5 2o Appendix 



Note, Blutnenbach told me that the abscission of the horns of 

 the stag and male deer had the effect of castration. 



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Say, ivhat impels, amidst surrounding snow 

 CongeaPd, the crocus' flamy bud to glow? 

 Say, what retards, amidst the summer's blaze, 

 77i' autumnal bulb, till pale, declining days? 

 The GOD <T/"SKASONS, whose pervading power 

 Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower : 

 He bids each flower his quickening word obey ; 

 Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay. 



Note. A noble paraphrase of " / dorit know? 



Vol. If. p. 10 [324]. Some birds have movements peculiar to 

 the season of love : thus ringdoves, though strong and rapid at 

 other times, yet in the Spring hang about on the wing in a toying 

 and playful manner ; thus the cock snipe, while breeding, forgetting 

 his former flight, fans the air like the wind-hover, &c. 



Note. This matter has disappointed me. I have myself 

 made and collected a better table of characters of flight and 

 motion. 



Vol. 1 1. p. 101 [393]. Why the juices in the small bodies and 

 smaller limbs of such minute beings are not frozen is a matter of 

 curious inquiry. 



Note. The more apposite question, perhaps, would be : the 

 juices having been frozen, is it not plain from this that the vital 

 principle subsists in the solids ? The juices in a frozen caterpillar 

 are mere ice, and it breaks like a cylinder of thin glass of the 

 same size, and yet thaw it with your breath and the animal 

 crawls. 



Vol. II. p. 1 06 [397]. A circumstance that I must not omit, 

 because it was new to us, is that on Friday, December 10, being 

 bright sunshine, the air was full of icy spicuhe, floating in all 

 directions, like atoms in a sunbeam let into a dark room. We 

 thought them at first particles of the rime falling from my tall 



