Geological Magazine, 1887, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Geological Magazine, 1887, Vol. 4 Palæontologists are largely indebted to Messrs. Meek and Worthen for their very careful researches in the Coal-Measures of Illinois, which have resulted in such large and valuable accessions to the fauna and flora of the Carboniferous formation. Not the least interesting of these has been the discovery of numerous organisms, which were first recognized and correctly described by them in 1868 as the remains of spined Myriapods. The earliest record of the discovery of one of these curious terrestrial Arthropods in England will be found in "A History of Fossil Insects," etc., by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M. A., F. G. S., 8 vo. 1845, in the "Introductory Observations" to which Prof. J. 0. Westwood drew attention to a figure (pl. i. fig. 11) in that work, representing a remarkable fossil preserved in a nodule of clay-ironstone from the Coal-measures, Coalbrook-dale, which he believed to be probably the remains "of some large Caterpillar furnished with rows of tubercles" (pp. xvii, 105, and 115, op. cit.). The specimen is preserved in the "Hope Collection," in the University Museum, Oxford (Woodcut Fig. 1). The next specimen was figured and described by the late Mr. J. W. Salter, F. G. S., eighteen years later, who named it Eurypterus (Arthropleura) ferox, sp. nov., and referred to it as "one of the most curious Crustacean fragments on record," and as "part of the abdomen of a Eurypterus" (op. cit. p. 87). It was obtained from the clay-ironstone of the Staffordshire Coal-field at Tipton, from the shale over the "Thick-Coal" (Woodcut Fig. 2). Mr. Salter states that "another specimen occurs in the Hope Collection at Oxford." So far back as 1859, Prof, (now Sir) William Dawson, K. C. M. G., F. R. S., described a Chilognathous Myriapod from the Coal-measures of Nova Scotia, under the name of Xylobius sigillarioe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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