Author: Theodor Mortensen

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-28

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780265890158

Excerpt from Handbook of the Echinoderms of the British Isles After the publication in 1924 of my book on the Echinoderms in the series Danmark's Fauna I was invited to translate it into English, in order that the work might become more generally useful to English zoologists, to whom the language would naturally be a serious hindrance for making full use of the Danish edition of the book. I was very glad to receive the proposal and also felt quite willing to accept it. However, it very soon became evident that a simple translation would not do. The Danish work contains only the species found in the Danish and Scandinavian seas; but there are several species of echinoderms found in the British seas which do not reach the Scandinavian seas, and, therefore, are not included in the Danish work. It was clear that, if a similar book were to be written on the British echinoderms, it must be extended so as to include all the species occurring in the British seas - not the littoral forms alone, but also the rather numerous deep-sea forms known from off the west and north coasts, as they are already included in Bell's Catalogue of the British Echinoderms and in several other works dealing with the British echinoderm fauna. 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.