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to ‘the same artist, ‚who has drawn on stone most of the u of my 
former works. 
I herewith open a subscription for this lat in ten volumes, 
quarto, in cloth binding, at £2. 10s. each volume, payable on delivery. 
The Smithsonian Institution, with its usual liberality, has ‘offered to 
take charge of the distribution of the successive volumes to subscribers 
in Europe, who may transmit their subscriptions to H. BamLiere in 
London, Hecror Bossanse in Paris, WESTERMAnN in Leipzig, or to the 
Author in Cambridge, Mass., U. S., or to the Publishers in Boston, 
United States, either directly, or through the Agents of the Smithsonian 
Institution. It should, however, be’ remembered, that, as, owing 
to the great expenses incurred in this publication, but few copies 
can. be printed beyond the number of actual subseribers, an ee 
application’is necessary to secure the work. um 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., U. S., May 28, 1855. FR 
L. AGASSIZ. 
