PREFACE. Vll 



face or movement of the body is to him an index of the 

 inner life; the naturalist's eye, quickened in all its 

 powers by observation, sees the folding of a leaf, the 

 spot upon the wall, the track of an insect on his path, 

 where the untrained eye sees nothing. The Microscope 

 gives this training, if it is rightly used, that is, with 

 intelligent inquiry, with careful reading on the various 

 subjects, as they are suggested by mounted objects,* 

 and observation of the living creatures in this beautiful 

 world around us. 



None but those who have enjoyed it can tell how 

 refreshing and uplifting to the spirit is an hour at the 

 Microscope an hour of thoughtful, reverent study of 

 the wisdom, power, and love of God in creation. 

 Science, when it is merely "la grande curiosite/' or 

 when pursued for selfish pleasure and ambition, is not 

 the end for which the Microscope was given to us. 

 There must be a link with the UNSEEN and the 

 ETERNAL, a light from the true WISDOM, if our ways are 

 to be the ways of pleasantness, and our paths to end 

 in peace. 



WOODEATON KECTORY. 



* " Kirby & Spence's Entomology." 

 " Insecta Britannica." 



" Westwood's Introduction to Entomology." 

 " Balfour's Botany." 

 "Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom." 

 " Unger's Letters." 

 " Johnstone on Zoophytes." 

 " Harvey on Seaweeds." 

 ** Slack's Marvels of Pond Life." 



