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This volume, which certainly includes a considerable variety of 
subjects, is intended to serve several purposes :— 
First: To furnish visitors to the Bermudas, and all others inter- 
ested in the subjects treated, a convenient and comprehensive trea- 
tise on the history, structure, and productions of the islands. 
Second: To provide a work that can be used, both by the people 
and students of Bermuda, as a manual or introductory text-book 
for studying this interesting archipelago and its Natural History. 
To this end, the Entomology has been treated somewhat fully, and 
with numerous illustrations, especially of the injurious insects, 
because this important subject has hitherto been almost entirely 
neglected by writers. 
Third: To record, so far as possible in one volume, the more 
important changes in the Flora and Fauna already caused by man, 
as a basis for the study of the future changes, which are sure to go 
on with increasing rapidity in consequence of the recent great 
“increase of commerce with the United States and West Indies. 
Fourth: To furnish a suitable general introduction to a series of 
more technical and elaborate memoirs on the Natural History and 
Geology of the islands, by the author and other naturalists, now in 
course of publication, and of which fifteen have already been issued. 
(See Bibliography, p. 452.) 
IT am under many obligations to numerous scientific friends and correspondents 
for assistance or information, as mentioned in many chapters of the book. To 
the Division of Entomology of the U. 8. Dept. of Agriculture I am indebted for 
the identification of many insects, and especially to Messrs. N. Banks and H. G. 
Dyar. See also pp. 327, 480. | 
To my son, A. Hyatt Verrill, I aim under special obligations for the care that 
he has taken to obtain a large number of excellent photographs, of which only 
a smail part are here reproduced. 
My thanks are also due to Messrs. G. & C. Merriam Co., for the loan of many 
cuts used by them in Webster’s International Dictionary. See p. 485. 
I wish also to acknowledge the many courtesies of Messrs. A. E. Outerbridge 
& Co., New York, agents of the Quebec Steamship Co., which contributed 
largely to our success in obtaining collections and photographs for this work, 
A, E. VERRILL, 
Yale University. 
New Haven, Conn., February, 1903. 
