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THE LIBRARY
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THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
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PRESENTED BY
PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND
MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID
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CASE
PLINY'S
NATURAL HISTORY.
IN
THIRTY-SEVEN BOOKS.
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A TRANSLATION
ON THE BASIS OF THAT BY DR. PHILEMON HOLLAND,
WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.
VOL. I.
bp tf)e WUcnurtan Club.
PRINTED FOE THE CLUB
BY
GEOKGE BAKCLAY, CASTLE STEEET, LEICESTER SQUARE.
184-1
v.l-3
PURSUANT to a Resolution to the following effect, passed at a meeting of the Committee held on Wednesday, 3rd February, 1847: —
" The best thanks of the Club are hereby presented to —
JONATHAN COUCH, Esq. F.L.S., the Superintending Editor of this
Publication, and Translator of the Work.
Also to the following Gentlemen, viz.: —
In the Department of Astronomy,
SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL, BART. F.R.S.
In the Department of Classical Literature,
Rev. GEORGE MUNI-ORD, M.A.
W. G. V. BARNEWALL, Esq. M.A.
Rev. T. FULCHER, B.A.
In the Departments of Antiquities and Geography,
JONATHAN COUCH, Esq. F.L.S.
C. J. B. ALDIS, Esq. M.D.
OCTAVIUS A. FERRIS, Esq.
CHARLES MOXON, Esq.
For the Editorial Assistance rendered by them in the preparation of the accompanying Work."
PREFACE,
INCLUDING A
MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
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