WITH 148 ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK HENRY HOLT & COMPANY 1883 TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE LAMBETH FIELD CLUB THESE PAPERS ARE Dedicated BY THEIR FELLOW-MEMBER AND PAST-PRESIDENT THE AUTHOR. "It certainly is a marked advantage in the study of natural history that it leads you on by the hand; it inveigles you, if I may say so, into learning what is good and what is useful. Many a one might have his mind first opened to the attractions of natural history, which mind, if once opened, might perhaps be capable of applying itself beneficially to harder and more repulsive studies. These analogies of natural history are invaluable; they have a most gracious effect in developing the finer faculties of the mind; they establish a connection between the different portions of creation."-Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. |