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acN/H?^3 DEDICATION. 



My deae Miss Grenfell, 



I CANNOT forego the pleasure of dedicating 

 this little book to you; excepting of course the 

 opening exhortation (needless enough in your case) 

 to those who have not yet discovered the value of 

 Natural History. Accept it as a memorial of pleasant 

 hours spent by us already, and as an earnest, I trust, 

 of pleasant hours to be spent hereafter (perhaps, too, 

 beyond this life in the nobler world to come), in 

 examining together the works of our Father in 

 heaven. 



Your grateful and faithful brother-in-law, 



C. KINGSLEY. 



BiDEFORD, 



A2yril 24, 1855. 



