British Oribatidae (Classic Reprint) - Albert Davidson Michael

Excerpt from British Oribatidae
The reader will kindly remember that this book is the record of work done in the scanty leisure of a very busy man; it does not profess to be a monograph. A monograph should contain drawings and descriptions of all species of the group treated of which are found within the district included in the work; it should describe each species in all its stages, and it should give full particulars of the anatomy, development, habits, classification, &c. This book only describes and figures such species as I am acquainted with living in the district, and gives such information respecting them as I am possessed of - a very different matter from the ideal monograph; for I am not sanguine enough to imagine that my almost unaided labours, confined to such times as could be spared from the practice of my profession, and from other pursuits, during the last few years, have been sufficient to discover all, or nearly all, of the British species; or that my knowledge of their organisation, and of the various biological facts connected with them, is anything but a very small contribution towards what it is possible for the human mind to attain to, or even towards what will probably be known some day.
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