XVr INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



tilt' Means of Protection and Culture. The preliminary plan of 

 classilifation is ^iven in full, wLether specimens were obtained to illus- 

 trate it or not, and indicates ^vhcrcin the collection isstill impcriV-ct.* 



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 i)ermaueut collections of the National ^Museum, and 

 ha\'e for many years been on exhibition in the Smithsonian building. 



G. BROWJS^ GOODE. 



Washington, April 11, 1879. 



* For a fuller exposition of this plan see the following pamphlet : 

 International Exhibition 187G. | Board in Behalf of United States Executive Depart- 

 ments. I =1=:^ I Classifieation | of the | Collection to Illustrate | the Animal Re- 

 soures of the United States. | A List of Substances derived from the Animal Kinitdom, 

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

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



Curator | U. S. National iluseum. | | "Washington: | Government Printing 



Office. I 187G. I 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 tho 

 fimithsoniau Miscellaneous Collections, Washington, 1878. 



