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To many of my countrymen my beft thanks are due for 
hterary affiftances. Sir JosrpH Banks, Baronet, will, I hope, 
accept my thanks for the free admittance to thofe parts of his 
cabinet which more immediately related to the fubje& of the 
following fheets. 
To Sir Asuton Lever, Knight, I am highly indebted, for 
the. more intimate and clofer examination of his treafures than 
was allowed to the common vifitors of his moft magnificent. 
mufeum. 
To Mr. Samuet Heary, the great explorer by land of the 
Icy Sea, I cannot but fend my moft particular thanks, for his 
liberal communication of many zoological remarks, made by 
him on the bold and fatiguing adventure he undertook from 
Hudfon's Bay to the ne plus. ultra of the north on that fide. 
Mr. ANDREW GRAHAM, long a refident in Hud/on’s Bay, 
obliged me with numbers of obfervations on the country, and 
the ufe of multitudes of {pecimens of animals tranfmitted by 
him. to the late mufeum of the Royal Society, at the inftance 
of that liberal patron of fcience, my refpected friend the Ho- 
norable Daines BARRINGTON. 
Let me clofe the lift with acknowleging the great affiftance 
T have found in the Synopfis of Birds by Mr. Joun LATHAM; 
a work now brought almoft to a conclufion, and which contains 
a far greater number of defcriptions than any which has gone 
before. This is owing not only to the affiduity of the Au- 
thor, but alfo to. the peculiar fpirit of the Englij/h nation, 
which has, in its voyages to the moft remote and moft oppofite 
parts of the globe, payed attention to every branch of fcience.. 
The advantages are pointed out by the able pen of the Reverend 
Doctor Dovctas, in his Introduétion to the laft Voyage of 
our 
