Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes ~ Virgil. “Let us improve life through science and art,” said the immortal poet Virgil. Our Tyger Scribes have taken this quite literally in their recent art auction, Tyger Scribes in Trying Times, to supply masks to medical professionals. Nobel Nat. MDCCCXXXIII Ob. MDCCCXCVI" and engraved along the lower left edge "E. Lindberg 1902", the reverse with an allegorical vignette of Genius of Science unveiling Nature in the form of a goddess bearing a cornucopia, with legend "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes" in relief above, and with a plaque in the exergue engraved "M Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes. Let us improve life through science and art . Ever since I was a young boy growing up in a relatively poor faming community in rural Japan, I have been utterly fascinated and enchanted by Nature. soUvAgt.