278 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Mr. Melvill said it was desirable that cabinets should be 

 procured, and he was authorised by Mr. R. D. Darbishire to give 

 the sum of 21/- to a fund for that purpose, and would give a 

 like amount himself The Rev. H. Milnes and the President 

 (Mr. J. W. Taylor) also gave similar amounts. Dr. W. H. Evans 

 contributed 10/- to the same fund, to which further subscriptions 

 are earnestly desired. 



ON TEREBRATULA FAFILLOSA, Marshall, 

 By J. T. MARSHALL. 



The discovery by Mr. B. Sturges Dodd of further specimens of 

 this presumed recent Brachiopod, one of which, embedded in 

 a matrix of limestone comglomerate, has prompted further 

 investigation and consideration, with the result that its recent 

 origin must be considered untenable. 



Specimens have been submitted to Mr. Etheridge for his 

 opinion, who gives his impression that they are the Terebmtulina 

 striata of D'Orbigny — a cretaceous fossil, and adds : — " There 

 is no difficulty as to its stratigraphical position, the contiguity to 

 the chalk of Lincolnshire and the condition of the drift 

 materials being enough to account for their situation." 



On referring to Davidson's " Monograph of the British 

 Cretaceous Brachiopoda," where T. striata is described and 

 figured, I am bound to agree with Mr. Etheridge. It is an 

 exceedingly variable species, and has been described by 

 Palaeontologists under various names ; but Dr. Davidson states 

 that after a careful examination of hundreds of specimens, from 

 the fry to the adult, that the many variations in form may be 

 traced to the one species — viz. : Terebratidina striata D'Orb. 



My description of this species, with figures, appeared in 

 the Journal of Conchology for April, 1887. 



J.C, v., Jan., 1888. 



