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and for this reason we shall again advert to them in restating the intention 

 the author has in view. The Naturalist's Repository, or Monthly 

 Miscellany of Exotic Natural History, is designed to comprehend 

 in the most commodious form, a miscellaneous assemblage of elegantly 

 coloured plates, with appropriate scientific and general descriptions of the 

 most curious, scarce, and beautiful productions of nature that have been 

 recently discovered in various parts of the world or may hereafter occur to 

 the notice of the author ; and more especially of such novelties as from 

 their extreme rarity remain entirely undescribed, or which have not been 

 duly noticed by any preceding Naturalist. 



Most readers, it is presumed, will be aware that the labours of the 

 author s life, during a course of many years have been directed to the pur- 

 suits of natural science : labours not confined to any one particular branch 

 or department of the varied face of nature, but extending generally to the 

 whole. The endeavours of the author to elucidate the Natural History of 

 the British Isles are sufiSciently known from the various extensive works 

 which have been produced by him during the course of the last thirty years, 

 and the magnitude which those works have at length acquired in the 

 progressive course of publication that had been adopted, is the best 

 criterion of the approbation that has attended them. But it is not within 

 the views of the author in this place to expatiate upon a subject which 

 might be deemed irrelevant, the works alluded to being devoted solely to 

 the productions of our native country, while the avowed object of the 

 present undertaking is to comprehend a selection of those only which are 

 peculiar to foreign, and with few exceptions, to extra European climates. 

 The chief motive of the author in adverting to those works, is to point 

 out a style and mode of execution for the present undertaking, which, 

 from the very extensive patronage those former labours of the author 

 have experienced, may be considered applicable in a very peculiar degree 

 to every purpose of correct elucidation, and as one most likely to ensure 

 by its elegance and perfection that same proportion of general approba- 

 tion which the other productions of the author have obtained. 



With respect to the means within the author's power of rendering 

 this work deserving of the public notice, either as to the novelty, variety, 

 rarity, or beauty of the various objects it is destined to embrace, the 

 author must rather trust to the favourable opinion which the world may 

 entertain in its behalf, from the examples now submitted to consideration. 



