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OFKEWGEXERA AM) SPECIES OF ANIMALS, PLANTS, &C 

 DISCOVERED IX NORTH AMERICA: 



BY C. S. RAFIA'ESqUE, 



ssor of Botany and Natural History in Transylvania University, at Lexington 

 i i Kentucky, and member of several Learned Societies in the 

 i i,i '• : States mil in Europe, Sic, 



EKF.ni'KlN I JIF0I.DS A\n IXCHEA8ES KNOWLEDGE. 



First .\\nuu\\ Number, for 18&0. 



DEDICATED TO DR. W. E. LEJiCU, 



OF THE II1UT1SH MUSEUM, LONDON'. 



EVER since 1S16, I hai issued proposils for publishing a Periodical Work un« 

 der the title of At i i of JVh.'i various circumstances have prevented me from 

 carrying' the originalplan into execution, and have now induced me to publish it 

 anntiall} or casually (instead of quarterly) in the present form, without confining 

 myself to any particular time, nor extent ; but giving a preference to my own 

 unpublished discoveries and those of m\ Friends, over those of other Naturalist-s 

 and Botanists. Every number shall form a peculiar tract, which shall be sold sepa- 

 Titc. 



The difficulty of ascertaining sometimes whether my discoveries are totally 

 new, wil| not prevent me from offering those which I consider such. If a few 

 shal\ afterwards prove otherwise, the blame, if any, must lay with those European 

 compilers, who give us now and then their bulky, costly & learned Cyclopedias, 



onaries of Natural History, and Systems, without following the wise unnean 

 plan of detailing all the t erics. This is particularly the case with 



Zoologists, who from the Urn lilation of Grnelin, published about 30 



years ago, have n ver thought of giving us a new and • description of all 



the animals discovered since ; noi I omplcte account of our o n\ inimalse- 



verbeen published In such a stale of the science, & considering the difficulty of 

 procuring many European works on th lent, evenby applying to their au- 



>, I shall not be prevented from publishing my new specu • it may 



happen thai one oui of fifty may be previously not ; ced in son ' cos' I)- and inacces- 

 sible, work. 1 shall however be ready, at all times, 1 wch, or other 

 unavoidable errors a 



I have often felt the m- id in a concise 



and linncan shape, my numen i, which ui ar, 



bdflg oAen unable to find a proper rehici . i have b n compelled to avail my. 

 self of magazines and epta 



When 1 nave sent memoin mdtrs ublication to the learned societies of 



i Ion, Pmris, New-York and PJiiladelphia, tliey are onl) puh |er many 



years delay, or rejected when they contradict th< ' 



ber. 1(1 propose publiahing my works in Euroj 



rs, because the author it not one of th 

 don or Edinburgh, Meantime l have lost by a shipwreck the labor ofaany wars, 

 and the description and figures of one .thousand new anjjpals and plants.' Every 



