PREFACE. 



zeal in hunting up references and in performing other 

 literary work is well known to many of us, has given 

 to me during the same period. 



I am likewise much gratified in being able to 

 point out the large measure of support still accorded 

 to the Editor by the contributors to this Journal. 

 The first volume of the Sixth Series is, it will be ob- 

 served, in no way inferior to its thirty companions in 

 number of pages and plates, and, as it is believed, 

 does not yield to them as regards the value and 

 interest of its contents. This promising inauguration 

 of the new series induces me to hope that I may be 

 enabled to carry out the task 1 have undertaken to a 

 successful issue. 



P. L. S. 



3 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 Sept. 1st, 1889. 



