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PREFACE. 



indulgencies whilst inspecting that admirable collection. Other 

 obligations to that friend of science, Sir Joseph Banks, to Dr. James 

 Edward Smith, President of the Linnaean Society, W.H.Pepys, Esq., 

 and other gentlemen, will be acknowledged in the body of the 

 work. 



That the matter of the present volume will be found highty in- 

 teresting is confidently hoped; but when the vast variety of the 

 animal kingdom is considered, it is not too much to promise, that, 

 the subsequent parts of this work will far exceed, in this respect, 

 the present ; and may therefore yield to the admirers of Nature's , 

 works considerable gratification. 



