Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2012
A copy of Mr Marrat's paper “On the Fossil Ferns in the Ravenhead Collection” having come into my hands, I was led to visit the Liverpool Free Public Museum in 1886, and again in 1887, with the object of examining this interesting collection, and while doing so I received every assistance from Mr Thomas J. Moore, the Curator, and Mr F. P. Marrat, to whom I take this opportunity of expressing my indebtedness for the many kindnesses I received while studying the Ravenhead plants. I have further the pleasure of acknowledging the privilege accorded me by the Museum Committee, through the kind offices of the Rev. H. H. Higgins, which allowed me to have a number of specimens sent to Stirling, where I could more advantageously examine them than in the Museum, where the literature of the subject is limited.
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page 394 note * Memoirs of the Geological Survey.
page 394 note † The Liverpool Museum contains specimens of Calamites Suchowii and Bothrodendron (decorticated) from this locality.
page 395 note * Contain beds of shale, or coal of inferior quality. Coal seams under 2 feet in thickness are omitted, not being orth working.
page 398 note * In the Ravenhead collection are several ferns which are specifically distinct from any included in this list, but are too fragmentary for any satisfactory determination.
page 398 note † In Abhandl. z. geol. special-karte v. Preussen u. Thüringischen Staaten, Band v. part ii.
page 403 note * A full synonymy is given here by M. Zeiller of this much-confused and many-named species.
page 404 note * Antedil. Phyt., pl. xi.
page 404 note † Carbon Flora, p. 346, pl. xix. figs. 1–4 (Diplothmema trifoliolatum). Vorwelt Pflanzen, pl. xi.
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