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who, though not always professed zoologists, saw with interest 
the land fauna in the earlier stages of its now disturbed and 
depleted condition. At present this information is spread over 
a considerable number of volumes, some of which have become 
rare. I venture to think it would be a useful and helpful 
accomplishment if the scattered records thus preserved for us 
were summarised and brought together in a connected and con- 
venient form with an up-to-date identification of the animals 
noticed so far as this is possible. 
It was a résumé of the observational zoology of the Pre- 
Gouldian Era carried out on these lines which I had in view 
when I undertook to deliver an address on the rise and early 
progress of faunistic knowledge. This, however, is too lengthy 
a production for a single address, and for the space available 
in the forthcoming Report of this year’s meeting. It seems 
desirable, too, that it should be kept intact. In the hope of 
publishing it in its entirety elsewhere I have found it necessary, 
therefore, to content myself with offering merely an amplified 
Introduction on the present occasion. 
