"Omnes res creatre sunt divinffi sapientioe efc potentia; testes, divitia; felieitatis 

 hunianiE:— ex harum usu honitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex ceconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potcfiiia majestatis 

 elucet. Eanim itaque indagatio ab lioniinibus sibi relictis semper aestimata ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculbi ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linnaeus. 



" Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

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

 tent toutes ses operations."— Bkuckneu, Tkeorie dit Si/demc 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 Kymphs 



That press with nimble 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 ol' Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, Norwich, 1818, 



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