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Show iv PREFACE. attention, a great delay is avoided by adopting this method of publication, which must otherwise have been incurred before the tnaterials could have been made lo1own. , An Account of the Voyage, drawn up by Captain FitzRoy, (and to which I have added a volume) being on the point of publication, I shall not in this Work enter on any tninute details respecting the countries which were visited, but shall merely give a sketch of the geology in the introduction to the part containing Fossil Mammalia, and a brief geographical notice in that attached to the account of existing anitnals. At the conclusion of this Work, I shall endeavour to place together the leading results in the natural history of the different countries, from which the collections were procured. I may here state that l\1r. Owen has undertaken the description of the Fossil Mammalia; Mr. Waterhouse, the Recent Mammalia; Mr. Gould, the Birds; Mr. Bell, the Reptiles; and the Rev. L. Jenyns, the Fish. Whatever assistance I may obtain in the invertebrate classes, will be noticed in their respective places. The specimens have been presented to the various public museums, in which it was thought they would be of most general service : mention will be made in each part where the objects described have been deposited. FOSSIL I MAMMALIA, RICHARD OWEN, ESQ. F.R.S. F.G.S. F.L.S. Pll OJI'gSSO R OJ1' A~ATOM Y AND P II YS IOLOGY TO T U g R OYAL CO J, L EG I~ OF SU RGEONS I N LON DONj CORit.f;S l' 01\' DI '-:G 1\U; ~J U I.; R Ol-' '1' 11 1~ ltOYAT. ACAD I~MY 0 1~" ~C U~NC F;"i 0 1•" UEitt.IN j Ofo"' T.Hg R O \PA J~ ACA OI~ M Y O f" M I~ DI C f :"-o'E, AN D PJIJ J.OMAT III C SOC I RT \~ 0 1~' P A RIS j O li' T il E ACA I)EMY OF SC I.ENCES 01<" I'IIJ LA Og LPHI A, MO~Co "~, tUl LA!\GEN. A G E 0 L 0 G I CAL IN T R 0 DUCT I 0 N, BY CHARLES DARWIN, ESQ. M.A. F.G .S. &c. &c. COUitl:SrOKDlXC/ lfJHIDEl1 011 T l i"E ZOOL001CAL SOCif.TY. |