Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

Illustrations have been moved to the nearest paragraph break. Full page illustrations, and several tables were included in the page numbers, and have also been moved, with the page numbers removed to avoid any confusion.

Illustrations,including full-page, have been moved to the nearest paragraph break.

Minor errors, reasonably attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

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Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.

John Philip Quinn