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NOTICE OF THE NEW EDITION. 
Quarto) will enable the artist to group the sexes or allied species together wherever it may be found 
desirable. 
The final Part will contain a General Introduction, profusely illustrated with woodcuts, the List 
of Subscribers, and a complete Index to the whole work. 
London, September 30, 1887. 
Extracts from Professor Newton’s Address to the Biological Section of the British Association 
(Manchester, 1887). 
..When on a former occasion (at Glasgow in 1876) I had the honour of addressing a Department of tins 
„ . T • . p(1 t the enormous changes that were swiftly and inevitably coming upon the fauna of many 
:: 22 I repressed have been fully realised. I am fold by Sir Walter Buller that iu New 
Zealand one may now live for weeks and months without seeing a single example of its indigenous birds a 
W hieh in the more settled districts, have been supplanted by the aliens that have been imported ; while further 
inland these last are daily extending their range at the cost of the endemic forms. A letter ( 1 ^ " 
from Sir dames Hector whoiiy conhrms 
spec.es are, with scaicely an «“P f ^ ^ ^ the past t | ia , 0 „ ce lost can never be recovered. It is there- 
most instructive character. J PP y before they van j s h The forms that we are allowing 
— f ° rms ’ are just those tuat wm teac u us more of the r z 
which life has spread over the globe than any other recent forms; and for the sake oi posterity, as well as 
escape its reproach, we ought to learn all we can about them before they go hence and are no more seen . . - • ■ 
One thing to guard against is the presumption that the fauna originated within its present area and him 
always contained therein. Thus, I take it, that the fauna which characterizes the New- Zealand Region 
follow Professor Huxley in holding that a Region it is fully entitled to be called-is the com parativelj -little 
changed relic and representative of an early fauna of much wider range.” 
