List of illustrations and page 158 caption, among the of four breeds of domestic fowl named, the original spelling of the breed "Houdin" is retained. Probably refers to the breed now more commonly known as "Houdan".
Page 56, unusual spelling of "chetah" retained. Probably refers to "cheetah". (A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat)
Page 87, "similiar" changed to "similar". (reason that nothing similar)
Page 158, 160, 173 captions. The original appearance and wording is reproduced in the html version. For the text version, more meaningful and grammatical captions have been provided as the original captions comprised a series of separate breed or species names used to label the animals in the illustration.
Page 179, original text "In early time" retained, although "In early times" is probably more grammatical. (In early time, before the invention of)
Page 256, "cordilleran" changed to "Cordilleran". ( the Cordilleran district of the United States)
Page 266, index entry "Ostrich, possible improvement of". Page reference changed from 108 to 168. Page 108 has no content fitting the topic while page 168 clearly has.
Postioning of illustrations:
Text version: illustration tags in the middle of a paragraph are moved to a paragraph break above or below.
Html version: