Transcribe Illustrated descriptive catalogue of school series of skeletons (1881)

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                                           PREFACE. 

IT has long been my intention to issue several series of skeletons, corresponding in a measure to the different series of Casts of Fossils, which should furnish educational institutions according to their varying needs with large or small collections of typical specimens. Each series, however small, was to present the principal osteological features of the various great groups which it represented, and the catalogue of each was to contain brief notes on the osteology of the animals composing it, so that with the aid of accompanying illustrations the student could readily master the principal anatomical points presented by any given series. My plans have so often been interrupted by the demands of business, that although a portion of this catalogue was written in 1879, yet it was but recently finished, and even now my departure on a tour of several months prevents me from giving it the revision which I would like, and which I feel that it needs in many places.

As soon as time allows, catalogues of the Normal School and College Series of Skeletons will be published.

The Illustrations have been carefully drawn by my assistant, Mr. Lucas, from specimens on hand, and photo-engraved in a highly satisfactory manner by the Moss Engraving Co. of New York.

                                       HENRY A. WARD. 

Rochester, N.Y,, Feb. 1, 1881.