i-QMible check to the progress of Science is that the works on it arc 

 becoming too voluminous; it is becoming scholastic : life will be too short to learn it, 

 and no time will be left for discoveries.' 



e told, whoever may be hurt by it. There is no doubt that some 

 r* endeavor to conceal in a fog of mere words the want of clear and well-defined 

 idea*, as well M of that critical knowledge which is indispensable in Natural Hi.-- 



this that has arisen that legion of phantoms which so effectually 

 orieoced." Anon. Gardener's C/imnitl,-. /)<<-., 1854. 



