IMPORTANT NOTICE. 
0RB'S ZOOLOGY 
The subscriber would annouDce that he has discovered a perfect 
copy (2 vols.) of the long lost " Second American Edition " of Guthrie's 
Geography, published in 1815. As is well known, this edition is of 
peculiar interest, as being the only one containing the part on American 
Zoology by the celebrated naturalist, George Ord. In it, Mr. Ord im- 
posed, for the first time, binomial scientific names on several species 
of American Mammals and Birds, in some instances giving detailed de- 
scriptions of the same, quoted from the history of the Lewis and Clark 
Expedition. 
The only copy of Ord's Zoology known to Bibliographers was an 
author's separate, probably presented by Mr. Ord, in the Library of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This copy disappeared 
several years ago in a very mysterious manner. 
The value of the present copy is greatly enhanced by the fact that 
it is not only intact within the second volume of Guthrie's Geography, 
but that it is Mr. Ord's private annotated copy and was presented 
at his deattito the Philadelphia College of Physicians. 
A Reprint of the part on Zoology is now being prepared for publi- 
cation and will probably be ready for distribution in February, 1894. 
It will include the entire part beginning (Vol. II. p. 290) at the word 
" Zoology," and ending (p. 361,) at paragraph entitled " Natural Curios- 
ities." This will be preceded by a frontispiece plate of Mr. Ord, with 
fac-simile signature and a brief introduction. An Appendix, treating 
briefly questions relating to nomenclature, history, etc., which remain 
unsettled owing to the disappearance of the work, or have arisen in the 
renaissance of American Mammalogy, will be added. As nearly as 
possible the reprint will be an exact reproduction of the size, paging, 
paragraphing, typography and mistakes of the original. The marginal 
annotations, in lead-pencil, made beyond reasonable doubt by Mr. Ord 
himself, will be fully commented upon. It is almost useless to add that 
no one with scientific, bibliographic or popular interest in American 
Literature can afford to be without this reprint of a strangely extinct 
work, the first systematic Zoology of America by an American. 
Price per copy, prepaid, bound in cloth, $1.50. 
Address all orders to the editor and publisher, 
SAMUEL N. RHOADS, 
Haddonfield, New Jersey. 
