Birds and Beasts, 

 And the mute Fish that glances in the stream, 

 And harmless Eeptile coiling in the sun, 

 And gorgeous Insect hovering in the air, 

 The Fowl domestic, and the household Dog, 

 In his capacious mind — he loved them all. 



WOEDSWORTH. 



Gem, flower and fish, the bird, the brute, 



Of every kind occult or known. 

 Each exquisitely formed to suit 



Its humble lot, and that alone. 

 Through ocean, oarth, and air fulfil, 

 Unconsciously, their Maker's will. 



A man may never aim at being anything more than a mere observer, and yet 

 employ his time usefully to others as well as agreeably to himself. He may restrict 

 himself to simply noting and recording what falls under his own autoima, and 

 unconsciously be laying the foundation «f the most important generalization. For 

 observation, though nut itself the true end of the science of Natural History, is 

 nevertheless a means to that end ; and, wliatever principles we ultimately arrive at, 

 it is only observation that can tave insured their correctness or permanence. — 

 Leonaed Jenyns. 



Niebuhr reckoned it among the most important results of his travels, that the 

 indiflferenee with which he was in the habit of regarding the objects of Nature 

 around him had given way ; and any who will educate themselves to observe, will 

 find that Niebuhr made no error in the reckoning. The senses are not given to 

 man with the Umited powers they have in brutes. They have eyes, but they, in one 

 sense, see not : whereas in us, the eye is, besides the visual organ, a sentinel and 

 sen'ant to watch and go forth, and bid welcome, the messenger which the Creator 

 sends to man in the presence of his works ; and to introduce these missengers into 

 the inner chambers, where the soul may hold fit converse and contemplation with 

 them. — Dr. Geoege Johnston. 



