Abstract
PLÆONTOLOGISTS are now aware that, at the epoch when the coal beds of the Carboniferous Period were deposited, the arthropods were the first of all living creatures to gain the conquest of the air—these insects bore sway in that silent domain which as yet the birds did not dispute with them. This most ancient world of insects has been revealed by the progress of study as of so special a character that it cannot be brought within the narrow limits of the zoological classifications of the present day.
A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures.
By Dr. Herbert Bolton. Part 1. Pp. 80 + 4 plates. Part 2. Pp. viii + 81-156 + plates 5–10. (London: Palæontographical Society, 1921–1922.)
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PRUVOST, P. A Monograph of the Fossil Insects of the British Coal Measures . Nature 116, 526–528 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116526a0
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