COLLECTED PAPERS CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780259173250 Géneros: RBX Sinópsis: Excerpt from Collected PapersIn 1890 the senior author of the present paper published the first results of investigations begun in the hope that they might end in a complete revision of the American Paleozoic Ostracoda For vari ous reasons the realization of this hope has been greatly delaved and seems yet far in the future In the first place the effort To procure material for study proved so overwhelmingly successful that the task assumed proportions quite beyond expectations The unusual dith culty of the subject was recognized in the beginning but with this unsuspected expansion of the material its difficulties seemed to grow greater and greater while the mere description of the new and the revision of the old species has itself become a formidable piece of work Another distressing obstacle was the necessity of finding some more accurate and satisfactory yet cheap method of illustration than had been employed hitherto After long experimentation the writers believe they have finally solved the problem to the extent of offering at least Serviceable if not uniformly artistic representations of the objects However these difficulties might all have been overcome long before this had not other more imperative duties consumed by far the greater part of the time that has elapsed since 1890 With this unavoidable drawback even future progress on the monographical treatment of the Paleozoic Ostracoda must necessarily continue to be somewhat sporadicAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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 howe