PREFACE. 



Dr. BucklancTs drawings and engravings above referred to. 

 These specimens were obtained at the sale of the collection 

 of the late Rev. Mr. Mac Enery, a zealous and successful 

 explorer of that rich depository of the remains of Extinct 

 Mammalia. I owe similar acknowledgments to Mr. Lons- 

 dale and to Mr. Woodward, for their obliging attention 

 during my study of the fossils in the Museum of the Geo- 

 logical Society of London ; and to Sir H. de la Beche and 

 Professor Edward Forbes, through whose kindness I have 

 profited by the important and rapidly advancing Museum 

 of Economic Geology. 



I have derived much information from those indispens- 

 able aids to the progress of British Natural History, the 

 Local Museums, now established in most of our provincial 

 cities and towns; and I beg particularly to express my 

 obligations to Professor Phillips, during my study of the 

 fossils in the Museum at York ; and to the Directors and 

 Curators of the Museums in Bristol, Newcastle, Birming- 

 ham, Manchester, Hull, Falmouth, Stamford, Saffron 

 Walden, and Lancaster. 



The private museums and collections of Mammalian 

 Fossils, for free access to which, and for the loan of 

 specimens described and figured in the present work, I 

 here return most grateful acknowledgments, are those 

 of the Marchioness of Hastings, the Earl of Enniskillen, 

 Lord Braybrooke, Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., 

 the Hon. R. Neville, Mr. Ball, Mr. Bowerbank, Mr. Brown 

 of Stanway, Mr. Colchester of Ipswich, Mr.Dixon of Worth- 

 ing, Mr. Fitch of Norwich, Mr. John Wickham Flower, 

 the Rev. Darwin Fox, Mrs. Gibson of Stratford, Mr. Green 

 of Bacton, Miss Gurney of Northrepps near Cromer, the 

 Rev. F. Lyte of Torquay, Mr. Lyell, Mr. Pratt, Mr. 

 Richardson, Mr. Stone of Garlick Hill, Mr. Stutchbury 



