IV 
PREFACE. 
that zoologists may, if disposed, have the plates arranged in four 
volumes Volume 1, Mammalia; 2, Aves ; 3, Reptilia ; and 4, Pisces 
and Invertebrate. 
The necessity of bringing this work to a close without containing 
more than one part on the Annulosa of South Africa, from the pen of my 
friend, W. S. Macleay, Esq., will, I am aware, cause deep disappointment to 
naturalists. The rapid sale of the only part he was able to furnish before 
he left this country for a distant colony, and the impossibility of now 
procuring a copy of it, affords not only the strongest possible proof of its 
great merit, but also an evidence of the estimation and respect in which 
its author is held. 
ANDREW SMITH, M.D. 
30 th November, 1849. 
