Henry 'Willett for a hitherto unpublished poem, 

 /;/ Memoriam. 



1 wish also to thank the following Editors and 

 Publishers for their courtesy in letting me print 

 matter which is their copyright : — Messrs. Adam 

 and Charles Black for extracts from Dr. John 

 Brown's Horcc Subsecivce j Messrs. Bradbury and 

 Agnew, Proprietors of Punch, for Rufus (Punch, 

 Jan. i, 1902); Mr. John Lane for A Retriever's 

 Epitaph (Anni Fugaces) ; Messrs. Macmillan for 

 A Dog of the Fusiliers {Macmillaris Magazine, 

 May i860), and also for their leave to use a 

 quotation from the translation of the Odyssey by 

 Messrs. Butcher and Lang ; Messrs. Smith Elder 

 and Co. for Tray ; Mr. John Murray for his leave, 

 and also for obtaining leave of Mr. Darwin's 

 family, to print extracts from two of Mr. Darwin's 

 books ; the Editor of the Spectator for leave to 

 print Mike Hourigan's Pup {Spectator, Mar. 28, 

 1 901), the Carrier Dog of Berlin (April 20, 1901), 

 and An Epitaph on a Dog (Feb. 1, 1902). 



I must also thank Mr. Neville E. Cobbold for 

 his kind help ; and above all I must thank my 

 father for certain quotations from the Latin, and 

 his help and advice. 



To the Reader let me apologise for the many 

 omissions he will, I fear, find ; if he will give me 

 the reference for anything of interest which I 

 have overlooked, I shall be most grateful. 



