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a prominent member) held on the 20th of November, 1883, it 

 was resolved that a Committee, consisting of Prof. Flower, Prof. 

 Bell, Mr. H. H. Johnston, Prof. Mivart, and the writer of this 

 Preface, should be appointed to consider what would be the 

 most appropriate memorial of our much-loved friend and fellow- 

 worker. After some consideration it was unanimously agreed 

 that the best and most enduring memorial would be the republi- 

 cation of Forbes's Contributions to Science in a volume similar 

 to that containing Garrod's Scientific Papers, which Forbes had 

 himself edited. 



Such was the origin of the present volume, which has been 

 carefully edited by Mr. Frank Evers Beddard, Forbes's successor 

 in the Prosectorship of the Zoological Society of London. 

 Miss Garrod has prepared the Index, Mr. H. H. Johnston has 

 kindly contributed the life-like etching which forms the Frontis- 

 piece, while Prof. Bell has undertaken the task of collecting and 

 expending the necessary subscriptions. 



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