Excerpt from The American Genealogist, Vol. 5: Being a Catalogue of Family Histories and Publications Containing Genealogical Information Issued in the United States, Arranged Chronologically In England we have to regret the death of John Gough Nichols, Esq., eminent as a genealogist, and especially noteworthy as an investigator always ready and able to assist fellow students in this country. His magazine, the Herald and Genealogist, completed its eighth volume in 1874, but was then discontinued. 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.