X PREFACE. 



museums ; and tliat at a time when the operations of 

 a short-siglited and destructive policy which influences 

 our Government in its attitude toward scientific inves- 

 tigators came quite near placing the researches herein 

 tendered to my readers and collaborators in anatomy, 

 iDcyond the pale of publication. 



• R. W. S. 



Takoma, D.C. 



Anijuat 20, 1889. 



