12 Beautiful Butter/lies. 



class of living creatures called Insects, the study of 

 whose nature and habits is termed Entomology. The 

 great Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus, arranged all the 

 flying, walking, creeping, and swimming things known 

 in his time into six classes; these classes included 

 several orders ; the orders various genera; and the 

 genera distinct species ; more or less numerous as the 

 case might be. This was called the Linnsean system 

 of natural history. I need not explain to you the 

 principles on which it was based, nor tell you in what 

 respects it differs from the systems of the illustrious 

 Frenchman Cuvier and other naturalists. One of these 

 days I may perhaps do this, but at present it is scarcely 

 necessary to puzzle your brains about it. I want you 

 clearly to understand what a Butterfly is; to learn one 

 letter of the great alphabet of nature first, and it will 

 assist you in acquiring the rest. Now, what is a But- 

 terfly ? " An insect of the Lepidopterous order " 



Nay, you are going to tell me what it is called merely ; 

 undoubtedly it is all that, but it is also something 

 more — a wonderful manifestation of the wisdom and 

 the goodness of the Almighty Creator, as I am now 

 going to show you. 



