FOREWORD 



BY WILLIAM BEEBE 



A FOREWORD to a volume such as the present 

 one of Dr. Gregory's is as superfluous as would be 

 the retention of the third eye, the Cyclopean one, 

 of our ancestors, in the center of our forehead 

 today. No more wonderful subject for a volume 

 could be imagined than the evolution of the human 

 face, and no more competent author than William 

 K. Gregory. The result seems to me eminently 

 satisfactory. 



If the reader's interest is real but cursory, let 

 him do nothing but look at the illustrations. 

 They will ensure a thousand percent interest to 

 every walk along Fifth Avenue or Regent Street. 

 If pressure of other interests permits only an hour's 

 perusal, or complete lack of natural history know- 

 ledge requires facts to be strained through the 

 mesh of popular language, read but the preface 

 and the first few paragraphs of each chapter. 



Taken as a whole this is not a "popular" book in 



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