XVI INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



tlie Means of Protection and Culture. The preliminary plan of 

 classification is given in full, wli ether specimens were obtained to illus- 

 trate it or not, and indicates wherein the collection isstill imperfect.* 



It seems appropriate to remark that a very large number of the speci- 

 mens included in this catalogue and exhibited in Philadelphia were 

 borrowed from the permanent collections of the ^STational Museum, and 

 have for many years been on exhibition in the Smithsonian building. 



G. BROWN GOODE. 



Washington, April 11, 1879. 



* For a fuller exposition of tMs plan see the followiug pamphlet : 

 International Exhibition 1876. | Board in Behalf of United States Executive Depart- 

 ments. I --=. I Classification | of the | Collection to Illustrate | the Animal Re- 



soures of the United States. | A List of Substances derived from the Animal Kin^jdom, 

 with Synopsis of the Useful and Injurious Animals | and a Classification of the Meth- 

 ods I of Capture and Utilization. | | By G. Brown Goode, M. A., | Assistant 



Curator | U. S. National Museum. | | Washington: | Government Printing 



Office. I 187G. | 8vo. pp. xiii (1) 126. Also published as Bulletin No. G, Department of 

 the Interior, United States National Museum ; and as Article VI in Vol. XII of the 

 fjmithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Washington, 1878. 



