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,