PREFACE. vii 
In regard to that portion of the present work 
which treats of the ancient breed of wild white 
cattle, it may be thought, by some, a little presump- 
tuous on the part of the writer to deal with a subject 
on which an entire volume has been so recently and 
so ably written by the late Mr. Storer. But it 
should be stated that almost all the materials for 
this portion of the book were not only collected long 
before Mr. Storer’s work was published, but were on 
the eve of being incorporated in an important essay 
by Mr. Edward Alston, which was nearly ready for 
the press when Mr. Storer’s volume appeared. 
It would be ungenerous, however, on the part of 
the writer were he to withhold an acknowledgment 
of his indebtedness to Mr. Storer’s work for many 
useful additions to his own (each, in fact, containing 
something which the other had not), and in particular 
for several details of the former extent of ancient 
forests, which have been embodied in the Intro- 
duction. 
