"Omnes res creatae sunt divinse sapientiae et potentise testes, divitiae felicitalis 

 humanac: — ex liarum usu honitas Creatoris ; ex pulcliritudine saptentia Domini; 

 ex oeconnmiain conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis elucet. 

 Earum itaque indagatio ab honiinibus sibi relictis semper aestimata; a verd eriiditis 

 et sapientibus semper exculta; male doctis et barbaris semper inimica fuit." — 



LlNN^US. 



" Quelque 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 le but auquel se rapportent 

 toutes ses operations." — Bruckner, Theorie du Systeme Animal, Leyden, 1767. 



The sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with niml)le 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 ns unlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, Norwich, 1S18. 



FLAMMAM. 



