"Oranes res create sunt divinse sapientise et potentiae testes, divitiaj felicitatis 

 bnniaiuu: — ex haruin usu bonitas Creatoris; ex pulclu-itudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oecononiia, in conservatione, proportione, renovations, potentia niajestatis 

 elucet. Earuin itaque indagutio ab honiinibus sibi relictis semper aestinmta ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibiis semper excnlta; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 ininiica fuit." — LiNNiEus. 



*• Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

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

 tent toutes ses operations." — Bkucknek, Theorie dti St/steme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



Tlie sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands 



And odorous branches at our feet; the Nymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple lieath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round ten 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 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 bui'ning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us imlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, Norwich, 1818. 



