CON T E N T S. 



1. Brevity of Life 1. Reproduction 13. Animals improve 31. Life 

 and Death alternate 37. Adonis emblem of Mortal Life 45. 

 II. Solitary reproduction 61. Buds, Bulbs, Polypus 65. Truffle; 

 Buds of trees how generated 71. Volvox, Polypus, Tamia, 

 Oysters, Corals, are without Sex 83. Storge goddess of Parental 

 Love; First chain of Society 92. III. Female sex produced 103. 

 Tulip bulbs, Aphis 125. Eve from Adam's rib 135. IV. Hereditary 

 diseases 159. Grafted trees, bulbous roots degenerate 167. Gout, 

 Mania, Scrofula, Consumption 177. Time and Nature 185. 

 V. Urania and the Muse lament 205. Cupid and Psyche, the 

 deities of sexual love 221. Speech of Hymen 239- Second chain 

 of Society 250. Young Desire 251. Love and Beauty save the 

 world 257- Vegetable sexes, Anthers and Stigmas salute 263. 

 Vegetable sexual generation 271. Anthers of Vallisneria float to 

 the Stigmas 279- Ant, Lampyris, Glow- Worm, Snail 287. Silk- 

 Worm 293. VI. Demon of Jealousy 307. Cocks, Quails, Stags, 

 Boars 313. Knights of Romance 327. Helen and Paris 333. 

 Connubial love 341. Married Birds, nests of the Linnet and 

 Nightingale 343. Lions, Tigers, Bulls, Horses 357. Triumphal 

 car of Cupid 36 1. Fish, Birds, Insects 371. Vegetables 389- 

 March of Hymen 411. His lamp 419. VII. Urania's advice to 

 her Nymphs 425. Dines with the Muse on forbidden Fruit 435. 

 Angels visit Abraham 447 458. 



