Excerpt from List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 The object of the present Bulletin is twofold: To call attention to the richness of the United States National Museum in North American land mammals, and to furnish a summary of the systematic results of study in this field to the end of the year North America as here understood is the entire continent from Panama northward, together with Greenland and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. In no other museum is the mammal fauna of so large an area so fully represented. Some idea of the completeness of this representation may be gained from the following tabular synopsis. 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.