Having been permitted to dedicate my ivork on the 

 ^^ Birds of Australia" to Iter Most Gracious Majesty 

 Queen Victoria, I was 7iaturally desirous of dedicating 

 the companion-ioorJc on the Mainmals of the same 

 country to Her Majesty's most enlightened and accom- 

 '})lished Consort; and the required iier mission was 

 readily and graciously granted me. The dispensation 

 lohich has deprived Her Majesty and the Prince's 

 adopted country of one ivhose untimely loss we all 

 deplore, still leaves me the privilege of that permission, 

 and my ivork will continue to have the honour of being 

 inscribed to His Boyal Highness. It is ivith a melan- 

 choly satisfaction that I accordingly retain that Dedi- 

 cation, which, should it meet my Sovereigns eye, will, 

 I think, only recall to her that love which the zohole 

 country entertains for his cherished memory. I feel 

 that nothing I can say respecting the admirable 

 (jualitics <f this most enlightened Prince can in any 

 loay add to the deservedly high reputation of one 

 tvhose great learning and manifohl virtues, while he 

 urns among us, did so much for Science and Art, and 

 whose exanqilc, we trust, will influence generations yet 

 unborn. 



