T HIS work will contain figures copied from 
nature ; of about two hundred exotic animals 
of the ciajfes Amphibia, and Pisces of Linnaeus ; 
now in my poffefiion ; with a defcription and hiftory 
of each : and will be comprifed in ten numbers. 
But as I have a profpeB of confiderable additions 
to this colleSlion , I purpofe, at J'ome future period , 
to pub If j a Second Part ; which will contain the 
remainder of fuch foreign animals as are known 
to us. 
The plates will be found ufeful in illuftrating 
fuch works of Natural Hiftory , Travels , and Voy¬ 
ages, as are deftitute of them: efpecially the above- 
mentioned part of the System a Nature. Lin- 
nas us refers for figures to more books than are 
perhaps in the library of any one p erf on. His plan 
indeed would not permit him to give them ; but he 
confejfes at the fame time , that they are the life of 
Natural Hiftory: and it mi ft be allowed\ that a 
figure gives us a more perfeSl idea of any fubjetl 
than the moft elaborate defcription. 
