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work some of the eminentest naturalists of Germany have 
promised their assistance. 
The Illustrations will be made in the truest and most 
beautiful manner, after living or the best natural stuffed 
Animals of the Museums of Berlin and Stutgart, the first 
in the way of photographic, or painted by the author 
himself, the latter by the excellent painters of animals, 
Messrs. SPECHT and MEYERHEIM, at Germany. 
The same is to be said about the Plants, for which the 
author himself wiil paint the Illustrations, chiefly those 
of Palms, Ferns and Orchids of this colony. 
The Work will be given out in series of six sheets 
text and six leaves of illustrations each one. 
Also will be published by the same author a small 
compendium of this work for the use of schools in this 
colony” 
