated French novelist of the
realistic school of fiction.]
[Footnote 105: Barmecide feast: the allusion is to a story in the
Arabian Nights in which a member of the Barmecide family places a
succession of empty dishes before a beggar, pretending that they contain
a rich repast.
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