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Excerpt from A Monograph of the Inferior Oolite Gaasteropada, Vol. 1: Being Part I of the British Jurassic Gasteropoda
S1n0e the publication of the supplement to the great-oolite mollusca in 1863 'no attempt has been made to deal with any portion of the Jurassic Gasteropoda in the works of the Palaeontographical Society. It is true that the British [jurassic] Belemnites formed the subject of a Monograph by the late Professor Phillips, whilst the Lias Ammonites have had ample justice done to them quite recently by the late Dr. Wright, and the Jurassic (as well as Cretaceous) Trigom'ce by the late Dr. Lycett. But the Mesozoic Gasteropoda have been singularly neglected, so that, in point of fact, there has been no Monograph dealing either with them or with the Pelecypoda as a whole since Lycett's last work, published four and twenty years and to this long lapse of time we must add nine years since the date of the latest issues of the great-oolite mollusca. One might almost imagine that this admirable Monograph, in conjunction with the no less valuable Supple ment, had exhausted the subject of the Mollusca of the Lower Oolites, although professing to deal with the upper or Bathonianl division only.
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