XV111 PREFACE. 



Nature for her own sake, is in some measure returned by my 

 very numerous readers : the belief, backed by frequent individual 

 assurances, that such is the case, is an appropriate and abundantly 

 ample reward for the unceasing, though agreeable, labour of superin- 

 tending the publication of the 'Zoologist.' 



EDWARD NEWxMAN. 



9, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate, 

 November 27, 1848. 



