Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History)

Abstract

THE fourth volume of this great work, which has just appeared after an interval of six years since the publication of the third volume, completes the account of the unrivalled collection of fossil fishes preserved in the national museum, to which the author has devoted so much attention during the twenty years which have preceded his appointment to the post of keeper of the geological department, on the retirement of Dr. Henry Woodward. The issue of this volume, dealing entirely with the Teleosts, was eagerly awaited, not only by palæontologists, but also by all students of fishes, as great hopes were entertained that a revised arrangement of the bony fishes, the preponderating element in the recent fauna, would result in very considerable progress in our understanding of the inter-relations of the components of this difficult group.

Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History).

Part iv. By Arthur Smith Woodward Pp. xxxviii + 636, 22 figures, 16 plates. (London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901.)