Dedication. 
My DEAR MIss GRENFELL, 
I cannot forego the pleasure of dedicating 
this little book to you; excepting of course the 
opening exhortation (needless enough in your case) 
to those who have not yet discovered the value of 
Natural History. Accept it as a memorial of 
pleasant hours spent by us already, and as an 
earnest, I trust, of pleasant hours to be spent 
hereafter (perhaps, too, beyond this life in the 
nobler world to come), in examining together the 
works of our Father in heaven. 
Your grateful and faithful brother-in-law, 
C. KINGSLEY. 
BIDEFORD, 
April 24, 1855. 
