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I come now to the fecond part, which contains the 
propofals, and with the greater pleafure, as, at the 
lame time that it affords no opportunity for criticifm, it 
gives us hopes of feeing a very ufeful work, on one of 
the moft obfcure parts of botany. 
The author obferves, that the Electoral Academy 
at Munich, from its firft institution, determined to 
turn their thoughts particularly to this part of natural 
hiftory, which, hitherto, has been but indifferently 
cultivated ; and, in confequenee of this determination, 
the prefent method propofed to them was approved of. 
He adds, that the year before iaff, viz. 1760, though 
the drought was very great, they not only had an ac- 
ceflion of above an hundred Fungi, but that plates of 
them were entirely finifhed, both as to engraving and 
colouring, and fit to be publifhed. The circumffances 
and method of proceeding in this work, are as follow, 
and will, as the author allures the public, be ftri&ly 
and religioufly obferved. 
§ j. They will begin by publifhmg the different 
fpecies of Fungi, engraved and coloured according to 
the fpecimen in thefe propofals; with which the pub- 
lic will have reafon to be fatisfied. While thefe are 
publifhing, they will be looking out after other fungi, 
that may grow in Bavaria... 
§ 2. Thefe plates, when completed, will make a 
feparate volume, intituled, Jacobi Chriftiani Schaeffer 
Fungorum Bavaria, potijjimum qui circa Ratijlmam 
nafcuntur , icones y aufpiciis et impenfis Academia Eleffo- 
ralis Bavaria Monacerjis accurate delhieata, ct pubhci 
juris Jaffa. This volume may be ufeful, without the 
other volumes, of which hereafter. 
