"The article on the Zoology of North America, is, for it extent, by 

 far the most accurate which has ever appeared. The modesty of its 

 author forbids a personal acknowledgement, which the editors would 

 have the highest satisfaction in making." 



Only through the recognition of his associates, and, in larger 

 measure, by the citations of Prof. Baird in his work on the Mammals of 

 North America, is the scientific world enabled to accord to the author 

 of Ord's Zoology the honor and distinction which he humbly sought 

 to avoid. 



May the following pages not only serve to establish more clearly 

 Mr. Ord's title to a high place among the Zoologists of America, but 

 further those loftier interests which he considered so essential to scien- 

 tific progress. 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, 

 NEW YEAR'S DAY, 

 1894. 



