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NOTE ON SOME OF F. E. EDWARDS' SPECIFIC NAMES OF 

 EOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



By A. Wrigley. 

 (Communicated by A. S. Kennard, F.G.S.) 

 Bead 10th December, 1920. 

 Many students of such, things are familiar with " Figures of the 

 Characteristic British Tertiary Fossils (chiefly mollusca) strati- 

 graphically arranged ", compiled by J. W. Lowry, with the 

 assistance of Mr. K. Etheridge and Mr. F. Edwards, and published 

 by J. Tennant in 1866. The excellent figures given on the four 

 folding sheets of this publication have often proved of great assistance 

 to collectors who have been unable to obtain larger and more 

 expensive works, but it is not generally known that several of 

 Edwards' species, not elsewhere described, are here adequately 

 figured. 



This publication is not included in the bibliography appended to 

 R. B. Newton's " Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards' collection ", 

 nor is it noted in the text of that work. Some of the specific names 

 given in the list of Eocene and Oligocene Mollusca in the Geological 

 Survey Memoir on the Isle of Wight (2nd ed., 1899) seem to have 

 been derived from the source under consideration, for they are 

 ascribed to Lowry. 



At the end of Lowry 's publication is a note : " It is believed that 

 descriptions of the Eocene fossils, the specific names of which are 

 within parentheses, have not been published. These names proposed 

 by Mr. F. Edwards are therefore used provisionally only, and the 

 shells under which generic names are also written within parentheses, 

 it is believed would more properly be referred to such genera, but 

 have not hitherto been published under those names." 



An examination of the names appended to the figures shows that 

 besides those in parentheses, there are several others of Edwards' 

 naming which have not been elsewhere figured or described. The 

 following is a list of these specific names, no attempt being made to 

 revise the genera. The numbers are those of the plates, and the 

 parentheses are given as originally printed : — ■ 



Lucina inflata [ii], 

 ,, spinulosa [ii]. 



Cytherea incurvata [ii]. 



Mactra fastigiata [ii]. 



Murex {hantoniensis) [iii]. 



Fusus (cymatodis) [iv]. 

 ,, Morrisii [iv]. 



Pyrula (angulata) [iv]. 



Cominella flextiosa [iii]. 



Cancellaria {fyrgota) [iii]. 



