No. ^yr COLOURED Plates. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF THE 



FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY 



OF 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 



WITH THE 



DESCRIPTIONS AND LOCALITIES OF ALL THE SPECIES HITHERTO 



DISCOVERED. 



DRAWN FROM NATURE BY 



CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN, F.L.S., M.W.S., M.K.S., 



LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY, 



" Concurrent with the rapid extension of our knowledge of the comparative anatomy of extinct families of the ancient 

 inhabitants of the earth has been the attention paid to Fossil Conchology, a subject of vast I^^poRTANCE in investigating 

 the records of the changes that have occurred upon the surface of our globe." — Professor Bijckland's Geology and Minera- 

 logy Considered, p. 1 10. 



" The only true remaining Mf.dai.s of Creation." — Bergman. 



" Shells are by far the most iwroKTANT class of organic beings which have left their spoils in the sub-aqueous 

 deposits ; and tuty have been truly said to be the medals which Nature has chiefly selected to record the history of the 

 former changes of the globe. There is scarcely any great series of strata that does not contain some marine or fresh water 

 shells " — Lyell's Geology, vol. iii. p. 299. 



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