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our author, and finally in the Species Planlamm. 

 As yet, however, although it had paffed through 

 nine editions, little more had appeared in the ani- 

 mal kingdom than the generical chara6lers, with 

 a fingle fpecific name infomuch that the ninth 

 edition at Leyden^ in 1756, was contained in a 

 fmall odavo of 226 pages. This it muft be ob- 

 ferved notwithftanding, was only a republication 

 of the author's fixth edition in 1748. The fcheme 

 therefore cannot be confidered as perfedled by the 

 author, until the publication of the loth edition, 

 in 1758, the firft part of which, relating to the 

 animal kingdom, makes a volume of 821 pages-, 

 and the fame part, in the 12th and laft edition, 

 is augmented by the addition of new fubje6ts to 

 1327 pages. This work therefore, publifhed in 

 two volumes at Stockholm^ in 1766 and 1767, is to 

 be confidered as having received the author's 

 finifliing hand, as far as poflible, fince he pro- 

 fefles to defcribe only fuch animals as had fallen 

 under his own infpedlion, except in fome inftances, 

 wher;^ his dependence upon other authority ren- 

 der^^d it juftifiable. The title of this enlarged 

 edition runs thus : 



1 Systema Nature per regna tria Nature fecun- 

 dum claJJ'es^ ordines^ genera et fpecies^ cum charac^ 

 teribus^ differ entiis J fynonytniSy locis, Holm. 1766, 1. 

 1767,11. 1768, III. 



TOM. I. fhe Animal Kingdom. 



In this volume, after a philofophical hiftory of 

 the animal kingdom in general, our author pro^ 

 ceeds to the eftablifliment of the claflical cha- 



radlers s 



