PREFACE. 



T7NC0UEAGED by the success of " The Sea and its 



1-*"^ Living Wonders," I now venture to appear before 

 the pubhc with a general survey of animal and vegetable 

 life in the Tropical regions. 

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A glance over the Contents will satisfy the reader that 

 have condensed a great mass of information within a 

 arrow compass ; and as I have constantly endeavoured 

 to combine the useful and the agreeable, I hope that 

 this treatise may both please the general reader and 

 stand the test of a severer criticism. 



a. HARTWia. 



Heidelbekg, Nov. 8, 1862. 



