INTRODUCTION. XI 



that nothing can be done in Natural History without 

 scientific terms, and that these must be given in the 

 words of an obsolete language in order to their com- 

 munication among the nations of the world whose tongues 

 are so various and even their idioms so diverse. This, 

 I say, I know; but I know also, as one who has had 

 the benefit of a classical education, that though these 

 passwords will do for the learned, they will not do for 

 those who have had no opportunities of becoming so, 

 and that if you would gain the hearts of the people to 

 the studies you love yourself, you must make yourself 

 at home with them in the outset in the words you em- 

 ploy. Nay, more, if you would have them wholly with 

 you, you must let them see and feel that you yourself 

 are one of them in taste and feeling. Who, that knows 

 anything of the "Pleasures of Memory," would change 

 the common English names of our wild plants for others 

 of a more pretentious character, and make, as it were, 

 his own youth no part of his present existence? Who 

 would not leave the humble Daisy to be a Daisy still? 

 Who, that has ever been a child, would wish the 

 Heart's-case to be other than the Heart's-ease, the Butter- 

 cup than the Butter-cup, the Lark-spur than the Lark- 

 spur, the Mouse-ear than the Mouse-ear, the Foxglove 

 than the Foxglove? What lover will wish the Forget- 

 me-not to be no more had in remembrance, or the name 

 of the Violet to be done away? Who, of any age, or in 

 any situation or station of life, but will stand up, for 

 "Auld Lang Syne," for the pale Primrose, and the gay 

 Daffodil, the modest Lily of the Valley, and the blushing 

 Eglantine, the fragrant Meadow-sweet, the tender Hare- 

 bell, the lowly Speedwell, the scented Sweetbriar, the 

 pure Snowdrop, the lovely Hawthorn, and the welcome 

 Traveller's Joy, each of which gives in turn a charm 



