﻿A MONOGRAPH 



OF 



BRITISH FOSSIL BRACHIOPODA. 



BRITISH RECENT BRACHIOPODA. 



Since 1850 our information in connection with the recent species has vastly increased ; 

 and we are indebted to Mr. J. G. Jeffreys for the larger portion of that which relates to 

 those inhabiting our British seas. 



This is not, however, the fitting place to enter upon lengthened details, synonyms, 

 and descriptions, with reference to the recent species. We must therefore confine 

 ourselves to a brief enumeration of the species discovered up to the year 1873, and refer 

 the student for more ample information to Forbes and Hanley's • History of British 

 Mollusca' (1849), to Mr. J. G. Jeffreys' excellent work on 'British Conchology' (vol. ii, 

 pp. 1 — 2G, and vol. v, pp. 163 — 165), 1 and to the works of several other persons. I am 

 likewise indebted to Mr. Jeffreys for having furnished me with the habitat and range of 

 depth of several of the species ; in a great measure, from the Reports of the ' Lightning ' 

 and ' Porcupine ' Expeditions. 



It is a subject of considerable interest to ascertain how many of the species occur both 

 recent and fossil ; an inquiry that cannot be ignored in a work treating of the fossil 

 species of Great Britain. 



1 In vol. viii (1870), vol. xi (1871), and vol. xii (1872) of the 'Journal de Conchiliologie ' Mr. P. 

 Fischer has published an interesting series of articles on the recent Brachiopoda which occur near the 

 oceanic coasts of France, namely, Crania anomala, Terebratulina caput-serpentis, Waldheimia cranium, 

 Megerlia truncata, Argiope decollata, A. cistellula, A. (?) capsula, and Plafidia Davidsoni. 



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