viii NOTICE TO THE FIKST EDITION. 



guarantee to the public that the Translation has been under- 

 taken with the Author's full approbation : 



" Vernet les Bains, Pyrenees Orientales, 

 le 28 Aout, 1855. 



" Monsieur et cher Confrere, II ne peut m'etre qne tres 

 agreable de voir paraitre sous vos auspices une traduction 

 anglaise de mon petit ouvrage elementaire de Zoologie; 

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

 adresser une exemplaire de la derniere edition. Le nombre 

 des exemplaires deja vendus s'elevent en tout a plus de 

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

 placerait bien. 



" Veuillez agreer, Monsieur et cher Confrere, la nouvelle 

 assurance de ma parfaite consideration. 



(Signe) " MILNE EDWABDS." 



" 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 

 most eminent zoologists to such an extent that the grand 

 labours of Buffon, 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 the 

 human mind. 



The translation being addressed to Englishmen, lovers of 



