Excerpt from The Natural History of Animals, Vol. 8: The Animal Life of the World in Its Various Aspects and RelationsMuch kind assistance has also been given by the Secretaries to the French, German, Italian, Russian, and us. Embassies, the Legations of Holland and Scandinavia, the Italian Chamber of Commerce, the Imperial Russian Financial Agency, our own Department for Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company, also by the u.s.a. And Newfoundland Fisheries Departments, the High Commissioner for Canada, and the British consuls-general in Christiania, Paris, and St. Peters burg.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.