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preface OF THE AUTHOR, ■■ '■ * i s ,i S v 'o>yiTr(^ii I In -verbs non simus faciles ut convemamus in re. BY the title of this small work the reader promised a Treatise on the External Cha racters of Fossils; I have, however, taken the liberty of rather exceeding its limits, ex pressing at the same time my ideas on the defic.encies of Mineralogy in general, and on the means of removing them. Among these I consider as one of the Principal, the neglect of descriptions of fossils according to External Characters; and as I hoI d such descriptions to be most needful in Mineralogy, ' mj attention has been chiefly directed to the consideration of the External Characters