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PREFACE. 
the public, either embodied in the present work, or in a 
separate volume of oryctological communications. 
It is proper to remark that such only of the engravings 
of the present volume as are not coloured, have been 
taken from other works : and that all those which are 
coloured, have been copied, for this work, from the 
specimens themselves. 
