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for tlieir courteous permissiou to make several long quotations 

 from Sir J. E. Tenueiit's Ceylon, and from H. W. Bates' Naturalist 

 on the River Amazons. 



Lastly, a remark about my Editors. Instead of being a 

 source of annoyance they have rendered me the greatest help. 



H. GADOW. 



Cambridge, December 19, 1900. 



