viii SOME ACCOUNT, &c. 
fpeCted its publication. I imagined it needlefs to 
add Synonyms , which would have fwelled the book ; 
efpecially as they may eafily be found in the tenth 
edition of my Syftem of Nature, in which I have 
introduced thefe names. 
There is an incredible number of curiofities 
from the three kingdoms of Nature in the Collec- 
tion of our late Author, which have been incor- 
porated with the cabinets of their Majefties, and are 
already defcribed, and may foon be publifhed with 
other wonderful productions of Nature*. 
Her Majefty has been plealed to give me a 
fpecimen of every plant, in which there were above 
two, thefe I have defcribed in another Treatife, un- 
der the title of Flora Palajlina ; and therefore think 
it needlefs to enumerate them here, as I would not 
infert any thing, which did not come from the 
Author’s pen. I fhall think myfelf happy, if I 
have fulfilled her Majefty’s command, and anfwer- 
ecl the expectations of the Public. 
* Thefe have been fince publifhed in Octavo, under the’ 
title of Mufteum .Regin®. 
