^Taming the Jjlotoer. 



" The Swedish sage admires, in yonder bowers, 

 His winged insects and his rosy flowers; 

 Calls from their savage haunts the woodland train 

 With sounding horn, and counts them on the plain : 

 So once, at Heaven's command, the wanderers came 

 To Eden's shade, and heard their various name." CAMPBELL. 



T is pleasant to trace the steps of a genius 

 like Linnaeus going over completely new 

 ground in the wide field of natural his- 

 tory ; classing and naming birds, insects, 

 and flowers, oftentimes according to a system which 

 his own ingenuity and penetration had devised to 

 supply the deficiencies of former naturalists. An 

 active examination of the minuter parts of the 

 object under his consideration frequently enabled 

 him to arrive at a juster conclusion as to the order 

 or genus to which it belonged than others who had 

 preceded him ; and sometimes, after having with 

 indefatigable industry ascertained these points, he 

 indulged himself in combining with his new dis- 

 covery associations of friendship or of historical or 

 classical allusion. After this fashion he honoured 



