"Omnes res creatae sunt divinse sapientise et potentiae testes, divitise felicitatis 

 humanse : — ex harum usu honitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconomiain conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis elucet. 

 Eariim itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibirelictis semper aestimata; S. ver& eruditis 

 et sapientibus semper exculta ; 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 le chef-d'oeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rapportent 

 toutes ses operations." — Bruckner, Theorie du SystSme 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 Nymphs 

 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 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. 



