THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[THIRD SERIES. ] 
No. 116. AUGUST 1867. 
i 
X.—On Waldheimia venosa, Solander, sp. 
By Tuomas Davinson, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 
To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 
GENTLEMEN, 
A great deal of valuable matter in connexion with the Recent 
Brachiopoda has from time to time been contributed to the 
‘Annals,’ and consequently I would solicit space for a few re- 
marks with reference to the largest recent specimen, and species, 
of Brachiopoda hitherto discovered, and of which we are now in 
possession of the correct habitat. 
In the ‘ Annals’ for June 1861, Mr. Lovell Reeve mentions 
that I had communicated to him the discovery that either 
Waldheimia globosa or W. dilatata had been collected nearly a 
century ago by the illustrious navigator Capt. Cook, and named 
by Solander Anomia venosa, that the name only appeared in 
manuscript at first in the Portland Catalogue, but that a few 
years later another specimen had been brought to England from 
the same locality (the Falkland Islands) by Capt. George Dixon, 
and in the narrative of his expedition, published in London in 
_ 1789, a very excellent figure and description had been given of 
it. The designation Waldheimia venosa, Solander, was con- 
sequently adopted by Mr. L. Reeve and myself, as it was the 
earliest name given to the largest recent form of Terebratula 
hitherto discovered. 
On the 3rd of April of the present year, Rear-Admiral B. J. 
Sulivan kindly forwarded for my inspection and determination 
a Terebratula much exceeding in dimensions any I| had hitherto 
seen ; and I was informed at the same time that he had dredged 
it alive in the outer harbour of Port William, at the Falkland 
Islands, in the year 1843 or 1844. The depth at which the 
‘animal lived was from six to seven fathoms; the bottom on 
which the shell lay was a compact quartzose sand only, as no 
mud ever comes up with the dredge, although a stiff muddy 
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