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Excerpt from A Monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchia of England, Vol. 1 Another early work dealing with a special district is the Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, ' by John Phillips in which a few Lamellibranchs from the Speeton Clay are figured and others recorded. In 'an Outline of the Geology of Norfolk, ' by S. Ivoodward the more important species from the Norwich Chalk are illustrated, but descriptions are not given. In Fitton's great memoir (1836) on 'the Strata between the Chalk and the Oxford Oolite in the south-east of England, ' many species of Lamellibranchs, chiefly from Blackdown, are excellently figured and briefly described by J. De C. Sower'by; and most of the type-specimens are now preserved in the Bristol Museum. An account of the more important Lamellibranchs from the Lower Greensand of the Isle of ivight and of the iveald is given by Edward Forbes (1845) in a paper entitled Catalogue of Lower Greensand Fossils in the Museum of the Geological Society, ' Part I. Most of the specimens therein described may still be seen in the Society's Museum. 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.