DEDICATION. 



My dear Miss Grexfell, 

 I CANNOT forego the pleasure of dedicating 

 this little book to you ; excepting of course the 

 opening exhortation (needless enough in your 

 case) to those who have not yet discovered the 

 value of Natural History. Accept it as a me- 

 morial of pleasant hours spent by us already, 

 and as an earnest, I trust, of pleasant hours to 

 be spent hereafter (perhaps, too, beyond lliis life 

 in the nobler world to come) in examining to- 

 gether the works of our Father in Heaven. 

 Yours ever gratefully and faillilully, 



<• KIKGSLEY. 



BiDEFORD, Ajiril 24, 1855. 



