Excerpt from A Reprint of the North American Zoology: Being an Exact Reproduction of the Part Originally Compiled by Mr. Ord for Johnson and Warner, and First Published by Them in Their Second American Edition of Guthrie's Geography, in 1815; Taken From Mr. Ord's Private, Annotated Copy It is probably to this copy that Dr. Cones refers in the Bibliographic Appendix to his Birds of the Colorado Valley. After giving part of the title of this specimen, Dr. Cones notes, above title defective after the first two lines, the only copy I ever handled, having part of the title page torn off. 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.

Subtitle; The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, palentology and zoology.