A Treatise on the Law of Marine Collisions

hesitated to appropriate such matter as applied to the work
in hand.

I desire also to express most grateful acknowledgment
to my friend Honorable R. R. Nelson, the learned and ac-
complished Judge of the District Court of the United States
for the District of Minnesota, for his encouragement dur-
ing the somewhat extended period through which this work
has been in progress, and to express the hope that his faith
in its usefulness may not be wholly unrealized.

If this book fulfills the mission for which it was de-
signed, to be of practical use in the every-day business of
the practitioner, the object of the author will have been
accomplished.
HERBERT R. SPENCER.

DULUTH, September, 1895.