A Manual of Palæontology for the Use of Students With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palæontology, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The present edition of this work has not only been entirely revised and largely re-written, but it has been so laiely augmented by the addition of new matter, that it may be considered as to all intents and purposes a new book. In the former edition, the final section of the work was devoted to Historical orS tratigraphical PaU eontology; but this subject has been entirely omitted on the present occasion, aa it is most suitably dealt with separately, and it has been treated of in a general manner in the Author sA ncient Life-H istory of theE arth. As in the former edition, considerably more space has been allotted to the Invertebrata than to the Vertebrata, for reasons which are obvious, and especially upon the ground that palffiontological students are, as a rule, much more largely concerned with the former than the latter. An attempt has also been made to give, as tar as possible, brief and general definitions of the more important and widely distributed families, or even genera, of the I nvertebrata, as well as, to a more limited extent, of tlie Vertebrata. In carrying out this attempt, however, it is clear that it was necessary to make a rigid selection of material, based upon what might appear to be the relative importance of different types. All conclusions upon this subject must, however, be matters of 154928 ,....
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