xu pep:face. 



scientific public without any addition or comment, an 

 exj)ert in the science did not seem necessary; while the 

 time required for collecting and arranging his widely- 

 scattered observations would, probably, have precluded 

 any of the small number of British palasontologists from 

 undertaking the task. Lastly, although further delay 

 might have rendered the work more complete, this 

 advantage would have been more than counterbalanced 

 by the loss to palasontologists, in the meantime, of the 

 results of some of Falconer's researches. 



' Nee dubitamus multa esse quae nos praeterierunt : homines eniin 

 sumus et occupati officiis, subsecfvisque temporibus ista cura- 



vimus.' ' 



Pliny, Pr»f. in ' Nat. Hist.' 



