The science of man in all ages and climes.
“Then comes a most useful pursuit, Arachnology;
They’re bipeds, the spiders who weave the worst webs;
But when one is asked to go in for Astrology,
And Zadkiel! one’s courage most rapidly ebbs.
“The next on our roster is old Archæology,
A science that’s lately been much in repute;
One can’t say as much for Electro-biology,
Which now-o’-days no one seems ever to bruit.
“But none can afford to make light of Chronology,