ADVERTISEMENT 
FROM THE PUBLISHER. 
We have much satisfaction in fulfilling the assur- 
ance, given in our last advertisement, that many 
volumes were in an advanced state of progress, and 
would follow each other in as rapid succession as 
attention to the execution of the various depart- 
ments would allow; and we have now the pleasure 
to present to our friends and the Public the first 
portion of the Narurat History or THE Doc, 
written by Coronet C. Haminton Smiru, a well- 
known and talented Zoologist, and one whom we 
may in future hope to rank as an able coadjutor in 
our work. This part contains the description of 
the principal wild races, allied to, and from which 
it is supposed most of our domestic breeds of 
Dogs have sprung; while the second part, com- 
pleting their history, and illustrating all those ani- 
mals which have been cultivated from them for the 
use or amusement of man, is so far advanced, that 
