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very useful for keeping caterpillars previously to dissect- 

 ing them, as it consolidated the parts a . 



And now having brought to a close my long wander- 

 ings in this ample and intricate field, and having threaded, 

 as well as my slender powers and limited knowledge 

 enabled me, the infinite turnings and convolutions of 

 this Daedalean labyrinth the Anatomy and Physiology 

 of insects, will you not own that the volume of won- 

 ders I have laid before you proves irrefragably that, 

 though these minims of nature apparently rank so low 

 in the scale of being, yet in their structure, instead of 

 being, as might be expected, more simple, they are in- 

 finitely more complex and highly wrought than those 

 animals that are placed the nearest to ourselves? the CRE- 

 ATOR in the latter doing every thing by a beautiful simpli- 

 city; while in the former, the more to magnify his power 

 and skill, because they afford no apparent space for it, 

 by a wonderfully curious and intricate multiplicity: and 

 whether we study the one or the other, we shall in both 

 trace the footsteps of that adorable LOVE which has 

 shown attention to the comfort and well-being of the 

 lowest insect, as well as of the highest of his creatures. 



I am, &c. 



a These directions for dissecting are chiefly taken from Swammer- 

 dam, Life xiv. and Lyonet Anat. 7. 



