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LXXIX. An Account of a Work, intituled, 
Jacobi ChriFiani Schaeffer icones et de- 
fcriptio Fungorum quorundam fingula- 
rium et memorabilium ; fimul Fungorum 
Bavarian icones nativis coloribus expreflas 
editioni, jam paratae, propediem evul- 
gandae, denunciantur ; by Mr . William 
Hudfon, F. R. 
Read M Th25 ,r-p HIS treatife confifts of fixteen 
£ P a ges, and is divided into two 
parts ; the firft contains the figures and defcriptions of 
home fingular and remarkable Fungi ; the fecond con- 
tains propofals for publifhing the figures of all the Fungi 
growing in Bavaria, coloured after nature. The title 
page farther fets forth, that the materials for this work 
are already provided, and that it is carried on under 
the dire&ion, and at the expence, of the Electoral 
Academy at Munich in Bavaria. 
The author begins, by faying, that as it fell to his 
lot, to inform the public, that the edition of this 
moft ufeful work, which was promifed laft year, was 
actually begun ; but he could not prevail on himfelf 
to conform to the plain method commonly ufed on 
thefe occafions; thinking it would be more acceptable 
to the public, if he prefixed fomething of a new and 
fingular nature to the propofals ; to which purpofe, 
nothing could be better adapted, as it feemed to him, 
than coloured figures, and defcriptions of fome re- 
markable Pungi, which had lately fallen in bis way. 
Vol. LII. Sff ' Thefe 
