" Blow, ye winds ! lift me with yoii ! 

 I come to the wild. 

 Fold closely, O Nature .' 



Thifie arms round thy child. 



To thee only God granted 



A heart ever new — 

 To all always open. 



To all always true." 



Matthew Arnold : Switzerland." 



" Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary hunumity : 

 children love them j quiet, contented, ordinary people love them as 

 they grow ; luxurious and disorderly people rejoice ift them gathered ; 

 they are the cottager's tf-easure ; and in the crowded tozun, mark, as 

 with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the ruindows of the workers 

 in whose hearts rests the covenant of peace" 



RUSKIN. 



'"'' To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country, or sea- 

 side, stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of 

 art, nine-te7tths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach 

 him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a 

 catalogue of those which are worth turning round." 



Professor Huxley : 

 " Educational Value of Natural History Sciences." 



" /;; these days, -when enormous sums are annually spent witli 

 universal consent ott almost every kind of educational object, it is 

 strange hozu little is as yet thought of the potuerful influence in 

 teaching that a well-arranged museum may affoj'd." 



Sir William Flower, F.R.S. : 

 In a Letter to "The Times," August, 31st, 1891. 





