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III.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale. Part I.—Ganoidei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Ramsay H. Traquair
Ramsay H. Traquair
Affiliation:
Keeper of the Natural History Collection in the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh
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I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Ramsay, Director-General, and of Professor Geikie, Director of the Scottish Branch of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for the privilege of examining and describing a remarkable collection of fossil fish-remains from the Lower Carboniferous rocks (Calciferous Sandstone Series) of Eskdale and Liddesdale. Most of the specimens were collected by Mr Arthur Macconochie, one of the collectors attached to the Scottish Geological Survey; and Mr Walter Park of Brooklyn Cottage, Langholm, has also willingly co-operated in the search, so far as the district of Eskdale is concerned. I have myself also had the pleasure of twice visiting Eskdale, along with Mr Macconochie and Mr B. N. Peach, and on these occasions I obtained a few specimens for my own collection.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1881 , pp. 15 - 71
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1883

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page 19 note * “Note on an undescribed Fossil Fish from the Newsham Coal-shale near Newcastle-on-Tyne.”—Nat, Hist. Trans. Northumb. and Durham, vol. iv. 1871, pp. 199–201Google Scholar.

page 22 note * Agassiz, , Poissons Fossiles, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 173Google Scholar.

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page 40 note * In the specimen figured, a tolerably large scale lies irregularly across the middle of the body; but this, being evidently a dorsal ridge scale, is clearly out of its place, and probably belonged to some other fish.

page 42 note * “Carboniferous Ganoid Fishes,” pt. 1, Palæontogr. Soc. 1877, pp. 38–40Google Scholar.

page 42 note † “Neue Uebersicht der in der Gaskohle und den Kalksteinen der Permformation in Böhmen vorgefundenen Thierreste.”—Sitzungsb. der Kön. böhm., Gesellsch. der Wissenschaften, 21 Marz, 1879.

page 43 note † Since the above description was written, a fifth specimen has occurred, with the body as destitute of scales as the previous four.