“The reasonings about the wonderful and intricate operations of nature are so full of uncertainty, that, as the Wise-man truly observes, _hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us_.” Stephen Hales, _Vegetable Staticks_ (1727), p. 318, 1738. This book of mine has little need of preface, for indeed it is “all preface” from beginning to end. I have written it as an easy introduction to the study of organic Form, by methods which are the common-places of physical science, which are by no means novel in their application to natural history, but which nevertheless naturalists are little accustomed to employ.…
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