PEEFACE. 



These volumes contain a selection of the most important Essays 

 contributed by the late Professor Rolleston to the Transactions 

 of various learned Societies and to scientific Journals. Along 

 with them are also reprinted several Addresses delivered before 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science and 

 other learned bodies. 



These reprints have been arranged in the following sections : 

 I. Anatomy and Physiology, in which are included many im- 

 portant Anthropological memoirs ; II. Zoology, including his 

 Memoirs on Archseo-zoology ; III. Archaeology; IV. Addresses 

 and Miscellaneous papers. 



Amongst the unpublished manuscripts left by Dr. Rolleston 

 were notes on various subjects of archaeological interest, which, 

 owing to the failure in health that for some months preceded 

 his much lamented death, he had evidently been unable to pre- 

 pare for publication. Of these, his notes on the site of some 

 Roman pottery works discovered in 1879 at the Mynchery upon 

 the Sewage Farm near Littlemore, Oxford; also notes on 

 archaeological discoveries made both at Wytham, Berks, and at 

 Yarnton, Oxfordshire, are of much interest. Unfortunately these 

 notes are too fragmentary to be reproduced in the form in which 

 he left them, but I have prepared a digest, which has been 

 printed as an appendix to the second volume. 



I have to thank the Councils of the Anthropological Institute, 

 the Zoological Society, the Linnean Society, the Society of 

 Antiquaries, the Royal Geographical Society, the Delegates of 



