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COLOURED PLATES. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF THE 



FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 



WITH THE 



DESCRIPTIONS AND LOCALITIES OF ALL THE SPECIES HITHERTO 



DISCOVERED. 



DRAWN FROM NATURE BY 



CAPTAIN THOMAS BKOWN, 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 importance in investigating 

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

 Mineralogy 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 spoils 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 

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



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