nsey omologist, and a dogged one att. In one expedition lasting tion of300,000 , alas, recorded.

    Somet ion of  be many institutions in trequire or are prepared to support specialists in barnacles or Pacific snails. As ed at tural ory Museum in London, I asked Ricey  ake his place.

    ily at my naiveté. “I’m afraid it’s not as if utessitting on ting to be called in to play.  retires or,even more unfortunately, dies, t can bring a stop to t field, sometimes for avery long while.”

    “And I suppose t’s udying asingle species of plant, even if it doesn’t produce anyterribly new?”

    “Precisely,” o mean it.