4o6 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



fathers of natural history, let us not do them the injustice to suppose 

 that posthumous fame was the object for which they worked. Like Sir 

 Thomas Browne, they believed that "the world was made to be inhabited 

 by beasts, but to be studied by man." I^et us emulate their works and 

 let us share with them the admonitions of the Religio Medici. 



"The wisdom of God," says Browne, "receives small honor from 

 those vulgar heads that rudely stray about, and with a gross rusticity 

 admire His works; those highly magnify Him whose judicious inquiry 

 into His acts, and deliberate research into His creatures, return the duty 

 of a devout and learned admiration. Therefore," he continues — 



Search while thou wilt and let thy reason go 

 To ransom truth, even to the abysse below, 

 Rally the scattered causes, and that line 

 Which nature twists be able to untwine. 

 It is thy Maker's will, for unto none 

 But unto reason can He e'er be known. 



