Excerpt from Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, Late the Allan, Formerly the Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum: To Which Are Prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the Founder, and of Mr. Allan, the Late Proprietor, of the Collection, With Occasional Remarks on the Species, by Those Gentlemen and the EditorMr. Brown's work itself, although of no great extent, and the descriptions rather meager, possesses some inte rest with the scientific naturalist, from its consisting of fi gures of animals, altogether of rare occurrence, not before published, and few of them since his time. Several of the specimens of the birds there figured are still existing in the Museum, and may thus be compared for the pur pose, if judged necessary, of improving the colouring of the original work, which, though for the most part cor rectly drawn, is generally found very defective in that respect, owing, probably, to the repetition of the copies being left to unpractised artists.I cannot help noticing here how valuable it would be to students in Natural History if Linnaean or scientific Indexes, adapted to modern systematic arrangement, were published of the works Of authors preceding the time of Linnaeus, or subsequently to his time, whose works are without them. The low degree Of esteem in which index-making is held, and the labour attending it, has hitherto deterred competent persons from under taking so ungrateful a task, but those only are able to estimate the value Of such helps in Natural History, who have had to make them for their own use.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.