XXV.—ON THE FOSSIL FISHES OF THE CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE 
SERIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. By James W. Davis, r.c.s., &c. &e. WuitH 
Puares XLU. to LXV. (Communrcarep py rae Earu or ENNIsKitiey). 
(Read May 15th, 1882.) 
CONTENTS. 
1. Explanatory preface, . 6 5 ; Page 327 
2. Classified description of the fossil fishes, i » 328 
3. Description of localities, ‘ : ‘ OOD 
4, List of genera and species with localities, : » o45 
5. Description of Plates, . ; : » 549 
6. Index to genera and species, . 6 5 >» welt 
1. ExpLANATORY PREFACE. 
The observations and descriptions contained in the following pages have been 
based on material derived principally from the magnificent collection of the Earl 
of Enniskillen, at Florence Court, Ireland ; a collection far transcending all others, 
not only in the extent and rarity of its contents, but in the number of unique 
specimens which it contains. Since the commencement of this memoir, the 
collection has been removed to the new Natural History Department of the British 
Museum at South Kensington, where it will, conjointiy with the twin collection of 
the late Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., form an unrivalled exposition 
of the Ichthyic fauna of the past ages of the globe. It is fitting that the results of 
the unremitting labours of the two noble ichthyologists, pursued in happy unison 
during half a century, should find a home in the national collection. 
The collections at the British Museum; the Museum of the Geological Society, 
Burlington House; the Museum at Bristol; the Dublin Museum; the Wood- 
wardian Museum at Cambridge ; the Museum of the Philosophical Society at 
York; the Museum at Clifton College, Bristol, and others, have been most kindly 
placed at my disposal, and, where necessary, specimens from those collections have 
been lent for illustration. 
It is with great pleasure that I express my indebtedness to those gentlemen who 
have aided my researches, amonest whom I may name, I hope, without any 
invidious distinction, my friends Dr. Woodward and Mr. R. Etheredge, Dr. E. 
Perceval Wright, of Dublin ; Prof. Hughes, of Cambridge; Prof. Sollas, of Bristol, 
and Dr. Grenfall, of Clifton College; Dr. Reed, of York, (who by his recent gifts of his 
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