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A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, systematically divided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure, and peculiarities. By Sir Charles Linnè: translated Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections, derived from the Transactions of the Linnean and other Societies, as well as from the classical works of Shaw, Thornton, Abbot, Donovan, Sowerby, Latham, Dillwyn Lewin, Martyn, Andrews, Lambert, &c. &c. with a life of Linnè, appropriate copper-plates, and a dictionary explanatory of the terms which occur in the several departments of natural history.... In seven volumes. Animal Kingdom. Vol. I. Mammalia. Birds. Amphibia. Fishes.
London, Lackington, Allen, & Co.: vii + 944.
–Allen 479. Also appeared in an earlier ed. (4 vols., 1800-01). The Sirenia comprise Trichechus Durong [sic] and T. Manatus (with varieties Australis [= African and American manatees], Borealis [= Hydrodamalis], and Siren [= Steller's fabulous sea-ape]) (36-37). Allen considers this work worthless.
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