Excerpt from Animals Memoirs, Vol. 1: MammalsT is accounted the proper thing for an author to present himself in an introduction. And yet it is the common fate of this part Of a book to be passed over unread except by a few. That probably was an eccentric homilist who would write his discourse first, and hunt up a text afterwards. Thus the so-called text was simply a motto. But my prelude is true to itself, and is for the revealing in a friendly way some personalities and other matters that may help to the understanding of this book, hence I shall believe my readers will be more con siderate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.