author's dedicatio:n^. ix 



T have myself to thank for some part of this annoyance, 

 inasmuch as I have published but little beyond the present 

 hanl-book, daring the last few years ; I found it more con- 

 venient to incorporate the results of my work — so far as they 

 were worthy of such incorporation — into the new edition of the 

 hand-book, than to print them separately. I would therefore 

 ask you to bear this bad habit of your friend in mind, while 

 reading this new edition which belongs to you, and to judge 

 what I have written, with indulgence. 



EINDFLEISCH. 



Bonn, 1st Novemher, 1870. 



