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IX. A Monograph of the Ostracoda of the Antwerp Crag. By Gnorar Srewarpson 
Bravy, M.D, P.LS., CM.ZS., Professor of Natural History in the University of 
Durham College of Physical Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
Received April 19th, read May 15th, 1877. 
[Puates LXII. to LXIX.] 
AFTER examining and carefully studying a very interesting collection of Ostracoda 
from the neighbourhood of Antwerp, which has, with great courtesy, been submitted 
to me by M. Ernest Vanden Broeck, I regret that I am unable to point to any facts of 
distribution or grouping which can throw the slightest light upon the age or mutual 
relations of the strata in which they occur. The general character of the collection is 
about as different as well could be from that of the group described and figured by 
Professor T. Rupert Jones in his ‘ Monograph of the Tertiary Entomostraca of England.’ 
Indeed, of the fifty species described in the present memoir, eight only enter into 
Professor Jones's list—viz. Cythere woodiana, C. plicata, C. wetherellii, C. macropora, 
C. scabropapulosa, C. gonesii, Cytheridea pinguis, and C. miilleri; and of these eight, 
three (C. woodiana, wetherellii, and scabropapulosa) are of extremely rare occurrence in 
M. Van den Broeck’s collection. Under these circumstances it is obviously impossible, 
in the present state of our knowledge, to institute any useful comparison between the 
Tertiary Ostracoda of England and Holland. One noteworthy point in the collection, 
however, is this—the entire absence of freshwater species. Prof. Jones’s memoir 
contains eight freshwater species from the Eocene and Pleistocene deposits of England ; 
M. Bosquet’s Monograph of the French and Belgian species, on the other hand, has 
no freshwater species ; neither, to all appearance, have the smaller works of MM. Speyer 
and Egger. In the case of the Antwerp specimens it would appear that the fauna was 
deposited in water of a moderate depth, probably not less than 15 or 20 fathoms. 
In the following Table the number of asterisks roughly indicates the comparative 
abundance of the different species:—one asterisk denoting scarcity; two, moderate 
quantity ; and three, the greatest abundance. 
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