It is possible to make natural history entertaining and attrac- 
tive as well as instructive, with no loss in scientific precision, 
but with great gain in stimulating, strengthening, and confirm- 
ing the wholesome influence which the study of the natural 
sciences may exert upon the higher grades of mental culture ; 
nor is it a matter of little moment so to shape the knowledge 
which results from the naturalist's labors that its increase may 
be susceptible of the widest possible diffusion. 
—ELtiotr Cougs. 
