PREFACE. . XI 



adept, and a useful guide to the veriest tyro in the difficult 

 subject of dentition as an index of age. 



It has been our effort to produce the work at the lowest 

 remunerative rate commensurate with the interests of the 

 deceased's family, to whom all benefit directly passes. 



Assured that the student will find in these pages a good quid 

 pro quo investment, we leave it with him, along with Seneca's 

 advice and the sententious rule given by Sir William Hamilton 

 in an autograph letter — 



" Non rnulta sed multum." 



" Be more anxious to read attentively a few than to read 

 many works." 



J. WILSON JOHNSTON. 



KiNNABER House, 



21f7i iSeiJtcmber, 1869. 



