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drawn with curiosity and exactness by an excel- 
lent hand, — -the which, fowl, fishes, and insects, 
the said Baltner had himself taken and described 
at his own proper charges, and caused to be 
drawn. Secondly, at Nuremberg, in Germany, 
he bought a large volume of pictures of birds 
drawn in colors. Thirdly, he caused divers species, 
as well seen in England as beyond seas, to be 
drawn by good artists. Besides what he left, 
the deservedly famous Sir Thomas Brown, Pro- 
fessor of Physick in the city of Norwich, frankly 
communicated the draughts of several rare birds, 
with some brief notes and descriptions of them. 
Out of these, and the printed figures of Aldro- 
vandus and Pet. Olina, an Italian author, we 
called out those we thought most natural and 
resembling the life for the gravers to imitate, add- 
ing also all but one or two of Marggravius’s, and 
some out of Clasius his exotics, Piso his Natural 
History of the West Indies, and Bontius his of 
the East.” Then follows a statement of the 
reason why “ the sculps” were not so good as 
they might have been ; namely, the distance of 
the editor from the press.”* 
* The plates were engraved at the expense of Mr 
Willughby’s widow, and are better in the Latin edition 
than in the English, chiefly, however, in consequence of 
the superior nature of the ink used in the former edition. 
Both editions seem to have been made from the same 
plates. Still, even these, as contrasted with far less 
expensive representations of animals so abundant in the 
present day, shew the wonderful improvement made in 
