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Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York, Vol. 1
This book is a verbatim reprint of the first and second instal ments of my work upon The Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region, Northeastern New York, which was published in Vols. I and II of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York. Pages 9 - 107 (comprising the first instalment) appeared in Vol. I, separates issued in October, 1882. The paging is unchanged. Pages 108 - 312 (comprising the second instalment and concluding the mammalia) appeared in Vol. II, which was issued in August, 1884. The paging has here been altered 'to conform to that of the first instalment, of which it is a direct continuation.
Most of the biographies were written during or previous to the year 1882, and were read at different times before the Linnaean Society of New York. Pages 107 - 240 received supplemental matter at the time of going to press, the additional material having been acquired after the biographies had been read before the Society. Pages 240 - 312 were not so augmented, excepting in the article on the Muskrat, for the reason that this portion of the work had already exceeded its intended limits.
Since the first instalment was issued much additional matter per taining to the species there treated has been gathered; and even while the second instalment has been passing through the press many facts of importance have come into the author's possession.
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