The paper by “Professor Liebig” on the “Fossils of the Trap formation” features in an article in The Linnean Newsletter and can be found in the online back issues of that journal, on the Society website. Apart from the 1 April date, the other clues are in the “author’s” name which reversed to “Biglie” and the fish flags up the French name for April Fool, “poisson d’avril”.
The paper by “Professor Liebig” on the “Fossils of the Trap formation” features in an article in The Linnean Newsletter and can be found in the online back issues of that journal, on the Society website. Apart from the 1 April date, the other clues are in the “author’s” name which reversed to “Biglie” and the fish flags up the French name for April Fool, “poisson d’avril”.