
          16—10 fig. in a plate—61 plain to be finished
in 6 [?] with short letterpress—an excellent work
on Zoology has been commenced in London
by Swainson who travelled in the Brazils. 1
vol. is finished & does him proud honor. he
is also publishing Exotic couchology in
4to with beautiful Plates. One of the most
splendid works ever published in this Country
were finished this year. "A monograph of the
ferns Dyitalis by Lindley" folio with a noble
colored plate for each species. He also began
Collectanea botanica in folio nos: monthly
(colored plates). it stopped at the 6th no. from
the [?] of a sufficient sale—D. Horsefried
has began a 4th work with figures of the
animals of [Java?]. You have no doubt
seen by this time the last part of the
Linnian transactions. The [8?] plates of
the Genus Rafflesia cost L900 a tolerable
proof of the riches of the Society. [?] have
in Edinburgh now going on the first & colored
work on Nat. Hist. yet attempted here— it is a 
very large work on British Orinthology (Elephant 
or Alas fol.) by W. Selby a man of some
        