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PREFACE. 
indulgencies, whilst inspecting that admirable collection. Other 
obligations to that friend of science, Sir Joseph Banks, to Dr. James 
Edward Smith, President of the Linnsean Society, W. H. Pepys, 
Esq. and other gentlemen, will be acknowledged in the body of 
the work. 
That the matter of the present volume will be found highly 
interesting is confidently hoped; but when the vast variety of the 
animal kingdom is considered, it is not too much to promise, that 
the subsequent parts of this work will far exceed, in this respect, 
the present; and may therefore yield to the admirers of Nature’s 
works considerable gratification. 
