The Victoria history of the county of Hereford, EnglandAlthough Herefordshire as a border county has much of historical interest from a very early date, yet hitherto it has ha but one county history and that incomplete. The Rev. John Duncumb, M.A., F.S.A., commenced to compile a history of the county in 1790 at the expense of Charles, 11th Duke of Norfolk. The first volume was published in 1804, and the first part of a second in 1812, but at the death of the Duke of Norfolk in 1815 the work ceased. The materials collected by Duncumb, which belonged to the Duke's executors, found their way into the hands of Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1837, who issued a further installment of Volume II, which was already in type. This volume was in 1866 completed by Judge William Henry Cooke, M.A., K.C., F.S.A., who continued Duncumb's work, issuing a third volume in 1882 and a fourth in 1892. Since Duncumb's time more material has been made available, and therefore Judge Cooke's continuation is a great improvement on the original work.
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Read the Book - Free Download the Book - Free ( 7.9 MB PDF ) The majority of the chordate fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of the county belong to the armored group of Ostracodermi, which is classed by some authorities among the true fishes, while by others it is regarded as forming a class by itself outside the limits of the Vertebrata. Hence it is convenient to speak of these fossils as chordates rather than as vertebrates. Other species belong, however, to undoubted fishes of the group Arthrodira, which is included in the class of Dipnoi, or lung-fishes. There are likewise a few remains of other groups of fishes, mostly in the form of spines, whose systematic position is often a matter of difficulty. |