PEEFACE 



TO 



THE TENTH EDITION. 



Mr. Ronalds died in 1860 in Australia, 

 where he passed the last eighteen years of 

 his life. 



In preparing the tenth edition of his 

 uncle's book it was a natural desire of the 

 present editor to add a chapter on dry 

 fly fishing, as practised at the present day. 

 Further consideration, however, satisfied 

 him that the peculiar merit of the " Fly 

 Fisher's Entomology " and its well-earned 

 place for the last sixty-four years in the 

 estimation and on the shelves of those 

 votaries of fly-fishing who delight in the 



