"Omnes res ereatas sunt divinae sapientiae et potentiae testes, divitiae felicitatia 

 biunanae: — exharum usu bonltas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapient ia Domini; 

 ex oeconomia in conservation, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatia 

 elucet. Eavura itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper aestimata ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta; male doetis et barbaris semper 

 in i mica fuit." — LinnjEUS. 



"Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

 voir qu'elle est le chef-d'oeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et lebut auquel se rappor- 

 teut toutes ses operations." — Biiuckner, Theorie du Sjsteme Animal, Leyden, 

 L767. 



The sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garland- wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round ten thousand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep : the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen poles, 



Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread, 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay their "baerful tribute. 



J. TAvr.oii, Norwich, 1818, 



