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found at the end of this note; meanwhile a few words 
about Brown and his work may be of interest. 
Captain Thomas Brown, M.P.S., etc., was curator of the 
Museum of the Manchester Natural History Society. He 
was a diligent student of, and writer on, recent and fossil 
Conchology. His work on the latter subject is a quarto 
volume of about 275 pages and 116 plates crammed with 
coloured figures. He says, in fact, that it contains 3,521 
figures, all engraved from drawings made by himself. The 
task was immense: the object most laudable—to bring 
into the compass of a volume descriptions and figures of 
all the fossils of the British Isles. Probably no other 
work accomplishes this so fully up to its date—it appeared 
in parts in various years up to 1849. For a general 
geologist the work should have been, and should be even 
now, very useful. Yet it has met with strange neglect. 
Everyone seems to have thought that it was nothing more 
than a compilation—copies of the figures of other authors, 
with nothing original in the way of nomenclature. They 
overlooked the fact that Brown had detected mistakes, had 
given new appellations when necessary, and in a few cases 
had introduced original figures and descriptions. Yet, so 
far as I have investigated, in the standard catalogues and 
indexes of names, there is no mention of Brown’s terms. 
I confess that the work has lain for years almost neglected 
on my shelves. It was Mr C. D. Sherborn, F.G.S., F.Z.S., 
the great bibliographer, who kindly drew my attention to it, 
and to the necessity of doing justice to Brown. There 
are others of his Brachiopod names which require 
notice ; and it will perhaps repay workers in other groups 
of fossils to look up what Brown has down in their 
departments. 
The same Capt. Woes Brown edited and annotated 
with many interesting remarks an issue of Gilbert White’s 
“Natural History of Selborne.” The second edition of 
