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80 plates which agree in many cases with the ones just criticized, 

 but are generally poorer paintings. They, however, are on Martyn's 

 paper with the plate numbers in agreement. That it should cover 

 80 plates is suggestive, as they are not in order and are not all lettered. 

 The suggestion is that the rejects were collected and sold in lots of 

 80 (maybe two forties), as in the regular published series. There 

 are, however, no comments whatever written on this series, and the 

 volume is only noteworthy in that it contains several of the 

 unpublished plates, and the paintings are often very different from 

 the published ones. All the paintings, however, are exquisite, and 

 worthy of preservation as artistic objects, though no scientific or 

 systematic value can be accredited to them. 



The first copy, however, with the pencilled notes, probably by 

 George Humphrey, is of great sentimental value, and may yet prove 

 useful in elucidating some unexpected problem. 



