Preface.

NAT. MUSEUM

This small publication, which is itself only a type of preface or introduction to a larger work, requires no preface, indeed hardly an introduction. In truth, I would not know what special things I should say in it beyond what the title already contains. Therefore, I merely express here a wish, which is also a request, that these pages might be reviewed in our assessment institutes scholarly journals or critical review boards thoroughly, justly, and impartially, and indeed as soon as possible, so that I may make use of the remarks which insightful critics