** Omnes res creatze sunt divine sapientis; et potentie testes, divitie felicitatis 
humans :—ex harum usu bonitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini; 
ex cconomiá in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis 
elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper estimata ; 
à veré eruditis et To semper exculta; malè doctis et barbaris semper 
inimica fuit.”—Linnz 
* Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 
voir qu'elle est le chef-d'euvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 
tent toutes ses opérations."—BnmvckNwER, Théorie du Système Animal, Leyden, 
1767. 
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The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 
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. Taytor, Norwich, 1818. 
