"Omnes res create sunt divinse sapientia? et potentijv testes, divitiiv felicitatis 

 hiimanfe: — ex liaruin usu f/oiiilas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconoinia in eonservatione, proportione, renovatione, putentia majestatis 

 elucet. Eariiin itaque indagatio ab liominibus sibi relictis semper astiii ata ; 

 i vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta ; n)ale doctis et barbaris semper 

 iuimica fuit." — Linnaeus. 



" Quel que S(nt le priiicipe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

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

 tent tout.'-; -.'-; operations." — Bkucknek, Theorie du Si/deme Animal, Leyden, 

 17(37. 



The .sylvan powers 



Obey our summons; from their deepest dells 



The Drymls come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous brandies at our feet; tiie jS'vinphs 



Tliat press with nimble step the mount.iiin-tlijme 



And purple lieath-dower come not empty-handed, 



iUut scatter round ten thou.sand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, lorn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep: the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native .stream, from wlio.se smootli face 



They cro|> the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen pole.s, 



Wliere peril waits tlie bold adventurer's tread, 



Tlie burning sands of liorneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us uidock tiieir .secret stores 



A!id pay their clieorful tribute. 



J. T.wi.on, Xonrir/i, 1S18, 



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At-r.IlK i l'l,AM.MAM. 



