PREFACE. 
XI 
prise and genius are capable of achieving ; I allude, particularly, 
to the excellent botanical publications of doctors W. P. C. Barton 
and I. Bigelow, and the beautiful Entomology of Say ; and before 
this volume will have met the public eye, the splendid Ornithology 
of the Prince of Musignano, will have convinced our trans-atlantic 
sciolists of the indiscretion of dogmatically promulgating opinions 
on those branches of human knowledge, in the advancement of 
which they themselves are so notably deficient. 
Philadelphia, July 4, 1825. 
