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1901 S. S. BUCKMAN— BRACHIOPODA 24I 



I PSEUDOGLOSSOTHYRIS Sm?L'£X, J. Buckman. 



PL XII., figs. 1—3. 



1845. TEREBRATULA simplex,/. Biickman, Geol. 



Cheltenham, Ed. ii., pi. vii., fig. 5. 

 1851. TEREBRATULA SIMPLEX, Davidson, Jurassic 



Brach., Vol. I., pi. viii., figs. 1—3. 



Remarks : — This species is so well known that it needs 

 no detailed description. 



The interest attaching to the present unusually large 

 example is that in maturity it shows certain small plications 

 similar to those exhibited by its contemporary, Terebr. 

 plicata, though not so numerous. These plications are also 

 noteworthy in connexion with the plicate, later-appearing 

 " Terebr. galeiformis " described by Mr Upton. 



Another point that may be noticed is that the brachial 

 valve of this specimen is rather more convex than usual. 



There is a rather interesting history connected with this 

 specimen. It was found at Birdlip by Robert Holland,* 

 of Cheshire, when a student at the Royal Agricultural 

 College, Cirencester, during one of the excursions con- 

 ducted by my father as Professor. This would be some- 

 thing like fifty years ago. The specimen attracted atten- 

 tion on account of its unusual size and condition. So 

 much so that some thirty years later my father had not 

 forgotten this find ; but he told me that this T. simplex 

 was one of the ornaments of Mr Holland's collection. 



Mr Holland subsequently became my father-in-law, and 

 so, through my wife, the specimen has at last come into 

 my collection. 



* Robert Holland was a cousin of the Gloucestershire Hollands, one of whom, Miss 

 Holland, made a collection of Liassic fossils, which was the subject of a paper by Dr 

 Wright in the Club's Proceedings. Robert Holland compiled the Cheshire Glossary, and, 

 with James Britten, of the British Museum, that useful book " A Dictionary of English 

 Plant Names," — both works published by the English Dialect Society. 



