A MONOGRAPH | 
OF THE 
BRITISH FOSSIL CRUSTACEA 
OF THE 
ORDER MEROSTOMATA. 
PAR Ts de 
INTRODUCTION. 
Tue history of the Fossil Crustacua of the British Islands cannot any longer be 
spoken of as a neglected subject. 
Apart from the numerous papers thereon which have appeared in the various 
publications of the day, no fewer than ten Monographs of this class have been 
issued by the Paleontographical Society alone,’ and one by the Geological Survey 
' «On the Cretaceous Entomostraca,’ by Prof. T. Rupert Jones. F.G.S., &c., 1849 
“On the Tertiary Entomostraca,’ by the same Author, 1856. 
‘On the Fossil Estherize,’ by the same Author, 1862. 
‘On the Fossil Lepadide,’ by Charles Darwin, F.R.S., F.G.S., 1851. 
‘On the Fossil Balanide and Verrucide,’ by the same Author, 1854. 
‘On the Crustacea of the London Clay,’ by Prof. Bell, F.R.S., F.G.S., &e., 1858. 
‘On the Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand,’ by the same Author, 1862. 
‘British Trilobites,’ by J. W. Salter, A.L.S., F.G.S., 1864. 
i Part ii, by the same Author, 1865. 
Part i 3 1866. 
