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therefore be engraven, which will suffice to give 
proper ideas of the rest ; especially as short 
descriptions of the whole are given. 
8. Amphibious animals, as turtles, serpents, 
&c. 
9. Fishes. 
10. Insects ; including flies, worms, and micro- 
scopic animalcules : preceded by a dissertation on 
the transformations of insects. — Caterpillars to be 
engraved where figures can be had. 
N.B. — These three classes to be treated of and 
illustrated as already mentioned in respect to 
birds. 
III. OF VEGETABLES IN GENERAL. 
1. Classification of vegetables — Explanation of 
the Linnasan system, with the necessary plates, 
by way of example of a genus from each class, 
and a species or more of each genus, &c. 
N.B. — The engravings to be executed accord- 
ing to a scale, which will be attended with many 
obvious advantages. 
Not discouraged by this failure he next 
ventured on a translation of Buffo ri’s Natural 
History of the Earth, and of Man and Quadru- 
peds, which he completed in nine volumes 8vo. 
with numerous notes and illustrations, and a 
considerable number of new observations. This 
introduced him to the correspondence of Buffon 
and Pennant, the former of whom acknowledged 
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