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volume contains the animals, with the synonyms in eight hundred and 

 twenty-one pages ; the second contains the minerals in five hundred 

 and sixty pages; this edition is considerably augmented, the follo^v•ing 

 three are copied : 



The Twelfth Edition.— Halle, 1760, by J. J. Curt, in two volumes 

 o6tavo, with a preface of J. J. Lange. 



The Thirteenth Edition. — Leipsic,. 1^62, two volumes in o6lavo; a 

 mere speculation of a greedy bookseller, without additions, and abound- 

 ing with errors. Lin n .eu s reckoned this as the eleventh edition. 



The Fourteenth Edition. — Tomi ii. Pars. i. et iii. Pars. i. Hague, 1765 

 folio; as bad as the preceding, with ten very inaccurate plates on the 

 three first Classes of the System *. 



No. VIL 



The Fifteenth Edition. — (According to Linn/eus the Twelfth) — 

 The last which was published under his own care and inspeftion ; it 

 bears the following title : 



Systema Naturce per Regna tria Naturee, secundum classes, ordines, 

 genera et species, cum charafteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, 

 Holm, apud Salvium, 1766-68, three volumes in oftavo, the first of 

 which contains the Animal System, in one thousand three hundred and 

 twenty-seven pages ; the second the Botanical System, in seven hundred 

 and thirty-six pages, and the third the Minerals in two hundred and 

 thirty-six pages. The third volume was separately printed at Halle^ in 

 1770, with plates. 



* Anglice, Gallice et Belgice, vera fraus bibliopolarum— cum nominibus alienissimis et 

 tanta inscitia, quantara hoc nostro aevo nunquam exspeflassem. Haller, Bxbl. Bot. Tom. ii. 

 P- 552. 



T t a Sixteenth 



