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C. wishes those of his friends who have devoted them- 

 selves to the study of natural history, to understand dis- 

 tinctly that the anatomical and chemical terms con- 

 tained in these essays, are employed, not in their 

 scientific but in their popular sense, and also that in 

 drawing the organs of the sal pa he has followed La- 

 marck and Cuvier, without committing himself by any 

 opinions upon the correctness of their generic descrip- 

 tions, as applicable to this particular species. 



