628 Sir John Lubbock on Fruits and Seeds. [Feb. 18, 



plants, which would not amply justify and richly reward the most 

 careful study. 



In this, as in other branches of 'science, we have but made a 

 beginning. We have learnt just enough to perceive how little we 

 know. Our great masters in natural history have immortalised them- 

 selves by their discoveries, but they have not exhausted the field ; and 

 if seeds and fruits cannot vie with flowers in the brilliance and color 

 with which they decorate our gardens and our fields, still they surely 

 rival, it would be impossible to excel them, in the almost infinite 

 variety of the problems they present to us, in the ingenuity, the in- 

 terest, and the charm of the beautiful contrivances which they offer 

 for our study and our admiration. 



[J. L.] 



