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and, it is quite unnecessary to mention how 

 many sweet and touching passages to the same 

 effect, might be extracted from the writings of 

 the poets. of our own father-land. The love of 

 nature, and a sympathy with her beauties, spring 

 and ripen, as much from the observation of the 

 smallest creatures, as from the contemplation 

 of the habits and manners of the most noble ; 

 and the essence of poetry, all but that which 

 panders to the passions of mankind, consists in 

 a minute perception of the harmony, the beau- 

 ty and the loveliness, which adorn the face of the 

 earth. 



With respect then to the sources of enjoyment 

 to insects furnished by their senses, that they 

 smell there seems to be no doubt, and that the 

 vegetable world affords a most abundant source 

 of enjoyment to the sense of smell, must be 

 equally admitted. Further, the possession of 

 the same sense leads many species to the choice 

 of their food or the pursuit of their prey ; while 

 the ejection of fluids of noxious odour is to 

 others, as in the instance of the tenebrise, a 

 means of defence. That smell is productive of 

 pleasure, is further shewn in the habits of many 

 dipterous and hymenopterous insects, and of 

 most butterflies. Sphinxes and many phalsense 

 fly about the flowers of lilies and other sweetly 

 smelling plants ; and, generally speaking, the 

 most fragrant plants are the most frequently vi- 

 sited by insects of all kinds. The immediate 

 organ of smell in insects is very questionable ; 



