PREFATORY NOTE 
With the completion of this portion of our task we wish to 
thank in general all those who have given us help in the way 
of information and material and who have pointed out errors 
and omissions. We are in particular indebted to Messrs. 
H. Boyd Watt, J. E. Harting, J. H. Gurney, Joseph Whitaker, 
James Britten, W. Eagle Clarke, 0. V. Aplin, A. Holte 
Macpherson, L. A. Curtis Edwards, T. Parkin, H. C. Stewardson 
(British Association), the late H. Peavot (Zoological Society), 
H. W. England (Zoological Library, Nat. Hist. Museum), 
H. H. Poole (Selborne Society), Dr. B. Day don Jackson and 
the late A. W. Kappel (Linnean Society), the late J. A. 
Harvie-Brown, the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Capt. H. S. 
Gladstone, Col. Feilden, and Major Horace Terry ; while our 
special thanks are due to the late Mr. Frederic Boase, author' 
of Modern English Biography , who most kindly placed at 
our disposal his valuable store of biographical material. 
W. H. M. 
H. K. S. 
March 14, 1917. 
“ In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that 
much likewise is performed.” — Preface to Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English 
Language. 
