Note 23 — § 2. Description of the Skeleton. (Plate III.)

So determined, subsequent sets of bones transmitted from Mauritius, and from which I was privileged to select the most perfect specimens for the present memoir, got into the market and were sold by auction since the present memoir was in type, as bones certified by me to be of the Dodo. I have to express my sincere and grateful acknowledgements to those gentlemen into whose hands these lots have fallen, who have forborne their own advantage and refrained from rushing into print with figures from inferior specimens to anticipate the appearance of a Memoir communicated to the Zoological Society of London, January 9th, 1866, and notified in the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for January 1866 as destined “to be published entire in the Society’s Transactions,” and therefore necessarily awaiting the lithographing of “illustrations,” which every true promoter of science for its own sake must have desired to see as complete as the best-selected materials would permit to be given.—R. O., June 1866.