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

 humanoB : — ex harum usii bonitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapiefitia Domini ; 

 ex ceconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis 

 elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper sestimata; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linnaeus. 



"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 rappor- 

 teut toutes ses operations." — Bruckner, Theorie du Si/sthne Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



The sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 

 The Dryads come, and throvr their garlands vnld 

 And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 

 That j)ress 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. 



