Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
We possess only a few elements of the Insects of the Coal Period—Articulata are rare in these beds, and it is only after long research that we are able to collect sufficient materials for a special work on the Entomology of this epoch.
page 97 note 2 See papers by Dr. Anton Dohrn on E. Boeckingii, Paleontographica, 1866, Bd. xiii. p. 333, taf. xli. and 1869, Bd. xvi. p. 129, taf. viii.
page 97 note 3 See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1876, vol. xxxii. p. 60, pi. ix. fig. 1.
page 97 note 4 I possess some wings of insects very like those figured and described by M. Goldenberg, but more complete, and showing the reticulations of the wing, but
page 98 note 1 This fossil was discovered by M. Fayol, Engineer, in a bed of compact micaceous shale of the Upper Coal-measures of Commentry (Allier), in the Forestpit, at 5 metres 50 from the top of the great Coal.
page 98 note 2 An analogous observation has been made on fossil plants; one has noticed the impressions of leaves in the Coal-measures, in particular the leaves of Fern3 which could be detached from the surface of the shale and examined separately.
page 100 note 1 Except certain species which have very short wings.