Vni PREFACE. 



has been attended with benefit to *' the new man/' by necessarily 

 forcing him to con over page for page, and pedigree for pedigree, 

 that wliich he might not perhaps have studied so carefully had not 

 the public given him occasion for so doing. The excellence, then, 

 of the Messrs. Coates' labours, and their appreciation by the agri- 

 cultm-al community, have been attended with this good result, viz., 

 that it has given the present Editor a thorough insight into their 

 plans, and facilitated his applications to their chief authorities. 



With this volume the work assumes once more a complete cha- 

 racter ; while its compiler feels himself the better prepared to ad- 

 vance with it. More recent friends can now at once avail them- 

 selves of those means for research and reference of which they have 

 for some years been deprived ; as our old friends, with the ground 

 thus cleared, have greater security for their stock being chroni- 

 cled at regular periods. The Editor, in short, feels that he has esta- 

 bhshcd an intimacy with his supporters ; and so stands armed with 

 gTeater spirit for the future, but not with less gratitude for the 

 past. 



4, MoRETON Villas, Camden Town, 

 London, June, 1847. 



