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ILLUSTRATIONS 



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FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY 



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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 



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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 OP THE ROYAI. PHYSICAL SOCIETY, 

 Ac &c 



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

 inhahiiants of the earth has been the atterition paid to Fossil, Conchology, a subject op vast impohtasck in investigating 

 the records of the changes that have occurred upon the surface of our globe." — PaoFESSoa Buckland's Geoloyy and JUinera- 

 log'j Considered, p. 110. 



" The only true remaining Medals of Creation." — Bergman. 



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

 deposits ; and they 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 

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



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