PAPYROGRAPHI 
AND ITS 
APPLICABILITY TO THE ILLUSTRATION 
OF 
ORNITHOLOGY. 
Resident in the country, and at a distance from any large town 
where engraving or lithography were practised, we have for a long 
series of years felt the want of some mode by which we could trans- 
fer to paper the work of our own pencil. Engraving requires a 
large apparatus for its use, lithography still larger, and no person 
but one who has had occasion to illustrate various departments of 
natural history, can have felt the delay and expense, or the diffi- 
culty to obtain fidelity and character, which attends engraving 
upon either metals, stone, or wood. It is therefore a great satis- 
faction to state, that a mode has been discovered, that will produce 
true representations of a sketch or drawing, and which, with a little 
farther experience and practice, will, we have no doubt, supply this 
most essential want, and permit a person, far from conveniences, 
to obtain faithful impressions of what he has himself drawn. It 
will be one object of these “ Contributions,” to employ the various 
styles of art at command for their Illustration, and to give every 
information that can promote Ornithology, either practically or 
scientifically ; and it is therefore with much pleasure that we now 
print an account of the process of Papyrograpliy, which, at our 
request, has been written out by Hugh E. Strickland, Esq., its 
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