The impending dispersion of the Leverian Mu- 
scum, so disgracefully suffered to fall, through a want 
of public patronage, in a nation like that of Britain, 
calls for the unfeigned regret of all who are touched 
by the love of science, or arc alive to the charms of 
Nature. 
As a last tribute of acknowledgment to an institu¬ 
tion so noble and so unfortunate, I shall make no apo¬ 
logy for inserting (even uncorredted by minute atten¬ 
tion), the following effusion in its praise, which the 
reader will immediately perceive to be in the form of a 
Cento, and which it is, of course, impossible to 
translate. 
