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

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

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.

XXI.—Further Researches among the Crustacea and Arachnida of the Carboniferous Rocks of the Scottish Border

1882 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Peach
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fresh Material

I have again been privileged by Professor A. Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, in being allowed to bring before this Society the results of a further study of the Crustacea and Arachnida obtained by the Geological Survey from the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the Scottish Border. Since my former papers on those subjects were read, a considerable amount of fresh material has come to light, which has allowed of many species, which were formerly represented by fragmentary specimens, to be more fully described, and several altogether new to science to be added to our former list.

VIII.—Note on a Species of Scymnus from the Upper Tertiary Formation of New Zealand

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Small Tooth ◽  
Royal Dublin Society ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

In a Memoir recently published “On the Fossil Fish Remains of the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary Formations of New Zealand” (Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. iv. ser. II. p. 11, pl. vi. fig. 22) there is described a small tooth as an immature example of Carcharodon angustidens, Ag. The specimen was included amongst a large number of others forwarded for examination by Sir James Hector, Director-General of the Geological Survey of New Zealand; it is a small tooth, exquisitely preserved, and does not exhibit any signs of abrasion by use, which led to its being provisionally considered as the tooth of a young shark, and its form and minutely serrated margin appeared to indicate that its relationship was with Carcharodon.

IV.—On some new Crustaceans from the Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Eskdale and Liddesdale

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Peach
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Cement Stone ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Almost All

By the permission of Professor A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, and Professor Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, I have been permitted to describe several new Crustaceans which have come under my notice in my capacity of Acting Palæontologist to the Scotch Survey. They are from the cement-stone group of the Calciferous Sandstone series of the Scottish border, and, with a very few exceptions, were got from one locality on the river Esk, about four miles south of Langholm, in Dumfriesshire, and were almost all collected by A. Macconochie, Fossil Collector to the Geological Survey of Scotland. They belong to two orders, viz., Phyllopoda and Decapoda.

scholarly journals IV.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland from Shales exposed on the Shore near Gullane, East Lothian

1908 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
Fish Remains

In the year 1903 Mr Macconochie made an interesting collection of fossil fish-remains from beds of Lower Carboniferous age exposed on the seashore near Gullane, in East Lothian, which were submitted to me for determination by the Director of the Geological Survey. Accordingly, I prepared a preliminary account of these remains, which was published in the Summary of Progress for the year above mentioned.

scholarly journals XXXII.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland

1900 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The South ◽  
Additional Work ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

In the autumn of last year (1897), Sir A. Geikie, F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey, kindly placed in my hands for description an important collection of fossil fish-remains from the Silurian rocks of the Lesmahagow district, which had been made by Messrs Macconochie and Tait, collectors to the Survey. I accordingly prepared a brief report on these fishes, which was included by the Director-General in hisSummary of Progressfor that year.The collection was, however, considerably increased by additional work on the part of Mr Tait in the spring of the present year (1898). Many better and more complete specimens were procured, and I was able to define one new genus and species, which had previously been represented only by undeterminable fragments. The results gained by the examination of the entire collection I now propose, with Sir Archibald Geikie's sanction, to lay before this Society in detailed form.

scholarly journals XV.—On some new Species of Fossil Scorpions from the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland and the English Borders, with a Review of the Genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 397-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Peach
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
The South ◽  
Coal Measures

In the progress of the Geological Survey of the South of Scotland, specimens referable to the genus Eoscorpius have been gradually accumulating. In 1876 J. Bennie, Fossil Collector to the Survey, obtained an example from the Coal-measures of Fife. Since then fragments have been disinterred by him and by A. Macconochie, also Fossil Collector to the Survey, from the Calciferous Sandstone series in the counties of Edinburgh, Berwick, Roxburgh, Dumfries, and Northumberland and Cumberland. It was not till the spring of last year (1880) that they began to be found in such a state as to necessitate a description of the fossils. In the summer of that year A. Macconochie obtained an almost entire example from the neighbourhood of Langholm, in Dumfriesshire. This year (1881) J. Bennie has secured several good though fragmentary specimens from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, while A. Macconochie has sent in several from the counties of Berwick and Northumberland. In my capacity of Acting Palæontologist, I have had an opportunity of studying these remains, and by the permission of A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., Director General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and Professor A. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, I have been allowed to describe them.

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