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volume of his works, appeared in 1764, which he de¬ 
dicated to EarlFERRERS, (then Captain Shirley) as 
an acknowledgment for his kind affiftance in contri¬ 
buting a great number of birds intended for Madam 
Pompadour, and taken by the Captain in a French 
Prize. This part contains eighty five different fub- 
jedts, defigned, engraved, and coloured after nature, 
on fifty two plates. 
Thus our Author, after a long feries of years, the 
rnoft ftudious application, and the moft extenfive cor- 
refpondence to every quarter of the world, concluded 
a work which contains, engravings and defcriptions 
of more than fix hundred fubjedls in Natural Hiftory, 
not before defcribed or delineated. He like wife ad¬ 
ded a generical Index in French and Englifh, which is 
now perfectly compleated with the Unnrean names, 
by that great Naturalift LinN iE.us hitnfelf, who 
frequently honoured him with his friendfliip and cor- 
refpondence 
Upon 
* The following letter bears the ftrongeit teftimony of the high efleem 
the great Profelfor had for Mr. Edwards, as well as friendfhip for his 
own pupil the ingenious Dr. Solander : 
Viro nobiliflimo Domino G. Edward 0, Ornithologyfummo, 
f. p . d. Car. Linn^s us , Eques . 
(i Has tibi, vir nobiliffime, traditurus literas D. Dan. Solander* 
u meus totus eft; hie in animum induxit Angliam adire, ut in natune 
cognitions 
