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forty days, between June and the beginning of August, no less 

 than 2,400 specimens and 100 new species, not including 

 Caterpillars. We have said that Insects are to be found every- 

 where, but if asked the best of all places for finding, and the 

 best of all ways to seek them, we should answer, in your own 

 garden, be it ever so confined, and by close examination of 

 every tree and plant it produces flowers, leaf, and stem, down 

 to the very roots, and even below them. Scrutiny like this will 

 make visible a multitude of strange little animals, and half 

 visible a multitude of their wondrous ways, to be made gra- 

 dually plainer by further exercise of eye and mind ; for we can 

 tell you, that in the divinely directed doings of the meanest of 

 them all, there is something worth the looking into. Lord of 

 Creation as you are, you will soon see how the Insect is per- 

 mitted to play the little Lord too, over the " good creatures '' 

 of the kingdom below him, and how, with tliis power, he has 

 had conferred on him the skill to employ them (each according 

 to its kind) for habitation, for food, for clothing, and for 

 pleasure. Things such as these have a higher claim upon your 

 interest and admiration than the mere external beauty even of 

 a flower garden, and when the flowers have all departed, even 

 now, when the leaves have gone the way of all things verdant, 

 they will furnish you with novelties to look for, and forms of 

 vitality to examine. On the leafless branches on which at 

 present you may vainly seek for a budding promise of spring, 

 you may yet find a promise of something more animate a group 



