IV ADVERTISEMENT. 



Mr. Paxton, of Oxford, several years ago, pub- 

 lished a valuable work illustrating the " Natural 

 Theology,^' to which the reader is referred for fur- 

 ther illustration on some of the subjects, particu- 

 larly those connected with anatomy. 



The authors of the present work have been in- 

 debted to Professor Lindley, of the London Uni- 

 versity, for the botanical notes to the twentieth 

 chapter ; and to Mr. Waterhouse, Curator of the 

 Zoological Museum of London, for the entomolo- 

 gical notes to the nineteenth chapter ; those which 

 were kindly communicated by Bishop Brinkley 

 are specified in chapters twenty-two and twenty- 

 five. 



The Dissertations connected with the last ten 

 chapters will form a fourth volume, which will 

 complete this work. 



The whole of the Notes, and nearly the whole 

 of the Dissertation, now published, to the first 

 seventeen chapters, were prepared for the press 

 several months ago, and the greater part of them 

 printed last summer. But the expediency of 

 making some additions to the Dissertations has 

 occasioned the publicatian to be delayed. 



