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Excerpt from The Ancient Fauna of Nebraska: A Description of Remains of Extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, From the Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska The present Memoir, entitled "The Ancient Fauna of Nebraska," is founded upon a large and highly important collection of fossil remains of Mammalia and Chelonia, of the Eocene Period, from Nebraska Territory, which have been submitted to me for examination by the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. David Dale Owen, of New Harmony, Indiana, and Dr. Hiram A. Prout and Prof O'Loghland, of St. Louis, to whom I express my sincere thanks for the interest they have taken in my labors. To Prof. S. F. Baird, Dr. S. D. Culbertson, Messrs. Alexander, Joseph, and Thaddeus Culbertson, Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, Dr. S. G. Morton, Dr. John H. B. M'Clellan, Dr. A. H. Senseny, and Mr. J. S. Phillips, I am also obliged for the aid which they have contributed to the work. I embrace the present occasion to acknowledge the talent of the artists who have added so greatly to the value of the Memoir, by the excellent and faithful drawings which accompany it, viz.: Mr. A. Sonrel, of Woburn Centre, near Boston, and Messrs. A. J. Ibbotson, A. Frey, F. Shell, and I. Butler, of Philadelphia. 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.