492 CONTENES? 820:

to become inſets; depredation of the honey and wax in- Jurious to plants; honey-dew; honey oxygenated by ex- poſure to air; neceflary for the produdtion of ſenſibility; the proviſion for the embryon plant of honey, ſugar, ſtarch, &c. ſupplies food to numerous clafles of animals; various vegetable ſecretions, as gum tragacanth, camphor, elemi, anime, turpentine, balſam of Mecca, aloe, myrrh, elaſtic reſin, manna, ſugar, wax, tallow, and many other concrete 4 8 Er. ZiiS: Juices; vegetable digeſtion; chemical produdtion of ſugar would multiply mankind; economy of nature,

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Diredtions to the Binder for placing the Plates in 124175 I

Pleaſe to place the print of Flora attired by the Elements op- poſite to the Title-page. Hope attended by Peace, and Art, and Labour| DES; IOL.

A Slave in Chains-=< Ä Fertilization of Egypt, p. 145. Cyprepedium fronting page 223. Erythrina fronting page 232. The Portland Vaſe, page 352 of the Additional Notes.

I. The'firft compartment ofit, p. 355.

1. The ſecond compartment of it, p. 257.

III. The handles and bottom of the Vaſe, p. 362. Sedtion of a coal-mine fronting page 375. vection of the earth fronting page 378.