Excerpt from The Osteology of the Reptiles IN this book we have the chief results of Williston's half-century of exploration and research in the field of vertebrate palaeontology. Here we find the gist of his earlier researches upon the mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs of the marine Cretaceous of Kansas, the substance of his later and fundamental discoveries among the primi tive reptiles of the Permian of Texas, and the epitome of his last, comprehensive survey of the evolution of the Reptilia as a whole. The writing ...
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Excerpt from The Osteology of the Reptiles IN this book we have the chief results of Williston's half-century of exploration and research in the field of vertebrate palaeontology. Here we find the gist of his earlier researches upon the mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs of the marine Cretaceous of Kansas, the substance of his later and fundamental discoveries among the primi tive reptiles of the Permian of Texas, and the epitome of his last, comprehensive survey of the evolution of the Reptilia as a whole. The writing of this book was thus the culminating effort and achieve ment of his inspiring career.1 Death overtook him before the final revision and completion of this work, but happily not before he had finished the greater part of the text and had made for it with his own pen a large series of new and excellent line-drawings. In accordance with Williston's wishes the writer undertook to put his last work in shape for the publisher and to see it through the press. For the long delay since 1918 there have been too many causes to be profitably set forth in detail. The University of Chicago Press, which had published Williston's earlier books, repeatedly found itself unable to accept this one notwithstanding its good will, and private publishers proposed conditions that were not accept able, either to the Williston Memorial Committee, or to Professor Williston's family. After much unsuccessful correspondence in vari ous directions, the sad plight of Williston's still unpublished work came to the notice of Professor Thomas Barbour of Harvard Uni versity, and through his good offices the Harvard University Press now has the honor of publishing the Osteology of the Reptiles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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