"Onines res creata? sunt divinse sapieutia) et poleiituc testes, divitia; felieitatis 

 humanae : — ex harum usu honitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapie7ifia Domini ; 

 ex ceconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis 

 elucet. Earuni itaque indagatio ab liominibus sibi relictis semper ajstimata ; 

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

 inimica fuit." — LiNNiEus. 



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

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

 tent toutcs ses operations." — Bruckner, Theoric du Systcme Animal, Loyden, 

 1707. 



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 i^ress with nimble step the mountain-thymo 



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 cro]) tlie lily, and each sedge and rusli 



That drinks the rijipling tide: the frozen poles. 



Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread, 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, Norwich, 1818. 



