PREFACE. 



Miss E. Willmott has been good enough to 

 contribute some beautiful pictures, coast views and 

 vegetation of the littoral zone. 



Acknowledgments are also due to Mr. Stanley 

 Lane Poole ; Messrs. Lovell Reeve & Co., Frederick 

 Warne & Co., of London ; Firmin-Didot & Co., Vilmorin- 

 Andrieux & Co., of Paris; and E. Schweizerbart'sche 

 Verhandlung, Stuttgart; for permission to produce 

 certain illustrations. 



To Sir Thomas Hanbury, at whose expense the 

 book was originally printed, I am indebted for the 

 foot-notes which are followed by the initials T. H. 



Some of my friends have blamed me for wasting 

 my time over a book which has brought me no 

 profit, and in which I have no pecuniary interest. 

 But I may, perhaps, venture to plead that there are 

 many recreations even less profitable than writing 

 notes upon the Natural History of the Riviera. 



C. C. 



PARK STONE, 



September, 1903. 



