314f Shakspeare a Naturalist 



feed upon the barks of trees in severe winters, unless fodder 

 is supplied them, as is usual at that season. 

 iBecetved on Feb, 26. 1834.] 



[The subjects of the remainder of our correspondent's long 

 essay are the following, and are disposed in the following 

 order : — 



Lioness, mermaid, horse, bears, ass, weasel, ferret, monkey, 

 Irish rat, squirrel, fox, dogs, mole, conies, mouse ; phoenix, 

 nightingale, wren, swan, swallow, starling, harpy, pigeon, 

 kingfisher, cuckoo, barnacle, goose, osprey, quails, pelican, 

 lapwing, raven, crow, parrot; basilisk, toad, dragon and 

 griffin, eels, serpents, blindworm, viper, crocodile; bees, 

 breezefly, glowworm, silkworm, locust, insect generation by 

 the sun, flies, insect transformation, spider, beetle, wasps ; 

 pansy, cowslip, fairy rings, ivy, plantain, willow, yew, rose- 

 mary, oak, flowers of spring, flowers of summer, flag, pine, 

 mandrake, fern seed ; morning, evening, night. 



The citations and remarks relative to the horse, the ass, 

 the lioness, and the dog, we have taken the liberty to append 

 in the form of notes, to the following communication by Dr. 

 Turton upon these and kindred subjects, as its spirit is so 

 congenial with that of our present correspondent's communi- 

 cation as to make the association, we think, congruous, and 

 hope pardonable. To print, at once, the whole of the citations 

 and remarks upon all the subjects named above would give 

 us, in our own feeling, much pleasure ; but the pressure of 

 more technical matter forbids the doing of this at present, 

 and may prevent our recurring to it. The portion given 

 above, with the four notes, identified as our author's, to the 

 communication placed after this, is an indication of his in- 

 genious intentions, and a specimen, though scarcely a just 

 one, of his plan of fulfilling them. His object and plan must 

 be viewed with the welcome of sympathy by every student of 

 natural history who is, at the same time, a lover of poetry ; 

 and who can there be, as our correspondent has, in effect, 

 asked above, that, loving the one, loves not the other also ? 

 Of the lovers of nature, and these must be all who love their 

 " intellectual being," those who are most intimate with the 

 qualities and wonders discoverable in nature, will be those 

 •who will most concur in the delighting sentiment (delighting 

 because true, and justly complimentary to the object of our 

 pursuit), that " in nature is the ' only fund of great ideas ; ' " 

 and we know riot any subject nearer our heart than the one 



