"Onines res creatsT! sunt, divinse sapient.ias et poteiitiic testes, divitire felicitatis 

 humaiije :— ex barum usu bonitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconomia in conservatione, proportions, renovatione, potentia majestatis 

 elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab boininibus sibi relictis semper Eestiraata ; 

 a Tere eruditis et sajjientibus semper exculta; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linn^us. 



" Quel que soifc le priueipe de la vie animale, il ne f'aut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

 Toir qu'elle est le chef-d'oeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutes ses operations." — Bruckneu, Tkeorie du S//steme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



The sylvan povcers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Di-yads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with uhnble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round fen 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 who.se smooth facp 



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, 



Tlie burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, ls!orwich, 1818, 



