Excerpt from Illinois State Museum of Natural History: General Guide This volume is intended to serve as a general introduction to the collections Of the Illinois State Museum. The work Of preparing it has involved considerable investigation since although the museum has been in existence for sixty-three years and contains more than a hundred thousand specimens, no work Of this kind has been previously attempted. 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.