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PREFACE. 
it both his duty and his pride thus. to acknow- 
ledge the constant and free access he has had 
to the valuable and well-furnished Library of 
his late regretted friend Thomas Vaux, Esq. 
of Bedford. — Upon the whole the author 
submits his work to the public with unfeigned 
respect and diffidence ; and he hopes the 
Linnaean Society, of which he has the honor to 
be a member, will excuse the mode in which it 
now appears, in consideration of the motives, 
which induce him to consult as a leading object 
the convenience and accommodation of that 
Class of his Readers, who though comparative- 
ly and in the common acceptation of the term 
unlearned, may not and ought not on than ac- 
count to be regarded as un-initiated, or as un- 
enlightened. 
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