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his work on the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devonshire, and West 

 Somerset, 1843, contained a great deal of original matter in regard to 

 fossil remains. Morris's " Catalogue of British Fossils," issued in 1843, 

 and the later edition in 1854, is most useful to the working paleon- 

 tologist. The memoirs of Davidson on the Brachiopoda, Edwards, 

 Forbes, Morris, Lycett, Sharpe, and Wood on other Mollusca, Wright 

 on the Echinoderms, Salter on Crustacea, Busk on Polyzoa, Jones on 

 the Entomostraca, and Duncan and Lonsdale on Corals, are of especial 

 value. King's volume on Permian fossils, Mantell's various memoirs, 

 Dixon's work on the fossils of Sussex, 1850, and McCoy's works on 

 Palaeozoic fossils, all deserve honorable mention. Sedgwick, Murchi- 

 son, and Lyell, although their greatest services were in systematic 

 geology, each contributed important results to the kindred science of 

 paleontology during the period we are reviewing. 



In Germany, Schlotheim's treatise, " Die Petrifactenkunde," pub- 

 lished at Gotha in 1820, did much to promote a general interest in 

 fossils. By far the most important work issued on this subject was 

 the " Petrifacta Germanica," by Goldfuss, in three folio volumes, 1826 

 -1844, which has lost little of its value. Bronn's " Geschichte der 

 Natur," 1841-'46, was a work of great labor, and one of the most use- 

 ful in the literature of this period. The author gave a list of all the 

 known fossil sj^ecies, with full references, and also their distribution 

 through the various formations. This gave exact data on which to 

 base generalizations, hitherto of comparatively little value. 



Among other early works of interest in this department may be 

 mentioned Dalman's memoir on " Trilobites," 1828, and Burmeister's 

 on the same subject, 1843. Giebel's well-known " Fauna der Voi'welt," 

 1847-56, gave lists of all the fossils described up to that time, and 

 hence is a very useful work. The " Lethrea Geognostica," by Bronn, 

 1834-'38, and the second edition by Bronn and Roemer, 1846-'56, is a 

 comprehensive general treatise on paleontology, and the most valuable 

 work of the kind yet published. 



The researches of Ehrenberg, in regard to the lowest forms of ani- 

 mals and plants, threw much light on various points in paleontology, 

 and showed the origin of extensive deposits, the nature of which had 

 before been in doubt. Von Buch, Barrande, Beyrich, Berendt, Dun- 

 ker, Geinitz, Heer, Homes, Klipstein, Von Miinster, Reuss, Roemer, 

 Sandberger, Suess, Von Hagenow, Von Hauer, Zeiten, and many 

 others, all aided in the advancement of this branch of science. An- 

 gelin, Ilisinger, and Nilsson, in Scandinavia ; Abich, de Waldheim, 

 Eichwald, Keyserling, Kutorga, Nordmann, Pander, Rouillier, and 

 Volborth, in Russia ; and Pusch in Poland, piiblished important re- 

 sults on fossil invertebrates. 



The impetus given by Cuvier to the study of vertebrate fossils 

 extended over Europe, and great efforts Avere made to continue dis- 

 coveries in the direction he had so admirably pointed out. 



