PREFACE. 



Aided by many hands no less willing than able, this 

 volume of ' The Ibis ' presents an appearance of which 

 its Editor would feel justly proud, did he not know that 

 its merits are due far more to the efficient support he 

 has received from his friends than to his own endea- 

 vours. 



A. N. 



Magdalene College, Cambridge. 

 October 1869. 



