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not be inconvenient, specimens, as it may be in the power 

 of any of his readers to supply. Even the Vertebrate 

 Animals of our own country are far yet from being 

 thoroughly understood. Much confusion prevails in se- 

 veral groups, and, without doubt, many additional species 

 remain to be detected. The Shrews and Bats amongst 

 Quadrupeds ; the Cetaceous Animals ; the Wrasses, Gobies, 

 Blennies, the Salmon Tribe, the Sharks and Rays, amongst 

 Fish; these and other families might be pointed out, with 

 respect to which we want more information, and which 

 particularly invite the attention of the British Naturalist. 

 Should any one be disposed to honour him with specimens 

 in these or other instances, the author begs to state that 

 they will not be reserved for his own use exclusively, but 

 will, with the permission of the donor, be deposited in 

 the Museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, which 

 already possesses an extensive collection of British Animals, 

 and which the author is anxious to render as perfect as 

 possible in that department of the Fauna, to the advance- 

 ment of which the Work now offered to the Public is 

 directed. 



SWAFFHAM BULBECK, 



Oct. 24, 1835. 



