Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Arms on the front free endpaper "To Mr. John Nichols, with grateful appreciation, Dorothy Noyes Arms." This is undoubtedly John T. Nichols, author of "Fishes in the Vicinity of New York City," 1918, and several other works. He was most likely a member of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, and this copy bears a few markings of that institution including a bookplate with withdrawl rubberstamp, blindstamp and ink number on title-page. The author was the wife of the distinguished artist and etcher John Taylor Arms.