Author: Hermann Burmeister

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781332305346

Excerpt from The Organization of Trilobites: Deduced From Their Living Affinities, With Systematic Review of the Species Hitherto Described The Treatise on the Organization and Classification of Trilobites, by Professor, Burmeister, now presented to the members of the Ray Society, is not merely a translation of the original German edition published at Berlin in 1843, but a new edition, revised, augmented, and in part rewritten by the distinguished Author himself, who has most kindly endeavoured to render the Ray version as complete as possible by embodying all the information which had accumulated since the publication of the German edition. Through the aid of Professor Burmeister the Society has been enabled to procure impressions from the original and very beautiful plates. These have also been revised by the Author, and several important figures added. The translation has been executed, under the superintendence of the Editors, by Dr. Hermann Mix. In the revision of the first section of the work, they have been kindly assisted by Professor Ansted. The translation, especially of the systematic part, is nearly a literal one; such being, in the opinion of the Editors, most likely to convey the sense of the Author, although elegance of expression may occasionally have thereby been sacrificed. They have carefully abstained from altering any expression of the Author's meaning, and even where they might dissent from his views, have preferred silence to the intrusion of their own opinions. The notes they have added are all of an explanatory or supplementary nature, and especially such as may prove useful to the English reader. The Editors feel that they need not dwell on the great importance of the volume which has been committed to their charge. As a dissertation on a most difficult tribe of fossil Articulata by an eminent Zoologist, deeply versed in the organization of the great class to which it belongs, the work assumes an importance which can rarely be accorded to palaeontological essays treating of the remains of Invertebrate Animals. 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."