Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations

Thomas Wright (1809-84) was a leading nineteenth-century monographer of the Mesozoic echinoderms ('spiny-skinned animals') of the British Isles. The task of describing the British Cretaceous echinoids (sea urchins) was originally to be undertaken by Edward Forbes (1815-54), but his untimely death thrust the responsibility onto Wright. This project was made the more difficult when the accumulated s...