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who have visited the West India islands ; there 

 are slill several unedited, which it would he in- 

 teresting to be acquainted with(i). 



2d. Tournefort's descriptions and designs of 

 several plants observed by him in different coun- 

 tries, and a part of his correspondence during 

 his travels in the Levant. 



3d. Commerson's relation of his voyage, one 

 volume folio ; and what is exceedingly valuable, 

 the original designs of objects deserving of notice 

 in the countries he visited. 



These drawings, to the number of five hundred 

 and thirty of zoological and six hundred and ten 

 of botanical subjects, are upon sheets of different 

 form according to the dimensions of the objects 

 represented ; as far as possible, they are of the 

 natural size and are accompanied with details of 

 the characteristic distinctions ; their arrangement 

 is in the order of the natural families. 



The descriptions of animals have not been 

 bound together on account of the difference of 

 size ; they fill a separate portfolio of about five 

 hundred pages. 



M. de Lacepede in his History of fishes and 



(i) At the foundation of the library, Government had decided that 

 Plumier's works should be removed thither from the Royal library ; 

 a part only have been sent, and it is greatly to be desired that this 

 precious collection should be united and placed in the Museum. 



