APPENDIX. 
The Non-defcript Animals of New South Wales occupied 
a great deal of Mr. White's attention, and he preferved 
feveral fpecimens of them in fpirits, which arrived in 
England in a very perfedl ftate. There was no perfon to 
whom thefe could be given with fo much propriety as 
Mr. Hunter, he, perhaps, being moft capable of exa- 
mining accurately their fl:ru6lure, and making out their 
place in the fcale of animals ; and it is to him that we 
are indebted for the following obfervations upon them ; 
in which the anatomical ftrudlure is purpofely avoided, as 
being little calculated for the generality of readers of a work 
of this kind. 
It is much to be wifbed that thofe gentlemen who 
are defirous of obliging their friends, and promoting 
the ftudy of Natural Hiftory, by fending home fpeci- 
mens, would endeavour to procure all the information 
they can relating to fuch fpecimens as they may colled, 
more efpecially animals. The fubjeds themfelves may be 
vail- able, and may partly explain their connexion with 
thoie related to t hem, fo as, in fome meafure, to eftablifh 
their place in nature, but they cannot do it entirely ; they 
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