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very useful for keeping caterpillars previously to dissect- 
ing them, as it consolidated the parts 3 . 
And now having brought to a close my long wander- 
ings in this ample and intricate field, and having threaded, 
as well as my slender powers and limited knowledge 
enabled me, the infinite turnings and convolutions of 
this Daedalean labyrinth — the Anatomy and Physiology 
of insects, — will you not own that the volume of won- 
ders I have laid before you proves irrefragably that, 
though these minims of nature apparently rank so low 
in the scale of being, yet in their structure, instead of 
being, as might be expected, more simple, they are in- 
finitely more complex and highly wrought than those 
animals that are placed the nearest to ourselves? the Cre- 
ator in the latter doing every thing by a beautiful simpli- 
city ; while in the former, the more to magnify his power 
and skill, because they afford no apparent space for it, 
by a wonderfully curious and intricate multiplicity : and 
whether we study the one or the other, we shall in both 
trace the footsteps of that adorable Love which has 
shown attention to the comfort and well-being of the 
lowest insect, as well as of the highest of his creatures. 
I am, &c. 
a These directions for dissecting are chiefly taken from Swanimcr- 
dam, Lifexiv. — and Lyonet Anat. 7 — . 
