Excerpt from Observations on Bell's System of "Visible Speech" For the Deaf Mute American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, Visi ble Speech, by A. Graham Bell, January, 1872, p. 1, to whom the writer is indebted for the illustra tions and the facts contained in these papers in reference to his father's method. (a. Melville Bell, Professor of Vocal Physiology, and author of a new species of phonetic writing.) 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.