﻿A MONOGRAPH 



OF THE 



BRITISH FOSSIL CRUSTACEA 



OF THE 



OEDEE MEEOSTOMATA. 



PART I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The history of the Fossil Crustacea 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 Palseontographical Society alone, 1 and one by the Geological Survey 



1 '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 Estheriae,' by the same Author, 1862. 

 'On the Fossil Lepadidee,' by Charles Darwin, F.R.S., F.G.S., 1851. 

 'On the Fossil Balanidse and Verrucidse,' by the same Author, 1854. 

 'On the Crustacea of the London Clay,' by Prof. Bell, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c, 1858. 

 'On the Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand,' by the same Author, 1862. 

 - 'British Triiobites,' by J. W. Salter, A.L.S., F.G.S., 1864. 

 „ Part ii, by the same Author, 1865. 



Partiii „ 1866. 



