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tell me now, how in that rising land our darHng science thrives? 

 Does Swainson write? Swainson, that master of a gifted pen, 

 the first in fame of those I left behind ; his country's honour, 

 and his age's pride. 



Lep. He writes but little, but his pencil speaks ; and to 

 the gazer's eye, the history gives. 



Cuv. His rest must, then, be as a giant's sleep; he will arise 

 anon, and shake the land. 



Lat. And Kirby ! my illustrious compeer ? how my heart 

 beats to clasp him in my arms! 



Lep. His "Introduction" v.as his last great work, a 

 monument of labour ! 'twill endure to distant times. Immortal 

 Cuvier! think on the importance of this noble work ! nearly 

 two hundred names unknown before invented in anatomy 

 alone ! 



Raius. Immense ! how cramped and limited the store 

 when first I ventured on description's path ! but how could 

 these, Fabricius and Latreille, have left two hundred parts 

 unseen, unknown ? 



Sto. Were there two hundred parts unnamed before ? 



Lep. No ! but he gave them more important names — he 

 gave them better names — much better names ! 



Sto. My Lepidopterophilus ! excuse my doubting of the 

 value of such change ; this is the plan that I would recom- 

 mend : a name once given, let that name abide, for who is to 

 decide which name to use when every publisher invents a new? 

 Thou deem'st his merit what I deem his fault, a too great 

 readiness in giving names; yet is thy Kirby a philosopher, and 

 when he comes into the land of bliss, we shall crowd round, 

 and claim him as a friend. 



Marsham. So, Lepidopterophilus, you stayed to finish up 

 your task before you came ? 



Lep. Marsham ! alas ! 1 was but poorly versed in the con- 

 cluding part, — the little moths. 



Cuv. But I must ask you of the Doctor Leach; there lives 

 no man on earth of equal mind — disinterested, pure, and gene- 

 rous; of keen perception, and of judgment sound; his was a 

 task from which all others shrank. 



Lep. He is a wanderer in foreign lands. 



Cuv. And young Mac Leay, the learned man of fives ! say, 



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