TO 
THE LINN^AN SOCIETY, 
THE FOLLOWING 
FRAGMENTS 
(WHICH ARE INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE, IN SOME DEGREE, 
THE 
NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
A COUNTRJ 
EXTREMELY INTERESTING TO PHILOSOPHERS, 
AND 
HITHERTO VERY IMPERFECTLY EXPLORED) 
ARE, WITH GREAT RESPECT, INSCRIBED BY 
THE society’s FRIEND AND BROTHER-MEMBER, 
benjamin smith barton. 
Philadelphia, ^ 
April i8th, 1799. j 
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