WALKING LEAF. 
vanced by a chara6ter so rmiable as Edwards 
seems to have been, or a naturalist so able as 
he certainly was : but such, we are persuaded, 
was his attachment to Truth and Nature, and 
Ills desire of seeing them traced to their last 
retreat by the readiest road ; that he would not, 
were he now living, be displeased to see thein 
successfully explored, though by a path, dif- 
ferent, in some particular instances, from w^hat 
he had himsplf pursued on the like occasions. 
This, we trust, may serve as a sufficient apo- 
logy for any difference of opinion we should 
at any time feel it necessary to express respect- 
ing the excellent remarks of this very skilful 
and penetrating observer, whose positive as^ 
sertions no man has ever been capable c£ 
retutinQ;. 
The idea of Edwards, respeCling the IboTj 
which seem wantuig, appears to us just; the 
inse6l, which is of tlie Cimex or Bun; kind, 
had certainly four, if jiot six legs. 'I'he per- 
fect legs, however, are the foie legs, and not 
the hinder ones; which, probably, was a mis- 
take of the printer. ^Ve have figured, of their 
natural size, both the upper and under sides of 
this 
