Volume 1

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John James Audubon ... and ... John Bachman.

  • John James Audubon
Date:
1846-1854
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    enabling us to compare them with genera and species existing in America. To Professor Lewis R. Gibbes, of the College of Charleston, we express our thanks, for several specimens of rare quadrupeds, and for his kindness in imparting to us much information and scientific knowledge. Among others to whose zeal and friendship we are most indebted, we are proud to name : Dr. Geo. C. Shattuck and Dr. Geo. Parkman, of Boston ; J. Prescott Hall, Esq., James G. King, Esq., Major John Leconte, Mr. J. G. Bell, and our old friend Issachar Cozzens, of New York ; Hon. Daniel Wadsworth, of Hartford ; W. O. Ayres, Esq., of Sag Har- bour, Long Island ; Edward Harris, Esq., of Moorestown, New Jersey ; Dr. Samuel George Morton and Samuel Bispham, Esq., of Philadelphia ; Wm. Case, Esq., Cleveland, Ohio ; Ogden Hammond, Esq., of South Carolina ; Gideon B. Smith, Esq., M. D., of Baltimore ; Messrs. P. Chouteau, Jr. & Co., St. Louis ; Sir George Simpson, of the Hudson’s Bay Fur Company ; John Martyn, Jr., Quebec ; Mr. Fo- thergill, of Canada, &c., &c., &c. In the course of this work we shall not indulge ourselves in the formation of new genera farther than we may find it necessary, and we think the genera at present established will include nearly all our species : we shall change no names of species already given, except in cases where their being re- tained would lead to error. We will endeavour to avoid a mischievous habit, into which many naturalists have fallen, who, by the formation of new genera, considered themselves entitled to add their own after the specific name, thus taking credit for discoveries to which they were not entitled ; on the contrary, as it appears ne« B