Excerpt from A History of British Mammals, Vol. 1 of 3: Bats In my official capacity at the British Museum I have constantly been asked for the name Of a trustworthy book on the subject of British Mammals, and I have had to put off the enquirers with the promise of the present work, to the appearance of which every mammalogist, technical or amateur, has long been looking forward. To produce such a work is a difficult, though highly interesting task, which can only be efficiently completed in a large Museum. For this no one could be better suited than the author of the present work, who has for the last fifteen years worked constantly at the National Museum, not only on the British, but on all the European and Asiatic mammalia, and has written on them a considerable number of valuable scientific papers. He is therefore fully in touch with the literature of the subject, acquainted with all its recent advances, and in agreement with the principles of modern science. He has also had experience in the collecting and Observing of mammals in the field - at home, in continental Europe, on the Seal Islands of Bering's Sea, in Morocco, Kamchatka, and on the veldt of South Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.