herbariums

Updated: June 3, 2025

That same science which fills our cabinets and herbariums, and chambers of natural history, with mute stones and shells and plants and dead birds and insects that same science that fills our scientific volumes with coloured pictures true as life itself, and letter-press of prose description that same science that anatomises the physical frame with microscopic nicety, in the hand of its master, found in the soul, that which had most need of science; and his 'illustrated book' of it, the book of his experiments in it, comes to us filled with his yet living, 'ever living' subjects, and resounding with the tragedy of their complainings.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded