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ful to fet down the Names, Sur-Names, Country, Time 
of their Birth, what Year they died in, under what Ma- 
ilers educated, where they fiouriflfd, and in what part of 
Anatomy they excelfd. 
Nor has he been lefs diligent in the Account he has gi- 
ven of the Books of Anatomy, which his Friends fupply’d 
him with in great Number. The Reader will fee here 
laid before him, ail the feveral Editions, in what Language, 
what Volume they were printed in, with the Place and 
date of the Year they were publifhed at ; and which are 
the firft Impreflions, and which copied from them. Nor 
has he judged it improper to give fome Account of the Fi- 
gures difpers’d up and down in Anatomical Books ;as whe- 
ther they were Originals or Copies, cut in Wood or Cop- 
per, &c. To thefe he has added three Indexes, whole 
Ufe will be feen by the Titles. As for the difference of 
Style remarkable in this Treatife, It is chiefly owing to 
the Variety of Authors made ufe of, he thinking himfelf 
not at Liberty to vary the Expreflion of them whofe Au- 
thority he quotes. 
He fays he would willingly have recounted the great 
Advantage Anatomy has received from the Eng/i/h Nation: 
but out of juft Regard to their Merits, he has refign’d this 
Province to his Friend Mr. William Becket, whofe Induftry 
in colletfting their Writings will notin his Opinion exceed 
his Talent and Abilities to recommend them to the World. 
He hopes the Reader will pardon him in this, that as 
feveral Books and Editions came late to his Hands, he was 
forc’d to add the omijfa feparately : which being in greater 
Number than at firft expedled, the Author earneftly de- 
fires the Favour of thofe who have in their Colle&ions any 
thing of this kind here omitted, that they would pleafe 
to communicate the fame, in order to render this firft Spe- 
cimen ftil.l more complete, 
F / N I S. 
