436 FOEEST CONSEEVATOKEES. 



would such a place afford to a clergyman whose pastoral 

 cares had broken down his health, or to some enthusiast, 

 who would gladly renounce the world to pursue his favor- 

 ite science ! These conservatories would offer so many 

 frugal scholarships for the devotees of natural history, 

 who would maintain an interesting correspondence with 

 each other in all parts of the land, and whose observa- 

 tions would afford new acquisitions to science by which 

 the whole world might be benefited. 



