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PREFACE. 
I have much pleasure in acknowledging assistance from many friends 
and acquaintances. Messrs. The Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, 
Limited, Messrs. Steel Brothers & Company, Limited, and Messrs. C. B. 
Lacey, H. Roberts and H. F. Bowden of the Bombay Burma Trading 
Corporation, Limited, Messrs. B. T. Petley, H. R. Kerr, G. H. Fraser 
and Baker of Messrs. Steel Brothers & Company, Limited, Mr. Dal- 
gleish of the Borneo Company, Siam, and Mr. W. Hepburn, M.R.C.V.S., 
have at various times afforded me information. For the drawings I am 
indebted to Major F. W. Thomas, Major T. Robinson and Captain 
A. G. Stuart, of the Indian Army, and for the coloured plates 
illustrating Fasciola Jacksoni, bacteria and other organisms to Captain 
J. D. E. Holmes, Mr. S. H. Gaiger, both of the Civil Veterinary'Depart- 
ment, and the Editor of the ''Journal of Tropical Veterinary Science.'^ 
My colleagues, Messrs. T. Rennie and C. J. N. Cameron, read the 
proof sheets and advised me as the book was passing through the 
press. Finally to Mr. R. W. Bishop, Superintendent, Government 
Printing, to whose care the publication was entrusted, my special 
thanks are due. 
It only remains to add, as on a previous occasion, that the book 
has been written at odd intervals of official duties which involve almost 
constant travelling, and no one can be more conscious of its short- 
comings than I. Nevertheless I am sanguine enough to hope that its 
publication will do something towards ensuring a better knowledge of 
elephants and perhaps the better supervision and health of these 
noble creatures. 
G. H. EVANS. 
Rangoon, June igio. 
