Excerpt from The Fauna of the Chapman Sandstone of Maine: Including Descriptions of Some Related Species From the Moose River Sandstone In the year 1897 I began an investigation of the Paleozoic rocks and fossils of Maine, in the hope of gaining through their study a better understanding than was then to be had from published literature of the relation between the well-known upper Paleozoic of Europe and that of the interior of the North American continent. 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.