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SUPPLEMENT TO THE BRITISH 



Brachiopocla are both specifically and individually numerous. 1 Those from Spain and 

 from other parts of the world have not yet been sufficiently collected and studied. 

 Several very interesting species have been found in Australia, especially at Mount 

 Gambier, by the Rev. J. E. Woods. In that locality occurs the shell I described in the 

 ' Geologist ' for December, 1862 (vol. vi, p. 446, pi. xxiv, fig. 19), under the designation 

 of Waldheimia Garibaldiana, and at the time erroneously believed to have been found 

 in the Island of Malta. It occurs in company with T. compta. 



I should scarcely have considered it necessary to have referred again to this portion of 

 my work, since Mr. S. Wood has also completed his admirable Monograph, published 

 by the Palseontographical Society, by a description of the Brachiopoda from the Crag, 

 had I not determined to add to my Supplement everything that could not be stated in 

 the already published work. 



1. Lingula tenuis, Sotv. Dav., Tert. Mon., PI. I, fig. 12 ; and Appendix, PI. A, figs. 3, 



4, 5 ; Supplement, PI. II, figs. 6—8. 



Subsequent to the publication of my description and figures of this species many 

 very fine examples have been found by Mr. C. J. H. Meyer in the London Clay (Bognor 

 series) during the excavating of the new docks at Portsmouth. These show that when 

 quite perfect the shell was broadest near the beak, and from that point tapered gradually 

 towards the front, this last-named portion of the shell being either nearly straight or 

 gently rounded. Young specimens and a dwarf variety have been likewise discovered by 

 Mr. Meyer, rather plentifully, in the upper parts of the London Clay at Sydenham Hill, 

 near London. This last is almost regularly oval, its greatest breadth being near the beak. 



In vol. xxvii, p. 76, of the ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,' Mr. Meyer 

 describes the bed wherein the Lingula occur as the " Sands with Lingida!' Some of the 

 specimens attained seven lines in length by three in breadth, and the sides are in some 

 examples remarkably sub-parallel during the greater portion of their length. The largest 

 .specimen of L. tenuis that has come under my notice slightly exceeded half an inch in 

 length, by a little less that a quarter of an inch in breadth. 



Mr. Wetherell informs me that L. tenuis is rare at Highgate Archway, that it was found 

 in the Well at the Lower Heath, Hampstead ; 2 also at Child's Hill, near Hampstead ; 

 Finchley ; Brentwood ; Cuffell ; Nunsham ; Bognor, &c. 



1 In vol. vii of the ' Geol. Magazine,' 1870, I described and figured fifty-eight species of Italian 

 Tertiary Brachiopoda, and since that period Prof. Seguenza has discovered several others. 



2 Trans. Geol. Soc, London, sec. 2, vol. v, p. 131. 



