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shells, these I made out for an Encyclopedia publishing here Ov 



fo which I have undertaken the department of Natural History 



since these \vere published I have found several new species 



(It is a small pamphlet & will be sent by the same mail with 



this letter) 



Mr. Le Seueur, the celebrated friend of Peron, a French 

 naturalist no doubt well known by character to you, is about 

 to publish an elegant work on the American Fish, he does 

 every thing himself, draws, engraves, prints & colours, so that 

 it will be got out with the least possible expense, he has already 

 engraved eight plates for it ; he intends to have it of the same 

 size as mine 3 - -Prof . Barton, nephew of the late Prof. B. S. 

 Barton intends to publish' a work on the plants of North 

 America with coloured plates, 



"A general System of Nature through the three grand king- 

 doms of Animals, vegetables & minerals" &c "translated from 

 Gmelin's last Edition of the celebrated Systema Naturae by Sir 

 Charles L/inne amended & enlarged by the improvements & 

 discoveries of later naturalists & societies with appropriate 

 Copperplates by William Turton, M.D." it is in Six volumes 

 octavo & the last set which has been rec c .' from England was 

 imported by a friend of mine for his own use, it cost him five 

 Dollars each volume it is a work of little repute in England, & 

 rarely quoted by Entomologists The ' ' Transactions of L/in- 

 naean Society of London ' ' are now in Eleven volumes One 

 volume is published each year & costs about one hundred dol- 

 lars for the whole Eleven volumes 



I would thank you to let me know of any European Works 

 in which an}- of our American Insects are described I am de- 

 termined to get them all if possible for I cannot well do with- 

 out them. I would be liable to describe as new, Insects well 

 known & and long since described in Europe 



With the highest respect 



I remain your most Obdt Servt 



Thomas Say 



;t This intended work does not seem to have been published, as it is 

 omitted from bibliography W. J. F. 



