The American Palaeozoic Fossils

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Excerpt from The American Palaeozoic Fossils: A Catalogue of the Genera and Species, With Names of Authors, Dates, Places of Publication, Groups of Books in Which Found, and the Etymology and Signification of the Words, and an Introduction Devoted to the Stratigraphical Geology of the Palæozogic Book The name of the Group of rocks is generally abbreviated. Where the author, in the first instance, referred his species to the wrong genus, such generic and specific name is included within parenthesis immediately following the date of the publication. For instance, Delthyris is a synonym for Spirifera, and many species have been erroneously referred to it, such are written in this manner: Spirifera arenosa, Conrad, 1838, (Delthyris arenosa), Ann. Rep. N. Y., Oriskany sandstone. [Sig. sandy.] Specific names never begin with capital letters. The author has endeavored to quote from the original publications, and for kindness and assistance in obtaining access to them, he expresses his obligations to Prof. James Hall, of Albany, New York, Mr. C. D. Walcott, of Trenton Falls, New York, Prof. Leo. Lesquereux, of Columbus, Ohio, and to Mr. Thomas Vickers, the able and efficient librarian of the public library in the city of Cincinnati. A few of the works cited, however, were not within reach, and the references to these are therefore second hand. In the attempt to make the catalogue of names complete, within the scope of the work, the author visited several libraries and otherwise used reasonable efforts for that purpose, but he has no doubt that a few names have been omitted. Some of the authors of generic and specific names have not been familiar with the Latin and Greek languages, others have been careless in the exercise of their knowledge when forming the new words, and many names have been misprinted for want of careful proof-reading. For these and probably other reasons, the specific names under a single genus have been found with masculine, feminine, and neuter terminations, no uniformity has existed in the terminations added to proper names, and words have been otherwise incorrectly formed. So universally have these errors prevailed, that the author found in some Classes, twenty-five per cent. of the names defective. In a conversation with Prof. E. W. Claypole, of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, (a gentleman thoroughly learned in the Latin and Greek languages) shortly before commencing the publication, with regard to the etymology of words, and the importance of following the laws of language in making the genders of the adjective specific names correspond with those of the generic terms, he very kindly proffered his assistance, for the purpose of making all proper corrections in this regard. 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.