THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED 



TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF ONE WHO FOR MANY 

 YEARS WAS MY CONSTANT HELP IN THE PURSUITS 

 WITH WHICH IT DEALS, AND BY WHOSE HANDS 

 MANY OF THE SPECIMENS THEREIN FIGURED 

 WERE PREPARED 



AN ARDENT NATURE LOVER, WHO BOWED TO 



NATURE'S IRREVOCABLE DECREE AT THE CLOSE 



OF 1904. 



TO THE MEMORY OF 

 MY WIFE 



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