Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Reprinted from University of Colorado Siudies, Vol. Ill, No. 3, Boulder, Colo., June, 1906. THE FOSSIL FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE FLORISSANT (COLORADO) SHALES By T. D. A. Cockerell The Tertiary lake basin of Florissant, Colo., is one of the most famous localities for fossils in the world. The plants and insects of a past age are wonderfully preserved in fine volcanic sand or ash, deposited in layers which readily split apart, revealing the specimens, just as they fell, in prodigious numbers. Green leaves and even branch- lets were torn from the trees, and insects perished wholesale, in a catastrophe which must have equaled that of Martinique. There were, in fact, several successive eruptions, as about a dozen different horizons are found to be fossiliferous. While some of these may represent a single period of volcanic activity, it is not to be doubted that considerable periods elapsed between some of the deposits. Perhaps the non- fossiliferous shales were deposited so -soon after the fossiliferous ones that no living creatures remained to be entombed, all having been destroyed or driven away; in this case the next fossil-bearing layer will indicate a new eruption, following after a greater or less lapse of time. In all eleven vertebrates, one mollusc, 610 insects, 30 spiders, and about 145 recognizable plants have been described from these beds. The insects were all described by Mr. S. H. Scudder, except a few plant-lice named by Mr. Buckton from drawings supplied by Mr. Scudder, and some hymenoptera recently examined by the present writer. The Scudder collection, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., contains probably at least another 400 species of insects. These were to have been described by Mr. Scudder, but he is no longer able to work upon them, ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.