AUTHOR*S PREFACE 



L. Leigh Fermor, London, Eng., 



A. W. Feavearyear, London, Eng., 



Lieut. F. W. Feavearyear, of the British Army, London, Eng., 



Sir Charles Hercules Read, Curator of Archaeology, and Dr. 



E. A. Wallis Budge, Curator of Assyrian and Egyptian Depart- 

 ment, British Museum, London, Eng., 

 The late Dr. Richard Lydekker, Curator, Department of Zoology, 



British Museum (recently deceased). 

 Dr. Cecil Smith, British Museum London, Eng., 

 Dr. H. Smith Woodward, Natural History Division, British 



Museum, London, Eng., 

 Lieut. Alexander H. Wheeler of the West Somerset Yeomanry, 

 Messrs. Hale & Son, Ivory Dealers, London, Eng., 

 Prof. A. Lacroix, Director of the Department of Mineralogy, 



Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Perpetual Secre- 

 tary Academic des Sciences, 

 Dr. Stanislas Meunier, Professeur-Administrateur au Museum 



National d'Histoire Naturelle, President de la Societe Geologique 



de France, Paris, 

 MoNS. Georges Pellissier, Paris, France, 

 M. Salomon Reinach, Director of the Musee de St. Germain-en- 



Laye, France, 

 Herrn Geheimrath Dr. Karl Furgold, Director of the Kunst 



Museum, Gotha, Germany, 

 Dr. Peter Jessen, Director of the Bibliothek des Koniglichen 



Kunstgewerbe-Museums, Berlin, Germany, 

 Prof. Marc Rosenberg, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, 

 Carl Hagenbeck, Importer and exporter of wild animals, Stellin- 



gen, near Hamburg, Germany, 

 Messrs. Voigt & Hochgesang, Gottingen, Germany, 

 Arthur vOn Briesen, New York, 

 Dr. Lampert of Stuttgart, Germany, 

 Herr L. Weininger, Artist-artisan, Vienna, Austria, 

 Willard K. Shaler, Secretary of the London Commission for 



Relief in Belgium, 

 Hon. Hugh S. Gibson, American Legation, Brussels, Belgium, 

 Dr. R. Scharff, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, 

 Hon. Henry D. Baker, American Consul, Bombay, India, 

 J. Kelsall Sloter, Geological Survey of Mysore, Bengalore, India, 

 F. D. Cheshire, American Consul General, Canton, China, 



