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or referred to, from almoft every author on the 

 fubjedt, and almoft every animal is moreover com- 

 pendioully defcribed. Infers make a very confi- 

 derable part of this catalogue ; near 1 700 fpecies, 

 ail found in that kingdom, are enumerated, diftin- 

 guifhed, afjd methodized, in a manner entirely 

 new, and which has been adopted by nearly every 

 writer on the fubjed fince. We fhall fpeak more 

 fully of the ciaflification in the abftra6t intended 

 £0 be given of the Syftema Nature. A compendious 

 manual of Englijh Zoology on this plan, is a work 

 much wanted 5 though we think it could not fail 

 to enhance its value, if the tables of the genera 

 were prefixed to each clafs, and the charaders to 

 each genus, as in the Syft.em of our author. Two 

 plates, of fome of the rarer birds chiefly, accom- 

 pany this volume, on which are explained the 

 technical terms ufed in ornithology. The number 

 of each clafs of animals ftands thus : 



1. Mammalia - 59 



2. Aves - - - 195 



3. Amphibia - 25 



4. Pifces - 77 



5. Infeda - 1691 



6. Vermes - 198. 



An accident having thrown into the hands of 

 the profefTor an Herbarium^ confifting of five large 

 volumes of plants, he difcovered that it was the 

 colledion of the famous Dr. Paul Herman, which 

 had been made in the ifland of Zeylon, by that 

 gentleman, at the expence of the Butch Eaft India 

 Company. This Herhariim had been loft for up- 

 wards of half a century, until chance threw it 

 into the hands of M. Gunther^ apothecary to the 

 ]fAng of Denmark^ who fent it to Linn^us, re- 



D 4 quefting 



