"Omnes res creatie sunt divinfc sapientifc et potentia; testes, divitia; felicitatis 

 hmnanie:^ — ex haruni iisu honitas Creatoris; ex pulebritudine sapienfia Domini ; 

 ex ceeonomia iu conservatione, proportione, i-enovatione, potcntia niajestatis 

 elucet. Eariini itaque indagatio ab hoininibus sibi relictis semper ffistimata ; 

 a Tere eriiditis et sajjientibus semper excidta; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fiiit." — 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." — Buuckneii, Theorie du Systeme Animal, Leydeii, 

 1767. 



Tlie sylvan powers 



Obey our summons; from tiieir deepest dells 



Tlie Dryads come, and throw tlieir garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That pi'ess with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



Eut 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, 



Tlie burnnig sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us imlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. TAyr.OR, Norwich, '{^-X^. 



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ALF.RE I FI.AiMMAM. 



