Excerpt from Natural History, Vol. 21: The Journal of the American Museum of Natural History; Devoted to Natural History, Exploration, and Development of Public Education Through the Museum; January-February, 1921 A very considerable extension of the museum is contemplated Within a few years, in order to put on exhibition the large series of animal and plant fossils which we have already collected and which are at present in the hands of a number of specialists for monographic preparation. 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.