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guarantee to the public that the Translation has been under- 

 taken with the Author's full approbation: 



" Vernet les Bain^. l'\ P-IK '- Orientates, 

 le 28 Aoftt, 1855. 



" Monsieur et cher Confrere, II ne peut m'Mre que tres 

 agreable de voir paraitre sous vos auspices une induction 

 angl.iisr de uion petit ouvrage e!6mentaire de Zoologie : 

 anssitot mon retour a Paris j'aurais le plaisir de vous 

 adresser un- exemplaire de la derniere edition. Le nombre 

 des exemplanrea d6ja vendus s'elevent en tout a plus de 

 30,000 ; ce qui me fait esperer que la traduction anglaise se 

 placerait bieu. 



" Yeuillez agi-eer, Monsieur et cher ConfrSre, la nouvelle 

 ranee de ma parfaite consideration. 



(Sign6) " MILNE EDWARDS." 



A M. le Docteur Knox." 



As a scientific man, and a teacher of Anatomy and of the 

 great principles of Zoology to thousands, including the names 

 of many of the most celebrated scientific men of the day, I 

 ought not perhaps to notice the literary pirates to whom I 

 have just alluded, were it not that, during the last hundred 

 years, they have, in despite of many excellent English writers. 

 greatly retarded the progress of Zoology in Britain and else- 

 where, wherever, indeed, the English language is spoken. 

 Carefully excluding from their compilations all elevated and 

 correct views of science, they have, by their anecdotic and 

 quasi-popular style, contributed to debase the works of the 

 nio.-t eminent xoologists to such an extent, that the grand 

 labours of liutl'on. the masterly researches of Cuvier, the 

 profound views of Goethe, Oken, and Spix, can scarcely be 

 recognised. Their views are anti-scientific, anti-educational: 

 calculated, if not devised, to retard the progress of t In- 

 human mind. 



A single remark is required, and will, I trust, .suffice to 



