VOL. XV. (3) $. S. BUCKMAN—BRACHIOPOD 209 
A COTTESWOLD BRACHIOPOD: 
A FORGOTTEN NAME AND A NEGLECTED 
AUTHOR, 
BY 
Ss. S. BUCKMAN, F.G.S. 
(Read November 14th, 1905) 
The adventures of a species in the matter of nomen- 
clature, and the difficulty of arriving at the correct 
designation even of a well-known form, are particularly 
exemplified in the following case. 
In the year 1825, James de C. Sowerby figured, and 
named as Zerebratula acuta, a Jurassic species, which he 
said was “ presented by Miss E. Warne, who obtained a 
good series from ochraceous Limestone at Cleeve Hill, 
near Cheltenham, in 1820” (Min. Conch. y, p. 166.) He 
failed to notice that his father had, some years before, given 
the same name to another shell—the well-known Middle 
Lias fossil. Later he discovered this ; and so he gave to 
his own fossil the name 7erebratula angulata—so David- 
son tells us, but he does not say where or when Sowerby 
did this ; but it was in the Alphab. Index, p. 9, Vol. vil, 
of the Min. Conch., published according to Renevier in 
March, 1840." 
1 E. Renevier, Date de la Publ. des espéces ...... Conch. Min. ....... Sowerby; Bull. 
Soc. Vaudoise, 1855. My thanks are due to Mr C. D. Sherborn for kindly 
lending me a copy of this very rare and important pamphlet 
