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Vol. IV., No. 10. Oct., 1880. 
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BRITISH ANIMALS WHICH HAVE BECOME EXTINCT 
WITHIN HISTORIC TIMES: 
With Some Account of British Wild White Cattle. 
By J. E. HARTING, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
With Illustrations by WoLr, WHYMPER, and others. 
4 : Contents :— 
_ The Bear— The Beaver—-The Reindeer—The Wild Boar—The Wolf, and Wild White Cattle. 
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE, 
“kew who have studied the literature of British Zoology can have failed to 
Vemark the gap which exists between Owen's ‘British Fossil Mammals and Birds,’ 
and Bell’s ‘British Quadrupeds,;’ the former dealing chiefly with pre-historic re- 
‘mains, the latter with species still existing. Between these two admirable works a 
connecting link, as it were, seems wanting in the shape of a history of such animals 
WS have become extinct in Britain within historic times, and to supply this is the aim 
Of the present writer. 
Of the materials collected, during many years of research, some portion has 
been already utilised in a Lecture delivered by the author before the ‘ Hertfordshire 
Natural History Society,’ in October, 1879, and in several articles in the ‘Popular 
Science Review’ and the natural history columus of ‘ The Field, 
_ The exigencies of time and space, however, necessitated a much briefer treat- 
went of the subject in the journals referred to than is here attempted, and to these 
ssays, now presented to the reader in a consolidated form, considerable additions 
ave been made. 
| That the subject admits of still further amplification the author is weil aware ; 
wt ‘ars longa vita brevis est,’ and the materials at present collected have already 
assumed such dimensions, that it has been deemed preferable to offer them to the 
reader in their present form, rather than postpone publication indefinitely, in the 
hope of some day realizing an ideal state of perfection, 
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