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CORRESPONDENCE 
a work on the comparative osteology of the procyonid^ 
Editor Journal of Mammalogy: 
If your space will admit of it, I should like to invite the attention of the readers 
of the Journal of Mammalogy, and all others interested in the morphology of 
American mammals, to a work I completed several years ago on the “Comparative 
Osteology of the ProcyonidceP This memoir is complete and in all respects ready 
to go to the printers and engravers for publication. It consists of 122 type- 
written pages of matter, carrying 87 figures on 13 plates, and 7 text cuts; the 
figures are of natural size, and the work when printed will be a royal quarto. 
All of the skeletons of the procyonine mammals of the world are thus illustrated, 
including the Panda (JElurus fulgens) . The photographs are made direct from the 
specimens by the author, and taken on several views. The taxonomy of this 
interesting family of inammals is presented, and many of the osteological char- 
acters are tabulated. Most of the material was loaned from the Division of 
Mammals of the United States National Museum; so that when the memoir is 
published, the skeletons described will be accessible to a great body of students 
and mammalogists. 
Just prior to the present war, a well known publishing house in Washington, 
D. C., offered to publish this work for $670, which insured one thousand (1000) 
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paper and binding. This opportunity was lost. It can now be gotten out by the 
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terms can be made. The Elizabeth Thompson Fund of Harvard University has 
started a plan to publish it by allotting a bequest of $200, provided the balance 
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Advancement of Science has led me to hope that $100 more may be obtained 
from the $4000 on hand for such purposes. 
My plan is to publish this memoir through subscriptions from individuals 
and institutions, much after the same plan as the writings of Garrod and of 
Forbes were published by the Zoological Society of London. Any one subscrib- 
