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[ well-known epigram: from Goethe's Venetianische Epigramme. The following is a translation of the passage: Why do the people push each other and shout? They want to work for their living, bring forth children; and feed them as well as they possibly can. . . . No man can attain to more, however much he may pretend to the contrary.]
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[ Maelstroms: a celebrated whirlpool or violent current in the Arctic Ocean, near the western coast of Norway, between the islands of Moskenaso and Mosken, formerly supposed to suck in and destroy everything that approached it at any time, but now known not to be dangerous except under certain conditions. Century Dictionary. Cf. also Poe's Descent into the Maelstrom.]
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[ Milne-Edwards (1800-1885): a French naturalist. His Elements de Zoologie won him a great reputation.]
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[ with such qualifications as arises: a typographical error.]
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[ De Bary (1831-1888): a German botanist noted especially for his researches in cryptogamic botany.]