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Excerpt from Memoirs of the New York State Museum, Vol. 1: The Development of Some Silurian Brachiopoda In the case of rare species, or of meager material belonging to common forms, it is to be noticed that assertions regarding specific and generic characters are usually Very positive; while, with an abundance of speci mens representing many stages of growth and the extremes of individual variation, the descriptions are qualified, the latitude of genera and species is extended, and the points of relationship with allied forms are multiplied, thus binding a group of organisms into comparative uniformity, without anomalous differences such as often occur where the dividing lines are rigidly drawn. 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.