Martin Folkes, Efq^, 9 



Merit: tho' they make no Pretence to that 

 Clearncfs of Judgment and Expreffion which 

 are fo diftinguifhable in the Pattern you have 

 laid before me. 



All Defcriptions of the Forms of unknown 

 Things, or Things we are but imperfectly 

 acquainted with, prove unintelligible, or at 

 leaft unfatisfacftory, without the Help of 

 Piftures: I have, therefore, taken care to ex- 

 plain my Meaning all along by fuch Repre- 

 fentations as I thought might be neceilary to 

 fatisfy the Reader's Curiofity ; and this I have 

 done, more particularly, through the whole 

 Courfe of my Experiments: where I prefume 

 it will be found agreeable, to fee in what 

 Manner, and by what Progreffions, the Parts 

 of Polypes cut in Pieces proceed, gradually, 

 towards the Reprodudlion of all they want 

 to render them compleat and perfeft. 



The great Number of Figures requifite for 

 this Purpofe, would have occafion'd too large 

 an Expence, had they been engraven on 

 Copper 5 and after all, as they could not 

 then have been intermixed with the Letter- 

 Work, but muft have been printed on fe- 

 parate Leaves, would have produced a good 

 deal of Trouble in turning continually to 

 them: but by being cut in Wood, they lye 

 much more conveniently under the Eye in 

 the Places whereto they properly belong, and 

 though not fo beautiful as Copper-Plates, 

 yet (being done by the beft Hand we have) 



they 



