Excerpt from Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions, to Patagonia, Vol. 3: 1896-1899 In attempting to work up this material - the first collection of mammals of any magnitude ever received in this country from Patagonia - it was recognized at the outset that it would be of the utmost importance to make direct comparison of the species represented in it with the types and other authentic material from the same general region contained (almost exclu sively) in the British Museum, in which are the types'of Bennett's ...
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Excerpt from Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions, to Patagonia, Vol. 3: 1896-1899 In attempting to work up this material - the first collection of mammals of any magnitude ever received in this country from Patagonia - it was recognized at the outset that it would be of the utmost importance to make direct comparison of the species represented in it with the types and other authentic material from the same general region contained (almost exclu sively) in the British Museum, in which are the types'of Bennett's and Waterhouse's species, described more than a half century ago, and the types of Thomas's more recently described species from northern Argen tina and Paraguay. Accordinglya good series of specimens was taken to London during the summer of 1901, and through the kindness and cordial assistance of Mr. Oldfield Thomas, Curator of Mammals at the British Museum, I was able to make the necessary critical comparisons with the historic material relating to South American Mammalogy contained in this great Museum. Following the custom of earlier days, the Bennett and Waterhouse types were exhibited for many years as mounted specimens, and thus through long exposure to light suffered much deterioration, but they are still, of course, invaluable as standards of reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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