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V.—The Fossil Insects of North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Samuel H. Scudder
Samuel H. Scudder
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Curator of Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History,U.S.
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The discovery of fossil insects in North America is of very recent date; even now, scarely a hundred specimens have been brought to light, and they have occured, with few exceptions, as solitary individuals. The Reports of State and provincial geologists, which have added so richly to our knowledge of the palæontology of North America, have hardly mentioned these fossils. As descriptions of them are scattered through many publications—doubtless difficult of access to English geologists— and as most of the specimens referred to have passed under my eye, I have prepared this general resumé of what is known and have accompanied it with critical remarks.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 46 , April 1868 , pp. 172 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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