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tifliftance lie ii'ioft gratefully acknowledges* The 
defcription was publiflied likewile in the French lan¬ 
guage, for the ule of foreigners, as is that of the 
fucceeding volumes. 
His fublcribers exceeding even his moil (anguine 
expectation, a lecond volume appeared in 1747, de- 
dicated to Sir Hans Sloane, then phyfician to his 
Majefty, whole merit as a naturalift is well known, 
both in our own and foreign nations, and whole 
friendship to our author imprinted indelibly on his 
breaft the warmed imprelfions of gratitude. This 
volume contains lixty one birds and two quadrupeds, 
engraved on fifty two copper plates, with descrip¬ 
tions. 
The third volume publiflied in 1750, contains the 
fame number of plates, and fifty nine birds, dedicat¬ 
ed to the prefident, council, and fellows of the Roy- 
Society. 
In 1751 the fourth volume came from the prels, 
containing thirty leven plates, on which are engra-* 
ved thirty nine birds, and fixteen plates of ferpents, 
fiflies, and inlefts. 
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