Catalogue Of The Cambrian And Silurian Fossils In The Museum Of Practical Geology

Author : J. W. Salter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330300664
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils written by J. W. Salter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils: Contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge Since the proof-sheets of the following Catalogue issued from the press, I have earnestly desired to write an Introductory Preface to it. Week after week and month after month have I waited in anxious hope of completing my humble task. But I have been greatly interrupted by a chronic malady which makes me incapable of any long-continued mental labour; and, in addition to this hindrance, a painful infirmity of sight almost entirely prevents me from consulting my manuscripts and memoranda, made during the Geological tours of many past years. To spare this continued infirmity of sight I now gratefully dictate the following pages to my young friend and assistant in the Museum Mr Walter Keeping. The old Catalogue of the Palaeozoic Fossils, by Prof. McCoy (now of the University of Melbourne), was a work of enormous labour and of very great scientific skill; especially when we consider the date of its appearance. Its publication was a real benefit to the Academic Student, a distinction to the University Press, and a great honour to its Author. In the clearness and elaborate accuracy of its descriptions of the several species the work is I think unrivalled, in spite of all that has been written since. But I wish to write historically, and profess not here to enter upon critical questions of scientific detail. In an advancing science like Geology, any catalogue, however good at the time of its publication, must soon become defective from changes of nomenclature, from improved classifications, and above all from the discovery of new species. Mr Davidsons great works on the Brachiopoda have thrown new light upon the divisions of that class of Mollusca, and very greatly changed the nomenclature of the genera and species. 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.