558 Nature an exhaustless Source of Intelligence. 



If it be the first step to distinguish the false from the true*, 

 there still remains, when this is done, a wide and immeasur- 

 able field open before us for diligent research and investiga- 

 tion. The mine we work in is inexhaustible ; and immense 

 stores of rich and unwrought ore yet await and solicit the 

 labours of our hands. " Multum adhuc restat operis, mul- 

 tumque restabit : nee ulli nato post mille saecula, praecludetur 

 occasio aliquid adhuc adjiciendi." Much work remains to be 

 done, and will remain ; nor will any one, born after the lapse 

 of a thousand ages, be precluded from the opportunity of 

 adding something to the general stock. 

 Allesley Recton/, Sept. 1832. 



[^The Anatomical Treatise of M. Lyonnet on the Caterpillar 

 of the Cossus ligniperda has, from the period of the publication 

 of it, 70 years ago, been considered as a production quite 

 unrivalled for minute and accurate research. (From a mention 

 of the works of Lyonnet in I. 282.) 



The late Rev. Lansdown Guilding had connected the fol- 

 lowing forcible remark with that mention, in a collection of 

 notes which he had made in relation to subjects contained in 

 Vols. I. and II. of this Magazine, and had sent to us before 

 his death (see p. 355.). (There is but one date to the whole 

 collection ; it is at the end, and is, " St. Vincent, May 1, 

 1830.")] 



How many thousands of animals are there equally worthy 

 of an anatomical treatise as the Cossus described by Lyonnet : 

 but were all the inhabitants of our globe employed in the 

 task, when would they furnish illustrations of the countless 

 works of nature, in their various stages of growth and per- 

 fection ? In a higher and nobler sphere of existence, all that 

 is now hidden, or beyond the industry of man, may be made 

 known to us. 



" O Nature ! how in every charm supreme ! 

 Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ; 

 Oh for the voice and fire of seraphim, 

 Tc sing thy glories with devotion due I " 



[L. Guilding. St. Vincent, Mai/ 1. 1830.] 



* " Primus sapientiae gradus est, falsa intelligere." — Quoted by Sir 

 T. Brown at the conclusion of his Vulgar Eirors. 



