. Catalog of fossil fishes in the Carnegie Museum. Fishes, Fossil. Eastman: fishes from upper eocene of monte bolca. 347 specimen to which attention is now directed formed the subject of the earliest pubUshed contribution to the literature of paleichthyology emanating from the New World. The communication referred to is in the form of a letter written by the Rev. Francis Byam under date of March 31, 1755, and read before the Royal Society of London in December of that year. It is printed in Volume XLIX (page 295) of TiilosTmn^ n-'i-. Fig. 4. Mene\iwvce-hispanicB Eastman. (Type.
. Catalog of fossil fishes in the Carnegie Museum. Fishes, Fossil. Eastman: fishes from upper eocene of monte bolca. 347 specimen to which attention is now directed formed the subject of the earliest pubUshed contribution to the literature of paleichthyology emanating from the New World. The communication referred to is in the form of a letter written by the Rev. Francis Byam under date of March 31, 1755, and read before the Royal Society of London in December of that year. It is printed in Volume XLIX (page 295) of TiilosTmn^ n-'i-. Fig. 4. Mene\iwvce-hispanicB Eastman. (Type.) Being a reproduction of about one-half size of the illustration given in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XLIX, Plate IX, 1755. (Photographed by A. S. Coggeshall). the Philosophical Transactions of that body, accompanied by a steel engraving which portrays the original specimen. This engraving is reproduced in fig. 4, which is a little more than one-half the size of the original. As both the illustration and the published account of the fossil fish have been overlooked by modern ichthyologists, it may be of service to quote the following passage: 'To WiUiam Fauquier, Esq., ... As you have the honour to be a member of the Royal Society, I have sent you, by Captain Barrett, in a box directed for you, what I esteem to be a great curiosity. It is a stone, that was brought from a quarry, for a building in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eastman, Charles Rochester, 1868-1918; Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh : Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute
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