1 92 1.] J. F. Miller s Icones. 303 



only od plates with six sheets of explanatory text. The names 

 there introduced were duly recorded in the Index. A few 

 days ago Sherborn secured a fine copy which contained 

 54 plates and 9 sheets of text. These sheets are bound in 

 position each with six plates succeeding, so that the work 

 was apparently issued in parts^ each })art with 1 sheet and 

 () plates ; and thus now we have evidence of the first nine 

 parts, the tenth being yet unknown to us in the original 

 state. From internal evidence we conclude the parts were 

 issued at about the following dates : — pt. i. 177G ; pt. ii. 

 177G ; pt. in. 1777 ; pt. iv. 1777 or 1778; pt. v. 1779 or 

 1780 ; pt. VI. 1782 ; pt. vii. 1782 ; pt. viii. 178:'); pt. ix. 

 1784, and pt. x. 1785. 



That it was issued in parts seems certain from Latham's 

 quotations, as instance : in the first volume of the ' General 

 Synopsis of Birds ' in the synonymy of the Secretary Vulture 

 (p. 20) Latham cited '" Falco serpentarius J. F. Miller t. 28." 

 As Latham's preface is dated Jan. 1, 1781, Miller's ])late 

 apparently appeared prior to that date. At the end of vol.ii. 

 Latham includes " A Catalogue of the Principal Authors," 

 and there gives : — 



^'■Miller Lllustr. 1 By this is meant Miscellaneous 



J. F. Miller, Misc. Flates J Plates of Quadrupeds, Birds, &c. 



coloured, in folio. By Jolui 

 Frederick Miller.'' 



Latham's book was published in 1785, and he only cites 

 the first thirty-six plates, which suggests the only copy he 

 referred to was the one in the Banksian Library. 



In the Nat. Miscellany, under pi. 533, Shaw wrote : — 

 " The figure liei-e given is copied from the beautiful repre- 

 sentation published by Mr. Millar {sic) in his splendid plates 

 of natural history" ; and he (juoted as well as " Cimelia 

 Physica, p. 96, t. 52," " Millar (sic) lllustr. nat. hist, pi 52," 

 which we regard as confirmation of independent publication. 



As the ' Cimelia Physica ' is an easily accessible work 

 the details hereafter given are compared with that book. 

 The date of this is 1796, and the title-page states : 



