Author: Hubert Lyman Clark

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781334216213

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Excerpt from The Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait, Vol. 10: Its Composition and Its Origin The present report, intended primarily as a contribution to zoogeography, has been made possible through the opportunity given me as a member of the Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington to Torres Strait in 1913. Every possible facility was afforded for studying the littoral echinoderms, not only at Mer, the largest of the Murray Islands, where a laboratory was maintained for five weeks, but also at Green Island near Cairns in northern Queensland, at Thursday Island, at Erub (darnley Island), and at Badu (mulgrave Island). These brief glimpses of the reef life at widely scattered points were invaluable in acquaint ing me with the Torres Strait fauna, but it must not be supposed that they were adequate to give a satisfactory knowledge of its distribution. They merely served to show that local conditions may play a large part in the distribution of species and to make one cautious in drawing conclusions from observations so hastily made. 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.

Download or read book The Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait, Vol. 10 written by Hubert Lyman Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait, Vol. 10: Its Composition and Its Origin The present report, intended primarily as a contribution to zoogeography, has been made possible through the opportunity given me as a member of the Expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington to Torres Strait in 1913. Every possible facility was afforded for studying the littoral echinoderms, not only at Mer, the largest of the Murray Islands, where a laboratory was maintained for five weeks, but also at Green Island near Cairns in northern Queensland, at Thursday Island, at Erub (darnley Island), and at Badu (mulgrave Island). These brief glimpses of the reef life at widely scattered points were invaluable in acquaint ing me with the Torres Strait fauna, but it must not be supposed that they were adequate to give a satisfactory knowledge of its distribution. They merely served to show that local conditions may play a large part in the distribution of species and to make one cautious in drawing conclusions from observations so hastily made. 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.