Summary
This Catalogue includes in addition to the types proper, those specimens which have been figured and described as examples of species previously defined.
The names at present accepted are printed in Clarendon type, the synonyms in italics. After a considerable portion of the work had been printed, it was suggested to me that it would have been better to have given only the names under which the specimens were described, or at any rate to have given greater prominence to these rather than to the names now accepted. In some ways this method would certainly have been more convenient than the one adopted.
In order to make the work more complete, I have gone through a large amount of palaeontological literature, and have in this way found in the Museum many types whose existence here was previously unsuspected. Nevertheless, there can, I think, be no doubt that others will in time be discovered.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1891