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* xii Characters of Fossils, and hence these form the principal subject of the present work. I have accordingly shewn that these Cha racters are not to be applied as hitherto to the systematic distribution of fossils; but merely to determine the conception of their Exterior, and to fix the method of describing them: that the External Characters hitherto .employed by Mineralogists are very indetermi nate 5 and that the perfection and utility of the External Descriptions of Fossils depend on the complete definition, and arrangement, o^ the External Characters. To remove these deficiencies in some mea sure, I have not only endeavoured to deter mine in general the proper conception of the External Characters of Fossils, and to define each in particular as accurately as in my power; but I have also pointed out the me thod of constructing complete, and duly ar T ranged,