Excerpt from Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 15: 1904-1905 I will draw your attention in the first place to what may be regarded as the feature of the Marine Fauna of South Africa, or rather the key to the whole character of this fauna. It would apparently be a wild statement to say that this is intimately associated with the rise and fall of the barometer, but I hope to Show you that this is to a large extent the case, and I put it in this way in order to emphasise the Special features I wish, to bring to your notice. 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.