The author has offered a Systematic Classifiation of the principal contents of the books: The Animal Kingdom which demands our special attention and is in the highest degree calculated to gratify a laudable curiosity, as well as to reward the labours of the most diligent research. the subject, indeed, presents a wide field for the employment of the mental faculties. No part of the book can be viewed as unimportant or uninteresting. A Dictionary of Animated Nature is printed in alphabetical order so that the name of any animal being previously known, its zoological character and its habits can instantly be ascertained; while these persons who wish to study this branch of Natural History according to the most approved modern system will only have to refer to the book
