_First Edition_ (Fcap. 8vo), May 1855. _Second Edition_, August 1855. _Third Edition_, 1856. _Fourth Edition_ (with Coloured Illustrations), 1859. _Fifth Edition_ (Crown 8vo), 1873. _Reprinted_ 1878, 1879, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1890. I CANNOT forego the pleasure of dedicating this little book to you; excepting of course the opening exhortation (needless enough in your case) to those who have not yet discovered the value of Natural History. Accept it as a memorial of pleasant hours spent by us already, and as an earnest, I trust, of pleasant hours to be spent hereafter (perhaps, too, beyond this life in the nobler world to come), in examining together the works of our Father in heaven.…
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