"Omnes res creatae sunt divinse sapientise et potentiis testes, divitije felicitatia 

 humanje : — ex harum usu bonitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconomia iu conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatia 

 elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper sestimata; 

 a Tere eruditis et sapientibus sempa? exculta ; male doetis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linn^us. 



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

 Toir qu'elle est le cbef-d'oeuTre de la Toute-puissance, et lebut auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutes ses operations." — Bruckner, Theoric du Si/steme 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 Xymphs 



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 tre<id, 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay tlieir cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, Noriuich, 1818. 



