TO 
HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY 
GEORGE THE FOURTH, 
KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 
&e. &e. &c. 

SIRE, 
That it has pleased your Majesty, as the 
Patron and Protector of the Arts and Sciences, to honor with 
distinguished notice this “ Selection from the most remarkable 
Fishes of Ceylon,” is highly gratifying to my feelings ; and, after 
having served your Majesty and my country twenty-two years in 
civil and military situations, to find that your Majesty has given 
special permission for the efforts of my pencil to be thus dedicated, 
demands the most respectful thankfulness of, 
SIRE, 
Your Majesty’s most duteous, orateful, 
and devoted Subject, 
J. W. BENNETT. 
Lonvon, March 1, 1830. 

