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cal and general reader, be devoted to remarks illustrative of 
structural peculiarities; the valuable properties which pre- 
dominate, either in the individual figured, or in the Order to 
which it belongs; the methods adpoted for procuring these, 
and peculiar ities of culture, where such are required in their 
production. - 
* In extent, it is not expected to isese three hundred 
plates (but may possibly fall short of that number), to be 
published at ‘the rate of about one hundred annually, in 
numbers, commencing in January, 1838, or so soon as the 
names of one hundred subscribers are received; and contin- 
ued, either monthly or every alternate month, as may be 
found most generally convenient and economical, The esti- 
mated expense to subscribers will not exceed thirty rupees, per 
volume of one hundred plates; one half of which is the cost 
of colouring alone, the remainder being charged for the letter- 
press (which will be copious), lithography, paper, drawing, 
&c., and at this price it is nearly fifty per cent. under the 
English price of similar works. j 
* This low price is effected by charging little more Hh 
the actual outlay; it forming no part of my plan to reap per- 
sonal profit from a work, the conducting of which I look 
upon as part of my present official duties. In England, 
authors of such works contract with a publisher, possessed of 
the means of continuing the publication until the probability 
9f remuneration is ascertained ; and who, to remunerate him- 
self for the risk and sacrifice of capital at the outset, charges 
a profit of from 30 to 40 per cent. on the cost, while he 
enjoys every facility which former experience, and - the ad- 
vanced state'of the arts in Europe, give, to ensure the work - 
being got up in the best style and at the lowest charge. In 
Madras, the case is totally different: this is the first publi- 
cation of the kind ever attempted here; we are, therefore, 
without experience, have no practised publishers, no colour- 
ists; we find it even very difficult to procure colours, and 
must depend on the chance of the market for our supplies of — 
paper, in place of ordering it direct. from the Mani of what- : : 
