CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Title-page i 



Dedication iii 



Foreword (by Henry Fairfield Osborn) '. v 



Preface . . . vii 



Contents ix 



Autobiographical Notes 1 



Early surroundings and training (1838-1858) 1 



At Wilbraham Academy and home studies (1858-1862) ... 4 



Special student under Louis Agassiz (1862-1871) .... 8 



With the Agassiz Expedition in Brazil (1865) . . . . 11 



Collecting trip to the Middle West (1867) . . 18 



East Florida Expedition (1868-1869) 20 



Assistant at Museum of Comparative Zoology (1871-1885) . . 20 



Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Expedition (1871-1872) . . 20 



Yellowstone Expedition (1873) 27 



Special collaborator, U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey of 



the Territories (1876-1882) 32 



Curator at American Museum of Natural History (since 1885) . . 33 

 Affiliations with the American Ornithologists' Union and other scientific 



societies (since 1883) 39 



General considerations and home life (since 1874) 42 



Addenda . . . . . . .. . . . . 43 



Expeditions 43 



Positions held . . . 44 



Honors received (including memberships in home and foreign 



Societies and Academies of Science) 45 



Bibliography ... 49 



Mammals . 50 



List of titles 51 



New higher groups 83 



New genera and subgenera 83 



New species and subspecies 84 



Index to Mammals 101 



Birds 115 



List of titles 115 



New genera 192" 



New species and subspecies 192 



Reptiles, list of titles . . . 195 



Zoogeography, list of titles 196 



Evolution, list of titles 198 



Nomenclature, list of titles 201 



Biography, list of titles 205 



Miscellaneous, list of titles 210 



Editorial work 213. 



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