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HIGH BROWN FRITILLARY. 



PLATE XLIX. 

 Argynnis Adippe, Pabricius. Duncan. 



" " OCHSENHEIMEK. STEPHENS. 



JPapiUo Adijjpe, Linnaeus. Hakkis. Esper. 



" " Lewin. Donovan. 



Acidalia Adippe, Hubner. 



It lias been well observed, that all the best and highest 

 enjoyments of man are those which, coming as they do direct 

 from the bounteous hand of the Omnipotent Himself, are 

 not purchaseable with money or any other human commodity. 

 Every aspect under which nature is viewed throws light upon 

 this remark, and gilds it with the unmistakeable lustre of truth. 

 AVithout philosophising on the connection between mind and 

 matter, upon an investigation into which, if we enter, the result 

 at its close will be that we shall find ourselves on the threshold 

 at Avhich we first stood, it is certain that mental enjoyments 

 are those of primary moment, and those that. convey the highest 

 satisfaction to the intellectual man, to that part of man which 

 even the heathen philosopher perceived to be the man himself. 

 Where can you buy the feelings of the astronomer, or in what 

 Australia discover a reward for the successful mathematician? 

 Where is the El Dorado that will furnish a value which the 

 gifted mechanist would exchange for the widely extended 

 benefits his fellow-men derive from the years of his patient 

 endeavours? Under what "Mountain of light" shall you discover 

 a hidden treasure, the finding of which shall equal the exalted 

 delight with which you will gaze from its summit on all that 

 lies between it and the surrounding horizon? Wliat sublunary 

 pleasure can realize the depth of feeling with which you 



