Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History) The Jurassic Flora I. The Yorkshire Coast

Abstract

FOSSIL plants from Gristhorpe Bay and neighbouring parts of the Yorkshire coast are so widely distributed among museum collections that Mr. Seward's descriptive catalogue of them will be welcomed by many museum curators in Britain and on the continent. But the volume is more than a catalogue; it is a history of Oolitic plant-remains of Yorkshire, exemplified by the fine series preserved in the British Museum. In addition to the data provided by this material, the descriptions are based upon specimens in many other collections which have been examined and considered. As might have been expected, the identification of type-specimens was a difficult task, and in many cases it has been found impossible to specify the type, which fact, remarks Mr. Seward, “has afforded a practical demonstration of the need of some system for the centralisation and cataloguing of all specimens which have served for the diagnosis or illustration of new species.”

Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Jurassic Flora. I. The Yorkshire Coast.

By A. C. Seward Pp. xii + 341; plates xxi. (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1900.)