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only 36 plates with six sheets of explanatory text. The names 
there introduced were duly recorded in the Index. A few 
days ago Sherborn secured a fine copy which contained 
54 plates and 9 sheets of text. These sheets are bound in 
position each with six plates succeeding, so that the work 
was apparently issued in parts, each part with 1 sheet and 
6 plates ; and thus now we have evidence of the first nine 
parts, the tenth being yet unknown to us in the original 
state. From internal evidence we conclude the parts were 
issued at about the following dates :—pt. 1 . 1776 ; pt. 11 . 
1776; pt. ill. 1777 ; pt. iv. 1777 or 1778; pt. v. 1779 or 
1780 ; pt. vi. 1782 ; pt. vn. 1782 ; pt. vm. 1783; pt. ix. 
1784, and pt. x. 1785. 
That it was issued in parts seems certain from Latham’s 
quotations, as instance : in the first volume of the f General 
Synopsis of Birds ’ in the synonymy of the Secretary Vulture 
(p. 20) Latham cited “ Falco serpentarius J. F. Miller t. 28.” 
As Latham’s preface is dated Jan. 1, 1781, Miller’s plate 
apparently appeared prior to that date. At the end of vol.ii. 
Latham includes “ A Catalogue of the Principal Authors,” 
and there gives :— 
u Miller lUustr. 1 By this is meant Miscellaneous 
J. F. Miller , Mi sc. Plates J Plates of Quadrupeds , Birds , &c. 
coloured, in folio. By John 
Frederick Miller .” 
Latham’s book was published in 1785, and he only cites 
the first thirty-six plates, which suggests the only copy he 
referred to was the one in the Banksian Library. 
In the Nat. Miscellany, under pi. 533, Shaw wrote :— 
“ The figure here given is copied from the beautiful repre¬ 
sentation published by Mr. Millar (sic) in his splendid plates 
of natural history ” ; and he quoted as well as “ Cimelia 
Physica, p. 96, t. 52,” “ Millar (sic) Illustr. nat. hist, pi 52,” 
which we regard as confirmation of independent publication. 
As the 4 Cimelia Physica ’ is an easily accessible work 
the details hereafter given are compared with that book. 
The date of this is 1796, and the title-page states ; 
