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APPENDIX 



A. page t4, The skeleton of the Megatherium is furnished to purchasers 

 carefully boxed, and with Nos. on the ribs and vertebra which prevent confusion. 

 Drawings of the Irons for mounting will be sent gratis, or the Irons themselves 

 for the price of $45. Information will also be given to those who wish to mount 

 the skeleton themselves. Mr. Ward will send two experienced workmen to 

 mount it for those who may desire. In these cases he will furnish the Irons and 

 the Tree (see cut), and do the work — leaving the specimen complete and painted, 

 — for the sum of $350, and the railroad fare of the men.* To render the 

 great skeleton still more attractive, as well as to furnish the necessary pro- 

 tection against injury from visitors, an iron railing has been prepared. It 

 has ten square, ornamental, bronzed posts with two parallel, horizontal bars be- 

 tween them, forming an enclosure. On the top of each of these posts is a bronzed 

 statue of an Edentate animal — either living or fossil. These are, in the order 

 in which they should stand, — the Pichiciego, Armadillo, Aard-vark, Sloth, Mylo- 

 don, Little Ant-eater, Great Ant-eater, Phatagin — or long-tailed Manis, — Glypto- 

 don, and Megalonyx. The price of this railing complete, with bronzed posts, 

 each strongly boxed, is $175.00. 



The Megatherium, when well mounted and carefully colored, cannot be dis- 

 tinguished (save on critical examination) from an actual skeleton,! an( ^ * s tue 

 most graphic and imposing of the entire series of casts noticed in the Catalogue. 

 It forms a very appropriate object to stand in the middle of a large Geological 

 Hall. 



* The transportation of all the material, and the cost of the pedestal on which 

 the skeleton stands, would be met by the purchaser. 



f " The views of the entire skeleton (of the Megatherium) have been taken from 

 the articulated casts, which are so beautifully exact, as, for all the essential purposes 

 of science, to be of the same value and utility as the bones themselves would be, if so 

 articulated together." Owen, Memoir on Megatlierium, page, 12. 



