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PREFATORY NOTE. 



and by the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society as an 

 adequate proof of my endeavour to fulfil the commission with which I 

 was entrusted and that it will be acceptable to my zoological confreres. 



My thanks are due to those zoologists who are co-operating in the 

 production of this work. Special acknowledgment of services rendered must 

 be made to my friend Mr A. E. Shipley who has undertaken the essential 

 but ungrateful task of reading the proofs. 



In due course it is intended that a general introduction comprising 

 an account of my successive voyages shall be published as part of this 

 series and I shall then have further occasion to state my indebtedness to 

 Dr Anton Dohrn, Mr Richard Parkinson of New Britain, Prof. W. A. 

 Haswell, and others, who have favoured me with their valuable assistance 

 from time to time. 



A. W. 



Christ's College, 

 Cambridge. 



Aug. 4, 1898. 



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