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 changing waters, varying currents and eddies—the stability of a stream that spreads over the lowland or thru the delta with a dozen offspring streamlets, while the flowing stream still remains the stream of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Tho the taxonomist's specimens seem insignificant, the data tedious, and the dry-rot of the technic unendurable, the pinned specimens in the box are a bit of the forests and the hills and the days where the drama of wasp life is unfolded, an evidence of ancient origins, mutating genes, and inexorable marches of evolution, an epitome of the enduring and everlastingly changing entities which are species.