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IV.—A Fossil Insect from the Coal-measures of Longton, North Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Some time since Mr. John T. Stobbs, F.G.S., obtained a very well-preserved impression in clay ironstone of the wing of a Neuropterous insect from the rich plant-bed at Foley, near Longton, North Staffordshire, which he very obligingly submitted to me for study. The geological horizon is that of the “Peacock Marl” (i.e., the marl overlying the Peacock Coal), and it therefore comes from near the top of the workable Coal-measures.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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page 25 note 1 See letter by Mr. John T. Stobbs in Geol. Mag., 1903, p. 524.

page 26 note 1 “Recherches pour servir à lapos;histoire des Insectes Fossiles des temps Primaires,” etc., par Charles Brongniart; St. Etienne (Théolier et Cie), 1893. 4to; pp. 494, and Atlas, pp. 44, and 37 double 4to and folding plates. This accomplished naturalist, grandson of the celebrated botanist Adolphe Brongniart, died at the early age of 40 on April 18th, 1899, having, even in so few years, achieved much splendid work in fossil entomology. (See Geol. Mag., 1900, p. 430.Google Scholar)

page 26 note 2 These fine straight nervules, not being easily seen, have not been shown by the artist in the above figure of the wing.

page 27 note 1 Geol. Mag., 1903, p. 524.Google Scholar