XVI INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



tlie Means of Protection ant> Culture. The prelimiuary plan of 

 classification is given in full, ^vliether specimens vere obtained to illus- 

 trate it or not, and indicates vherein 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 -svere 

 boiTo^ved from the permanent collections of the National Musernn, and 

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



G. BEOWX GOODE. 



Washington, April 11, 1879. 



"^ For a fuller exposition of this plan see the follo^ng pamjihlet : 

 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 Kingdom, 

 Avith 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 | L^. S. National Museum. | | "Washington: | Government Printing 



Oflice, ( 1876. | 8vo. pp. xiii (1) 126. Also published as Bulletin No. 6, Department of 



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



I Smithsonian Aliscellaneous Collections, "Washington, 1878. 



