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Identifier: geologicalmagazi341887wood (find matches)
Title: Geological magazine
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Woodward, Henry, 1832-1921
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.) Cambridge University Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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eum, H. KEEPING. Cambridffe. THE COLLINGHAM OB, SCAELE BOEING. Sir,—In the recently issued Report of the British Association for1885, pp. 388, 389, the original inaccurate account of this boringis reproduced, and I am credited with the alternative figures givenin a second column. Permit me to state that I have published no account of the boring,and that the figures alleged to be mine do not coincide with thesection preserved among my papers, viz. :— Gravel 21 feet. Lias 29 Ehsetic 13 Keuper Marls 688 Keuper Sandstone 205;- Bunter Pebble Beds 319 Lower Bunter 223 -pr /-Marls l\^ upper Limestone 434 Permian < -»«- i t <rn „„„i ) Marls 150 ^°2 l Limestone 68J Lower / Sandstone 20 Permian Marl Slates 118 139 (Breccia 1 Coal Measure Shales 12 2032The site is not in the parish of Scarl^<Tiincolnshire, but in Colling-ham, Notts. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., Late H.M. Geological Survey. 1 See Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. i. pp. 17, 18. . Geo! Mag. 1887 DecadeIII.VoIIV.Pl.il.
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G-, M.Woodward, del. et latli. Britisli • Palaeozoic Cookroaches ,Vest,Ne-.vman & C?ijtlJ> . THE eEOLOGIGAL MAGAZINE, NEW SERIES. DECADE III. VOL. IV. No. II.—FEBETTARY, 1887. (DIRXG-XISTJ^H, ^^I^TIOXiSS. I.—Some New British Carboniferous Cockroaches. By Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., P.G.S. rPLATE II.) THE early appearance in geological time of terrestrial Arthropodshas always been to me a subject of deep interest, and I havebeen fortunate in noticing several of these in the pages of thisMagazine and elsewhere.^ The oldest insect at present recorded is the impression of anOrthopterous Aving referred to the family Blattid^, obtainedfrom the Silurian sandstone of Jurques, Calvados, France, aboutthe horizon of the May Hill Sandstone (Middle Silurian). M.Charles Brongniart, its discoverer, observes that what is especiallyremarkable about this fossil, and which distinguishes it from allother Cockroach-wings, living or fossil, is the length of the analvein, and the narrowness

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