THE EDITOR, 

 3B8 permission, seMcates 



THIS BOOK TO 



SIR W. H. FLOWER, K.C.B. 



PBESIDENT OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON 



WHO, IN KINDLY GIVING THIS PERMISSION, WHITES 



THAT HE WAS "FOE EXACTLY FIFTY YEARS IN PRETTY 



CONSTAITT ASSQCIATION WITH HIM," THE EDITOR'S FATHER, 



"and so had ample OPPORTUNITIES OF 



OBSERVING HIS UNTIRING DEVOTION 



TO THE ADVAIfCEMBNT 



OP ZOOLOGY." 



