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PEEFACE. 
observant traveller, with an aptitude to delineate, both by pen and pencil, the facts 
and features of the countries traversed and their inhabitants, exactly as they came 
before him. 
N. 
After his return, what most would regard as leisure from professorial and 
administrative duties was employed by him in arranging for publication the information 
obtained on his journeys. 
The love of travel, and the after-pleasure of gathering in, systematizing, and 
giving forth to the public the knowledge thereby gained, continued unabated after his 
retirement from the service of the Indian Government, and, as his later publications 
show, Avere mainly devoted to zoological research. 
But I shall have to be pardoned for dwelling perhaps too long on these 
recollections, which bring to me both pride and pain—the latter predominating—as I 
close the literary record in Avhich I Avas privileged during many happy years to have a 
humble share. 
My reAvard Avill be to find that scientific research, in any branch, has been 
encouraged and stimulated by his example. 
71 Harringtou Gardens, Loudon, 
November 1902. 
GEACE S. ANDEESON. 
