A guide to the fossil invertebrate animals in the Department of geology and palaeontology in the British museum (Natural history) . cene deposits of Eadoboj in Croatia,and among these a cricket {Gryllacris Ungeri) is preserved ina most life-like attitude. Other Miocene insects are seen inamber cast up on the shores of the Baltic, just as they arepreserved in the hardened gums of later age from Zanzibarand elsewhere. Further information may be obtained from The FossilInsects of North America, by S. H. Scudder (New York,1890), and from the handbook by A. Handlirsch, DieFossilen Insecten (Leipzig


A guide to the fossil invertebrate animals in the Department of geology and palaeontology in the British museum (Natural history) . cene deposits of Eadoboj in Croatia,and among these a cricket {Gryllacris Ungeri) is preserved ina most life-like attitude. Other Miocene insects are seen inamber cast up on the shores of the Baltic, just as they arepreserved in the hardened gums of later age from Zanzibarand elsewhere. Further information may be obtained from The FossilInsects of North America, by S. H. Scudder (New York,1890), and from the handbook by A. Handlirsch, DieFossilen Insecten (Leipzig, 1906-07). BEACHIOPODA. Gallery Following on the Arthropoda, are exhibited the com-Ealt side ^^nest of all fossils, the Brachiopods or Lamp-shells. TheWall-cases important specimens contained in the Davidson, Sower by, 10 & 11. and Gilbertson Collections have already been noticed. (SeeTable-cases ? i n ^17-19. rr- ^^) [Also The Brachiopoda are animals that live in the sea, and Gallery XI. have a soft body enclosed in an external shell with two10 & 13-^16.] ^^^^^^^ (^^g- ^^)- ^^^^y ^^^^^^ ^^^^ something like bivalve.


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