RED CAMPION AGAIN. 49 



But what centum lingua, what ferrea vox, 

 would ever suffice to reconstruct the whole 

 history of all the plants and animals I can 

 see around me ? It is easy enough to catch 

 their episodes vaguely as one examines them ; 

 but to write them all down in definite language 

 is a task of which even science itself may 

 well despair. 



