A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammals in the Field Columbian Museum (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammals in the Field Columbian Museum Every example in the Museum that has passed through the Author's hands is contained in this Catalogue, together with all the information possessed regarding it; commencing with the sex, whether collected, purchased, presented, or exchanged, followed by the locality in which it was taken, the person or institution from which it was procured, ending with the name of the collector. The signs and abbreviations used are: male; 9 female; Coll., collected; P., purchased; Pres, presented; and Exch., exchanged. The arrangement is that Of the check-list of Mammals of the North American Continent and West Indies, as far as that work goes, viz for the mammals of the North American fauna, the exotic species being relegated to their various positions in accordance with the system of classification adopted by the Author. One species is described, a bat, Uroderma validum, on page 538, the discovery that the specimens represented a new form having been made too late for the Author to avail himself of any of the usual channels of publica tion and include it at the same time in the present work. 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.