On the Occurrence of Branchipus (or Chirocephalus ) in a Fossil State, associated with Eosphæroma and with numerous Insect-remains, in the Eocene Freshwater (Bembridge) Limestone of Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight

Abstract

There is hardly a spot in the British Islands so well known to geologists at large as the Isle of Wight. Exhibiting, as it does, so many fine and varied natural sections in its cliffs, from the Wealden up to the Quaternary, it has attracted the attention of observers from the days of Sir H. Englefield, Bart. (1816), and since that date of Captain L. L. Boscawen Ibbetson (1849), of Dr. Mantell, Prof. Prestwich, Prof. Edward Forbes, Mr. H. W. Bristow, and quite recently of Dr. C. Barrois, of Lille, who has added considerably to the geological literature of the island. The sections and map of the Isle of Wight published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and accompanying Mr. Bristow's valuable memoir, leave apparently little to be desired; but much has yet to be done in order to complete our knowledge of the vast series of fossil remains which are constantly being discovered, especially the large collections gelded by the fluvio-marine series.