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BIOLOGY 

 LIBRARY 



PREFACE 



THE following pages contain the narrative of Mr. 

 Seebohm's two Siberian Expeditions the first under- 

 taken in 1875 in company with Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown 

 of Dunipace to the valley of the Petchora ; the other, 

 more lengthy and arduous, to the Yenesei river in 

 1877, when, though without any fellow-naturalist to 

 share his labours, he had the advantage of the 

 companionship of Captain Wiggins, the well-known 

 Siberian navigator. Under the respective titles of 

 " Siberia in Europe " and " Siberia in Asia," the 

 results of these two journeys were published in 1880 

 and 1882. 



Both works having passed out of print, it was 

 arranged to combine them in one volume. Mr. 

 Seebohm set about the task, and had nearly finished 

 it when his death occurred. With regard to the 

 present completion of it, it is only necessary to say 

 that, though the author has in various places made 

 emendations of his former text, the nomenclature and 

 the ornithology generally are here given as he left 

 them. Certain passages which were unnecessary to 

 a combined edition, or which had been superseded by 



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