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  REPORT 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SURVEY. 
  

  

  4. 
  — 
  Geograpbical 
  Distribution 
  and 
  Geological 
  Position 
  of 
  the 
  Remains 
  of 
  the 
  Extinct 
  

   Bisons 
  of 
  North 
  America, 
  pp. 
  32-35. 
  

  

  5._Kelation 
  of 
  the 
  Existing 
  Species 
  of 
  Bisons 
  to 
  the 
  Extinct 
  Species, 
  pp. 
  35, 
  36. 
  

   6. 
  — 
  Description 
  of 
  the 
  Existing 
  Species, 
  pp. 
  36-70. 
  

  

  Part 
  II. 
  

  

  1. 
  — 
  Geographical 
  Distribution, 
  past 
  and 
  present, 
  of 
  Bison 
  americanus. 
  pp. 
  71-191. 
  

  

  2.— 
  Products 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo, 
  pp. 
  191-201. 
  

  

  3.— 
  The 
  Chase, 
  pp. 
  202-215. 
  

  

  4. 
  — 
  Domestication 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo, 
  pp. 
  215-221. 
  

  

  Appendix 
  I. 
  pp. 
  223-231. 
  

  

  Appendix 
  IL 
  (N. 
  S. 
  Shaler). 
  pp. 
  232-236. 
  

  

  Index, 
  pp. 
  237-246. 
  

  

  Map 
  and 
  twelve 
  plates, 
  each 
  with 
  unpaged 
  explanatory 
  leaf. 
  

  

  The 
  cbanges 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  republication 
  are 
  substantially 
  as 
  

   follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  The 
  omission 
  of 
  the 
  illustrations, 
  explanatory 
  pages, 
  and 
  textual 
  

   references. 
  

  

  2. 
  The 
  omission 
  of 
  the 
  portion 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  extinct 
  species, 
  the 
  

   present 
  reprint 
  being 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  one 
  existing 
  species, 
  beginning 
  at 
  

   p. 
  3G 
  of 
  the 
  original. 
  

  

  3. 
  The 
  incorporation 
  of 
  the 
  appendices 
  in 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  text. 
  

  

  4. 
  The 
  addition 
  of 
  much 
  new 
  matter 
  by 
  the 
  author 
  himself. 
  

  

  5. 
  Various 
  minor 
  modifications, 
  with 
  the 
  slight 
  alteration, 
  chiefly 
  

   verbal, 
  of 
  context 
  incident 
  thereto. 
  

  

  6. 
  Alteration 
  of 
  the 
  title 
  to 
  suit 
  the 
  republication, 
  and 
  substitution 
  of 
  

   editorial 
  preface 
  for 
  the 
  preliminary 
  matter 
  of 
  the 
  original. 
  

  

  No 
  editorial 
  abridgment 
  or 
  digest 
  of 
  any 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  memoir 
  has 
  been 
  

   deemed 
  advisable, 
  the 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  memoir 
  here 
  reproduced 
  being 
  

   printed 
  exactly 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  copy 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  author, 
  who 
  has, 
  

   as 
  already 
  said, 
  added 
  much 
  new 
  matter 
  and 
  made 
  some 
  little 
  changes, 
  

   passi7n, 
  in 
  the 
  context. 
  A 
  few 
  editorial 
  notes, 
  chiefly 
  explanatory 
  of 
  

   modifications 
  of 
  the 
  text 
  are 
  introduced, 
  always 
  in 
  brackets. 
  

  

  In 
  its 
  present 
  form, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  wide 
  circulation 
  now 
  given, 
  it 
  is 
  

   believed 
  that 
  the 
  memoir 
  will 
  satisfy 
  the 
  desire 
  long 
  felt 
  by 
  the 
  public 
  

   to 
  possess 
  a 
  complete 
  and 
  thoroughly 
  reliable 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  con- 
  

   spicuous 
  and 
  most 
  important 
  quadruped 
  of 
  America, 
  prepared 
  with 
  the 
  

   greatest 
  care 
  and 
  pains, 
  after 
  protracted 
  and 
  patient 
  research, 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  most 
  eminent 
  therologists 
  of 
  the 
  country. 
  

  

  ELLIOTT 
  COUES, 
  

  

  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Survey. 
  

  

  