x PREFACE. 
Dr. Buckland’s drawings and engravings above referred to. 
These specimens were obtained at the sale of the collection 
of the late Rev. Mr. Mac Enery, a zealous and successful 
explorer of that rich depository of the remains of Extinct 
Mammalia. I owe similar acknowledgments to Mr. Lons- 
dale and to Mr. Woodward, for their obliging attention 
during my study of the fossils in the Museum of the Geo- 
logical Society of London ; and to Sir H. de la Beche and 
Professor Edward Forbes, through whose kindness I have 
profited by the important and rapidly advancing Museum 
of Economic Geology. 
I have derived much information from those indispens- 
able aids to the progress of British Natural History, the 
Local Museums, now established in most of our provincial 
cities and towns; and I beg particularly to express my 
obligations to Professor Phillips, during my study of the 
fossils in the Museum at York; and to the Directors and 
Curators of the Museums in Bristol, Newcastle, Birming- 
ham, Manchester, Hull, Falmouth, Stamford, Saffron 
Walden, and Lancaster. ’ 
The private museums and collections of Mammalian 
Fossils, for free access to which, and for the loan of 
specimens described and figured in the present work, I 
here return most grateful acknowledgments, are those 
of the Marchioness of Hastings, the Earl of Enniskillen, 
Lord Braybrooke, Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., 
the Hon. R. Neville, Mr. Ball, Mr. Bowerbank, Mr. Brown 
of Stanway, Mr. Colchester of Ipswich, Mr. Dixon of Worth- 
ing, Mr. Fitch of Norwich, Mr. John Wickham Flower, 
the Rey. Darwin Fox, Mrs. Gibson of Stratford, Mr. Green 
of Bacton, Miss Gurney of Northrepps near Cromer, the 
Rev. F. Lyte of Torquay, Mr. Lyell, Mr. Pratt, Mr. 
Richardson, Mr. Stone of Garlick Hill, Mr. Stutchbury 
