Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS.
Keeper of the Natural History Collections, Science and Art Museum,Dublin; Member of the Royal Irish Academy; CorrespondingMember of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft.
LONDON
WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1899
Our knowledge of the present and past fauna ofEurope is as yet insufficient to indicate with precisionthe original homes of its component elements, but Ihope that the lines of research laid down here, andthe method of treatment adopted, will aid zoologistsand geologists in collecting materials for a more comprehensivestudy of the history of our animals. Itrust also that a fresh impulse will be given by thepublication