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I.—On the Structure of Trilobites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
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Trilobites, appear to have been among the very earliest recognized fossils, not only in this country, but on the Continent, their name having been given them by Walch, in his “Natural History of Petrifactions,” published at Nuremberg a hundred years ago.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 85 , July 1871, pp. 289 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1871

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page 289 note 1 Published in Berlin in 1843.

page 290 note 1 M. Barrande refers to what he believes to be the cast of the straight intestinal canal in a species of Trinucleus.

page 290 note 2 “Intellectual Observer,” vol. viii., 1865, p. 324. “Descriptive Catalogue to Chart of Fossil Crustacea,” p. 14, by Salter, J. W. and Woodward, H., 1865. Reports on the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea, British Association, 1864–70.Google Scholar

page 291 note 1 See Geological Magazine, 1870, Vol. VII., p. 291.Google Scholar

page 291 note 2 Dr. Bigsby's specimen in the British Museum not only shows the remains of three pairs of appendages united along the median line by a longitudinal ridge, but also what I have good reason to believe to be the remains of one of the palpi which has left its impression upon the side of the hypostome (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxvi. 1870, p. 487, woodcut, fig. 1).