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imet, called the * Imperial Brazilian Museum.” The proof number 
received is executed in a superior style, and consists of one sheet 
folio, and a single plate with colored engravings, contained in a loose 
envelope. It describes two beautiful species of Humming-bird. 
For the benefit of American naturalists and amateurs, we extract 
the following from the notice contained upon the envelope. 
The Editor, Dr. Scurersers, assisted by the collectors, discov= 
erers and curators, of the Imperial Brazilian Museum, proposes to 
publish the undescribed zoological objects collected in Brazil, in un- 
bound numbers, of the form and manner of execution of the proof 
number issued ; the descriptions to be according to the nature of the 
objects, in German and Latin, and illustrated by colored and uncol- 
ored engravings and lithographs. 
In order to diminish the expense to the cultivators of particular 
departments of zoology, the numbers which contain the objects of 
each principal division of the animal kingdom, (Mammalia, Aves, Am- 
phibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes, after the system of Linnaeus) will 
be sold by themselves ; and if they amount to a sufficient number to 
constitute a moderate sized volume, they will be bound up as an in- 
dependent work, and furnished with an appropriate title page. 
For the purpose of securing the greater precision and uniformity 
in the execution of the whole work, the editor has been induced to 
undertake, and to conduct upon his own responsibility, the edition, 
both the printing and the engravings ; but in consequence of the ex- 
pense of the enterprise, he finds himself compelled to demand it of 
the publishers, both domestic and foreign, that they interest them- 
selves in the undertaking ; and from them he waits for orders. 
The whole impression of each particular number, confined to one 
hundred and fifty copies, shall, as it is printed, be delivered to the 
book-trade, who may engage in it, for the amount of expenses incur- 
red by the publisher, which will not amount to more than one hun- 
dred and twenty, or one hundred and fifty, at the highest, to two hun- 
dred florins, (C. M. Augsb. Curst.) provided each number shall 
contain only one or two sheets of text, and the same number of 
plates : the book-trade affixing their own Price to the same, and in- 
curring the risk of the sale. 
The rapidity with which the’ numbers will appear, must depend 
upon the patronage of the book-trade. The materials now on hand 
will allow of the publication of oné or two numbers in each depart- 
ment of Zoology, the present year—Vienna, Sept. 1832. [C.U.S. 
