6 — 
The principal purpose oí these «Notas Prelimi¬ 
nares» is to qnickly divulge observations, diagnoses or 
informations we may wish to transmit to our eolleagues. 
With this in view we find it necessarv to let our 
diagnosis being accompanied by transiations in English, 
Frendi or German in order to facilitate the reading ot 
thern by our foreign eolleagues. 
Taken in all, however, the descriptions published 
here, will be reproduced in the Revista do Museu Pau¬ 
lista where we will generally discuss the same subject 
a -second time. 
Jíct. Director 0/ the jYíuseu paulista , São paulo-prajil. 
