PREFACE 7 
all but finished a year ago: but publication has been 
delayed for a time in the hope that further manuscript 
bearing on the collections may be discovered (see 21, 6. 1). 
When the volume devoted to the memory of Burchell 
makes its appearance, it will not, like its predecessors, be 
‘printed for private circulation,’ but will be freely accessible 
to the public. 
EDWARD. .b.. POULTON. 
HOPE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, 
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, OXFORD, 
June 25, 1906. 
