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some selected favourite, a thought, that others might ponder 

 for in vain ; anon, lighting up the eye of sorrow like sunshine 

 in a shower? Where is thy site, and where thy home? Oh, 

 give me wings, that I may mount up above the — 



Amb. — heads of common men ! 



Erro. Yet I have seen genius weighing like an incubus on 

 trembling brains, till all was dark; or, if the eye retained 

 the power to flash, flashing in mockery. 



Ven. Mr. Erro, I believe we wait for you. 



Erro. I must adopt your plan, and wish — " Success to the 

 Study of Zoology." 



Omnes. " Success to the Study of Zoology." 



Amb. The mind does not point to a single individual so 

 forcibly as in the former instances. 



Erro. I intended the compliment, if from me it is one, to 

 three of our countrymen. 



Ven. Grant, Bell, and Yarrel. 



Erro. Yes, those are the three. I don't know which 

 stands first. 



Ent. Nor I ; when I reflect on the merits of either, I con- 

 sider him for the time the first. The sterling sense and clear 

 head of Yarrel ; the indefatigable energy of the Doctor ; and 

 the accomplished accuracy of Bell, are equally to be admired : 

 the humility with which these great men receive, and the 

 modesty with which they impart information, must raise them 

 high in the estimation of all who know them. 



Amb. I wonder that neither Mr. Yarrel nor Mr. Bell has 

 been elected a Professor of Zoology. 



Ent. Bell would make an excellent one. What a lustre 

 he would confer on a college ! — his lectures are exquisitely 

 clear and beautiful. I have never heard Yarrel lecture ; I 

 believe he does not. Dr. Grant's matter is sound ; his style 

 clear and concise, with just sufficient repetition to force every 

 head, not wooden, to comprehend. 



Amb. His lectures, that we attended together last winter at 

 Bruton Street, were really admirable ; but he allowed rather 

 too little time to entomology. 



Ven. Allow me the pleasure of proposing — " Success to 

 the Study of Entomology." 



Omnes. " Success," &c. 



Ven. I would from courtesy exclude the present company, 



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