NOTICE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



ENCOUEAGED by the extraordinary patronage bestowed on 

 the first English edition of this work (the sale of 3500 

 copies), the translator has spared no pains to render this 

 new edition deserving the patronage already bestowed on the 

 first. He has added many new observations, derived as well 

 from his own researches as from those of others, and has 

 illustrated these by numerous additional wood engravings. 

 He trusts, therefore, that the new edition will be found au 

 courant with the present state of zoological knowledge in 



Europe. 



U.K. 



LONDON, 1862. 



NOTE TO SECOND EDITION. 



MY late friend Dr. Knox having completed the revision of 

 the present edition of Milne Edwards's Manual of Zoology, 

 only survived to correct the proofs as far as the thirty-second 

 page. A short period after his lamented decease, Mr. Eenshaw 

 confided this editorial duty to me, with the expression of his 

 wish that, out of respect to the memory of the late Dr. Knox, 

 I should make as few alterations as possible. Having enjoyed 

 the privilege of the personal acquaintance of the venerable 

 anatomist until the period of his decease, I also was anxious 



