The Introduction to the Second Volume. 
accordingly they did. I found myfelf obliged to take im. 
mediate Care of all of them, and in the firft Place of thé | 
Animal Subftances, which are moft fubje& to Deftruétion; 
This was the more neceflary to be done with Attention, 
becaufe as he hath taken great Pains to give the Synonymous 
Names of Authors to fuch as were defcribed, fo there are 
many of them fuch as’were not taken Notice of by 
any Natural Hiftorian before him, and therefore his 
Samples were to afcertain what he meant by fuch fhort 
Names and defcriptive Titles, as are to be found in -his 
Pieces, either Anonymous or fuch as were publickly’ owned 
by him: Some few of them perhaps may be only Varie- 
ties of thofe Produ€tions mentioned by other Writers, 
and “not fpecifically different from what was defcribed 
by them, but this could not be fo certainly determined, 
without the very Originals from whence he took’ his Defcrip- 
tions and Figures. Ihave taken as much Care as I can to 
bring his Colleétions and Papers out of the Confufion 1 
found themriff, and will take farther Care, that what he hath 
gather’d together, by very great and undefatigable Induftry, 
fhall not be loft, but preferved and publifhed for the good 
of the Publick, doing right to his Memory, and my 
own Reputatior. : 
Upon thefe Confiderations, and mary more too tedious 
to recite, I hope the delay of the coming out of this, 
but very indifferent Book, will be pardon’d, and yet I think 
it more curious then the firft Volume; and that, becaufe 
there isan Account of the Animals, Oc. as alfo the Figures 
of the Fruit Trees of Peru and many Parts of the World 
hitherto unknown, and thefe drawn from the Life, in 
their gatural Bignefs, and alfo the Profpetts of them, 
wherein their manner of Growth, and tota facies is fhown at 
Diftanee ; thefe are, continuing the Nambers of the Tables 
after the Introduction to the firft Volume, and which im- 
mediately follow this. Tab. V. VI. VIE VII IX: X; 
and XI. 
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