Excerpt from The Natural History of Some Common AnimalsIn addition to those to whom acknowledgments of kind assistance are made in the text, I must express my thanks to Mr M. D. Hill, of Eton College, for reading the proofs and for numerous helpful suggestions, to my former pupil Mr Edgar Schuster, of New College, Oxford, for valuable help in consulting the literature of the subject, and to Mr A. E. Shipley, of Christ's College, Cam bridge, for permission to use a large number of the plates that appear in Shipley and macbride's Zoology, and for frequent advice and help in the course of the preparation of the book. I am also much indebted to Mr Edwin Wilson for the skill and care which he has bestowed upon my original drawings, figs. 15, 16, 20, 35, 36, 37 and 38, in preparing them for reproduction.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.