Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College: Published by Order of the Legislature of Massachusetts, North American AcalephæHere, but as special attention has been paid to them in the Museum at Cambridge, and as Professor Agassiz has introduced there a large number of diagrams, all 00pied from original drawings, to illustrate the structure and colors of animals which were too small or too perishable to be preserved in the ordinary way, these valuable mate rials have been extensively used in the preparation of this Catalogue, as forming actually a part of the collections exhibited in the show cases. The diagrams, as well as the authorities from which they are taken, are carefully enumerated below, after the specimens preserved in the collection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.