A MONOGRAPH 



OF THE 



BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS. 



(SECOND SERIES.) 

 Part III. 



1. — Introduction". 



This Part concludes the description of the new species of Fossil Corals which have 

 been discovered in the Secondary rocks of Great Britain and Ireland since the 

 appearance of the Monograph by Messrs. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haiuie, of which 

 this work forms the continuation. 



It treats of the Corals from those Jurassic strata which are popularly known as the 

 Oolites ; and it will, of course, precede, in the arrangement of the volume, the parts 

 relating to the Liassic Corals, which have already been published. 



The following authors have contributed to our knowledge of the Oolitic Corals : — 

 11. Plot, 'Nat. Hist. Oxfordshire.' 1676. J. Walcott, ' Descr. and Fig. of Petref. found 

 near Bath,' 1779. Parkinson, ' Organic Remains,' 1808. W. Smith, * Strata Identified.' 

 L816. W. Conybeare and W. Phillips, 'Outlines of the Geol. of Bog. and Wales,' 1822. 

 Fleming, 'British Animals.' 1828. G.Young, ' Geol. Survey of York.' 1828. J. Phillips, 

 'Geol. of Yorkshire,' 1829. R. C. Taylor, 'Mag. Nat. Hist.,' 1S30. S. Woodward, 

 'Synopt. Table of Org. Rem..' 1830. E. Bennet. 'Cat. Org. Remains, Wilts/ 1837. 

 Fitton, "Strata below the Chalk," 'Geol. Trans.,' 2nd series, 1S43. Morris, 'Cat. of 

 British Fossils,' 1S43. M'Coy, « Ann. Xat. Hist.,' 1848 .several essays). MM. Milne- 

 Edwards and Jules Haime. ' Monog.' (Pal. Soc.\ 1851. T. Wright. M.D., F.G.S., 

 'Cotteswold Club Trans.,' 1S66. 



