A guide to the fossil invertebrate animals in the Department of geology and palaeontology in the British museum (Natural history) ... / With 7 plates and 96 textfigures.
- British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A guide to the fossil invertebrate animals in the Department of geology and palaeontology in the British museum (Natural history) ... / With 7 plates and 96 textfigures. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A GUIDE TO THE ANIMALS. This book is a guide to the fossil remains of Invertebrate Animals and to a few subsidiary collections contained in Galleries Nos. VII, VIII, X, and XI of the Geological Department. These Galleries may be approached by turning to the left, either immediately on entering the large Galleiy of fossil Mammals, or on reaching the end of it. Both these turns to the left lead into the long Gallery No. IV containing fossil Reptiles, out of which lead the four Galleries here described (See Frontispiece-Plan, Plate I). Gallery VII is the westernmost and is nearest the main entrance, and Gallery XI is furthest away, towards the east. The entrance to each Gallery is at its south end. The AVall-cases and Table-cases in the Galleries are numbered consecutively. No. 1 being, in the wider Galleries, on the left hand of the visitor as he enters, and the highest number beinw on his right. Following this order of the Cases, the contents of these Galleries are briefly as follows:— Gallery VII: Cephalopods (Ammonites, Belemnites, &c.). Gallery VIII: All Molluscs (except Cephalopods), Bryozoa, Brachiopods, Arthropods (insects, lobsters, trilobites, &c.), ringed worms, Echinoderms (sea-urchins, star-flshes, &c.). [Gallery IX: Geological Library and Students’ Collec- tion, closed to the public.] Gallery X: Coelentera (corals, graptolites, &c.). Sponges, Protozoa, ITants (these last to be described in a separate Guide-book). Gallery XI: Stratigraphical series of rocks and fossils ; Fonns and Structures produced by geological agents, and in some cases simulating fossils ; Tracks and Footprints left by various animals; and Collections of Historical interest.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24863841_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
