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Excerpt from On the Cranial Osteology, Classification and Phylogeny of the Dinornithidae
A first glance at the magnificently illustrated series of memoirs by Sir Richard Owen on the osteology of the Dinornithidae gives the impression that the whole subject has been exhausted; but a more careful perusal, aided by a comparison with the recent works of Lydekker (12) and Hutton is enough to show that the material at Sir R. Owen's disposal was far from complete, that skulls were assigned to the skeletons of certain species on purely conjectural grounds, and that some of the figures were even made up of portions belonging to different species. The reason of this confusion is that it is extremely seldom that the bones of a single individual skeleton, or even the parts of a single individual skull, are found associated together and apart from those of other individuals. 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.
