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Excerpt from Fauna, Flora and Geology of the Clyde Area When twenty-five years ago the British Association met in Glasgow a Natural History Handbook dealing with the Fauna, Flora, and Geology of the district was issued to the members. Owing to various circumstances - the chief of which were the paucity of workers and the short time available for the work - the. Lists were far from covering the whole ground, and by no means free from errors. It was felt by many Naturalists of the District that the present meeting of the British Association afforded an opportunity for repairing many of the errors and omissions of the former Handbook, and for bringing to a focus the very large amount of work which has been done of late years in the Clyde area. It is not to be supposed that the present volume professes either to be a complete record or to be free from errors. The size of the volume and the speed with which it had to be put through the press render it certain that many errors have escaped correction, and a cursory inspection of the contents will reveal that many groups are not treated of, while others have only been studied during the last three years, ale. Since the idea of this Handbook was first mooted. It is to be hoped that the blanks will be as valuable for the future work in the district as the comparatively complete lists, inasmuch as they will show local workers on what groups they may most profitably concentrate their attention. 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.

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