x PREFACE. 



felf principally indebted to the ingenious 

 John Reinhold Forfter, who obligingly 

 prefented to him many of his manufcript 

 papers, previous to his departure on the 

 prefent expedition to the South Seas. He 

 nas alfo the pleasure to mention his obli- 

 gation to the celebrated Linnaeus, and 

 other correfpondents, who have favored 

 him with their obfervations on different 

 fubjefts of natural hiftory. 



Several treatifes however have been 

 written on the plan of the firft part ; fome 

 years fince, M. Turgot publifhed his 

 *' Memoire inftruftif fur la Maniere de 

 raffembler, de preparer, de conferver, et 

 envoyer les diverfes Curiofites d'Hiftoire 

 Naturelle, Lyons, 1751. 8'vo." with fi- 

 gures ; but the direftions it contains are 

 prolix, and in many refpefts injudicious ; 

 fo ignorant is the author of a proper me- 

 thod of preferring infefts, that he direfts 

 the collector to place them betwixt leaves 

 of paper (pag. 88.) fimilar to the recom- 

 mendation of Petiver. 



In the " Amoenitates Academicae," pub- 

 lifhed in 1753. under the fanction of the 

 great Linnaeus, Dr. Hultman gives his 

 Inftruftio Mufei Rerum Naturalium in a 

 very intelligent manner, though in a lan- 

 guage which renders this ingenious pro- 

 duction of lefs general utility. 



My 



