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in regard to fossil remains. Morris' "Catalogue of British 

 Fossils," issued in 1843, and the later edition in 1854, is most 

 useful to the working palaeontologist. The memoirs of David- 

 son on the Brachiopoda, Edwards, Forhes, Morris, Lycett, 

 Sharpe, and Wood on other Mollusca, Wright on the Echino- 

 demis, Salter on Crustacea, Busk on Polyzoa, Jones on the 

 Entomostraca, and Duncan and Lonsdale on Corals, are of 

 esj>ecial value. King's volume on Permian fossils, Mantell's 

 various memoirs, Dixon's work on the fossils of Sussex, 1850, 

 and McCoy's works on Palaeozoic fossils, all deserve honorable 

 mention. Sedgwick, Murchison, and Lyell, although their 

 greatest services were in systematic geology, each contributed 

 important results to the kindred science of palaeontology during 

 the period we are reviewing. 



In Germany, Schlotheim's treatise, "Die Petrifacteiikunde" 

 published at Gotha in 1820, did much to promote a general 

 interest in fossils. By far the most important work issued on 

 this subject was the "Petrifacta Oermanica" by Goldfuss, 

 in three folio volumes, 1826 to 1844, which has lost little of 

 its value. Bronn's " Oeschichte der JVatur," 1841-46, was a 

 vork of great labor, and one of the most useful in the litera- 

 ture of this period. The author gave a list of all the known 

 fossil species, with fidl references, and also their distribution 

 through the various formations. This gave exact data on which 

 to base generalizations, hitherto of comparatively little value. 



Among other early works of interest in this department may 

 be mentioned, Dalman's memoir on Trilobites, 1828, and Bur- 

 meister's on the same subject, 1843. Giebel's well known 

 "Fa a mi der Vorwelt" 1847-1856, gave lists of all the fossils 

 described up to that time, and hence is a very useful work. 

 The " Letlwa Geognostiea" by Bronn, 1834-38, and the 

 second edition by Bronn and Poemer, 1846-56, is a compre- 

 hensive general treatise on Palaeontology, and the most valuable 

 work of the kind yet published. 



The researches of Ehrenberg, in regard to the lowest forms 

 of animals and plants, threw much light on various points in 



