PREFACE. 



The Publication Committee of the North Staffordshire 

 Naturalists' Field Club have much pleasure in issuing to 

 their fellow-members a selection of Addresses and Papers 

 read before the society, together with special contributions 

 on the Fossil Fauna of the North Staffordshire Coalfield 

 and the Entomology of the district. 



The Committee regret that they have not been able to 

 fulfil all the anticipations of the Prospectus. They have in 

 hand two or three Papers which they regard with the 

 concurrence of the writers, they feel assured as the nucleus 

 of a second volume, to be published at some future time. 



The Committee tender their best thanks to the con- 

 tributors, to Dr. J. Barnard Davis for the loan of a number 

 of valuable wood engravings, and to Mr. A. A. Bradbury 

 for enriching the volume with an etching of Croxden Abbey. 



J. L. C. 



Hanley, May, 1875. 



