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Excerpt from Mammals of Panama: With Thirty-Nine Plates
The following report contains an account of all the mammals known to occur in Panama. It is. Based mainly on the material gathered in the course of the biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone, undertaken in 1910 by the Smithsonian Institution with the approval of the President of the United States and in cooperation with various government departments including the Department Of Agriculture and the War Department. The initiation of the survey at this time was due to a realization on the part of naturalists Of the importance of making field investigations before the completion Of the Panama Canal, when disturbed natural conditions would be likely to complicate problems of geographic distribution in this important region. While the author was assigned to investigate the mammals and birds, and somewhat incidentally the reptiles and amphibians, the personnel of the survey also included field naturalists represent ing various other branches Of natural history. In the preparation of the present report specimens Of mammals in various museums have been examined and published records referred to in order to bring together as complete data on the subject as practicable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
