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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History), Vol. 4 The preparation of the fourth Volume of Ungulate Mammals was nearing completion when its author was struck down by the illness that proved fatal. With his characteristic devotion to work, he hardly allowed this to make any difference, under circumstances when most men would have considered themselves unfit for mental effort. It would perhaps have been better if the patient had allowed himself to rest, but the correction of the proofs went on until the task was completed, only two or three days before the end came, on April 16th. Mr. Lydekker, although not a member of the permanent staff, had been officially connected with the Museum since 1884. Only those who have seen the work from the inside will be able to realise the extent and the value of his services to the Museum, where his colleagues have the remembrance of a long and highly successful period of help unremittingly and ungrudgingly given. The present Volume includes the families Cervidae, Tragulidae, Camelidae, Suidae and Hippopotamidae, thus completing the Artiodactyla. Like its predecessors, it has been prepared by Mr. Lydekker. It was hoped that the Catalogue would be completed shortly by the publication of a fifth Volume, including the Perissodactyla, the Hyracoidea, and the Proboscidea, together with addenda to the earlier volumes. It is not possible at present to state whether this intention can be carried out. 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."