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Excerpt from Natural History Essays
The kind reception accorded to certain lectures and magazine articles has encouraged the preparation of this little work. In it an attempt has been made to describe typical examples of the mammalian fauna of Africa as seen both from the zoological and the historical stand point. The information upon which this book is based being the outcome of several years' investigation, research, and correspondence, I hasten to express in this place my grateful thanks for many courtesies received from various scientific gentlemen, not only in this country but also in America, Africa, and on the.
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