Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Journal of Science, and Arts, 1822, Vol. 4 Being here, without the facilities of referring to works on organised remains, should these Specimens be recognised by yourself as similar to those of Europe, I should be pleased to obtain their scientific designation. I have therefore marked this set alphabetically, and have added correspond ing letters to the drawings in my collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.