Excerpt from The Foraminifera of the Tropical Pacific Collections of the "Albatross," 1899-1900, Vol. 1: Astrorhizidae to Trochamminidae Though the fauna as a whole is a unified one, nevertheless the study of the present collections shows that there are in the shallow water about various groups of oceanic islands of the South Pacific locally developed species that are strictly limited. The species of deeper water, however, have a wide distribution. 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.