From the vast and daily-increasing mass of Silurian literature, it
is impossible to do more than select a small number of works which
have a classical and historical interest to the English-speaking
geologist, or which embody researches on special groups of Silurian
animals--anything like an enumeration of all the works and papers
on this subject being wholly out of the question. Apart, therefore,
from numerous and in many cases extremely important memoirs,
by various well-known observers, both at home and abroad, the
following are some of the more weighty works to which the student
may refer in investigating the physical characters and succession
of the Silurian strata and their fossil contents:--
(1) 'Siluria.' Sir Roderick Murchison.
(2) 'Geology of Russia in Europe.' Murchison (with M. de Verneuil
and Count von Keyserling).
(3) 'Bassin Silurien de Boheme Centrale.' Barrande.
(4) 'Introduction to the Catalogue of British Palaeozoic Fossils in
the Woodwardian Museum of Cambridge.' Sedgwick.
(5) 'Die Urwelt Russlands.' Eichwald.
(6) 'Report on the Geology of Londonderry, Tyrone,' &c. Portlock.
(7) "Geology of North Wales"--'Mem. Geol. Survey of Great Britain,'
vol. iii. Ramsay.
(8) 'Geology of Canada,' 1863. Sir W. E. Logan; and the 'Reports of
Progress of the Geological Survey' since 1863.
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