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Doctor For- 
SsTER’s AMERI- 
can Cata- 
LOGUE. 
OF 9M YS ILA RER AR Y* MTB 2 
“Tt would be a worfe refle€tion upon us, than any that has 
“ fallen from the moft envenomed pen, if the writer of that 
“account did not meet with the moft grateful acknowlege- 
“ment.” 
In this year doétor For/ter publifhed a catalogue of the ani- 
mals of North America. 1 had begun the work, by a lift of the 
guadrupeds, birds and fifhes. Doctor For/fer added all the reft: 
and afterwards, in a new edition, favored the world with a moft 
comprehenfive Flora of that vaft country, with a catalogue 
of infects, and the directions for preferving natural curiofities. 
My part in this work is of fo little merit that it need not be 
boafted of. I only lay clame to my proper right. 
Ir was in this year that I laid before the Royal Society an ac- 
count of two new fpecies of Tortoifes. The one a frefh-water 
fpecies, known in North America by the name of the Soft-/helled 
Tortoife. Yt is attended by a very accurate hiftory of its man- 
ners, and two fine figures, communicated to me by the worthy 
doétor Garden, of Charleftown, South Caroline. My paper was 
publifhed in vol. Ixi. of the Tranfactions, attended by a plate. 
This is the Te/tudo ferox of Gmelin, Lin. ii. 1039. and Le Molle of 
La Cepede, i. 13. tab. vil. 
Tue other is a {mall and new fpecies, which I name the tu- 
berculated. Le Comte de la Cepede and Mr. Gmelin err in mak-~_ 
ing it the young of the Coriaceous Tortoife, Br. Zool. iit. N° J. 
Le Luthe of de la Cepede, i. 115. tab. ili. and J. Coriacea of 
Gmelin, 1036. B. I. tuberculata. 
Tuis year another little poetical piece was produced, by the 
accident 
