LIST OF TYPES AND FIGURED 

 SPECIMENS OF BRACHIOPODA 



BY 



S. S. BUCKMAN, F.G.S. 



Only a few words of introduction are necessary. The 

 value of all types and figured specimens, and the necessity 

 for their safe preservation are now duly recognised. The 

 recognition has come none too soon. Specialists in 

 particular have to regret the disappearance of many of the 

 types figured by older authors. And the more doubtful 

 the identification of a species, the more is the dis- 

 appearance of the type to be regretted, and the greater 

 would be its value if it could be recovered. A case in 

 point is the type of Ammonites Braikenridgii, Sowerby, 

 which has now been unfortunately lost sight of. It would 

 be most interesting to recover the specimen, to set at rest 

 the doubts as to its identification : hence its value is great. 



To preserve types and figured specimens the British 

 Association formed a Committee for their registration, 

 and the present list is a partial contribution towards the 

 end they have in view. And it is offered to show the 

 manner in which such registration is performed. For I 

 have followed in the main the plan adopted by Mr G. C. 

 Crick, F.G.S., in his "List of the Types and Figured 

 Specimens of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum." 



I have, however, made one innovation. In square 

 brackets I have added the date of each specimen, thus 



