Such a lusus naturae as a woman without a heart and conscience would, in England, be a mere brutal savage, and poison half a village.

" Linnaeus was a naturalist in this wide sense, and his "Systema Naturae" was a work upon natural history, in the broadest acceptation of the term; in it, that great methodising spirit embodied all that was known in his time of the distinctive characters of minerals, animals, and plants.