INDEX. 



1 HE difficulty of pronouncing correctly many of the names 

 in systematical natural history by those who are not readily 

 acquainted with the languages from which they are generally 

 derived, has induced us to accent those which have more than 

 two syllables, and divide such as appear to be most liable to 

 mistakes of this nature : as in the words i-dn-thi~na 9 which has 

 properly four syllables, and ba-la-no-i-des, which has five, it is 

 common to pronounce the former jan-thi-na, as if it had only 

 three syllables, and the latter la-La-noi-des } as if it had only 

 four. The synonyms are in italics. 



