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PREFACE. 



credible store of natural treasures, and of curious 

 information had been acquired. It is a most gratify- 

 ing circumstance that all their collections, without a 

 single exception, have arrived safe, and in perfect 

 preservation at Munich, where His Majesty the King 

 of Bavaria has had them all scientifically arranged, 

 according to the several divisions of the animal, 

 vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, in a noble build- 

 ing fitted up expressly for their reception, under 

 the appropriate name of the Brazilian Museum, of 

 which the indefatigable travellers, to whom it owes 

 its existence, are most deservedly appointed con- 

 servators. 



With respect to the translation, I do not feel it 

 necessary to say more, than that it has been exe- 

 cuted with all the care that I could bestow upon 

 it, and that in the whole of the mineralogical part, 

 especially the notes, I have had the assistance of 

 one of the ablest mineralogists in the kingdom, to 

 whom, though I do not feel myself authorised to 

 mention his name in this place, I cannot refrain 

 from returning my acknowledgments for the ad- 

 ditional value which the work has derived from his 

 liberal assistance. 



. H. E. LLOYD. 



London, March 1824;. 



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