PREFACE vii 



any obscurity or bring out associations which might otherwise 

 "have been forgotten. There has been no tampering with the 

 original text. 



The additional notes of the author, marked C. St. J., are 

 printed word for word from an interleaved copy of Jenyns's 

 Manual of British Vertebrate Animals. They are interesting 

 as showing the exactitude and brevity of St. John's notes. At 

 times they also throw further light upon the text. For per- 

 mission to use them the editor is indebted to the kindness of 

 the writer's son, Admiral H. C. St. John. 



M. G. W. 



Kentchurch Rectory, July 1892. 



