«To me be Nature's volume broad displayed ; 
And to peruse its all-instructing page, 
Or, haply catching inspiration thence, 
Some easy passage, raptured, to translate, 
My sole delight.” 
THOMSON. 
“Full Nature swarms with life; one wondrous mass 
Of animals or atoms organized, 
Waiting the vital breath, when Parent-Heaven 
Shall bid his spirit blow.” » 
Id. 
“ Reader, our companionship ends here. Should the author have persuaded 
thee to follow in his footsteps, to tread the paths which he has trodden, to gaze 
with an inquiring and delighted eye on those things which he has gazed on,— 
itisenough. He bids thee affectionately—farewell!” 
Epwarp Newman, in ‘ Grammar of Entomology. 
