This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...remains; we shall find an ancient world with indications of great completeness in all its parts, allowing of course for the absence of those soft and perishable forms which are not likely to be pre-served in a fossil state. The only fossils we know of in this district are those which were obtained when the railway was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...remains; we shall find an ancient world with indications of great completeness in all its parts, allowing of course for the absence of those soft and perishable forms which are not likely to be pre-served in a fossil state. The only fossils we know of in this district are those which were obtained when the railway was made over Wandsworth Common; there are: --Bivalve shells. Univalve shells. Astarte rugata. Cassidaria nodosa. Avicula media. Conus concinnus? Cardita. Dentalium. Cardium semigranulatum. Fusus trilineatus. Corbula globosa. Natica glaucinoides. Cyprina planata. labellata? Modiola elegans. Pleurotoma terebralis? Nucula amygdaloides. Pyrula tricostata. Pectunculus decussatus. Rostellaria macroptera. Pinna affinis. lucida. Pholadomya margaritacea. Solarium patulum. Syndosmya splendens? Voluta denudata? Chambered Shells Nautilus imperialis. Crustaceans Xanthopsia Leachii. Corals A Turbinolia. Fishes Vertebra and teeth of Sharks. Plants Wood, often pierced by the Teredo. These are principally taken from Dr. Mantell's list, op. cit. p. 135. For a complete enumeration of the fossils of the Tertiary strata, and also of the drift period, I would refer to Mr. Morris's ' Catalogue of British Fossils.' I have likewise given a list of the London Clay fossils in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. x. p. 410. The finest collection of Highgate Fossils is that of Mr. N. T. Wetherell, and of Sheppy Fossils that of Mr. J. S. Bowerbank. Foraminifera; Corals. 41 Foraminifera.--These, to begin with the most simply organized and at the same time the smallest creatures, are amongst the most minute and obscure of any now living in the seas, in many of which they swarm and form the food of numerous molluscs and fishes. They are mostly microscopic, though some attain the size of..
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