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To Prof. W. King we are greatly indebted for many excellent remarks on the 

 Brachiopoda, which have added very materially to our knowledge of the class. His 

 first paper, published in 1846, was followed in quick succession by several others ; these 

 culminated in the production of the valuable Monograph ' On English Permian Possils.' 

 To him we owe several excellent genera, and in particular for Waldheimia, Dielasma, 

 Megerlia, Camano-phoria, Strop/ialosia, and some others. 



To Prof. James Hall also we are indebted for the introduction of numerous genera, 

 which will be found recorded in the sequel. In 1847, Alcide d'Orbigny, a very eminent 

 French Palaeontologist, added also largely to our knowledge of the Brachiopoda. He 

 originated several good genera, now generally adopted. 



These most valuable investigations have been steadily prosecuted by a large 

 number of able Palaeontologists who have also from time to time proposed schemes of 

 classification. Space unfortunately will not admit of here recording in detail the 

 honoured names of all those who have contributed to the knowledge we at 

 present possess upon this important subject, but we cannot pass under silence those 

 of MM. d'Archiac, Abich, de Blainville, Billings, Barrande, Brogger, Barrois, 

 Bosquet, Beyrich, Bayle, Bronn, Buckman, von Buch, Canavari, Coquand, Carpenter, 

 Defrance, Deslongchamps (father and son), Dalman, Douville, Derby, Deshayes, Dall, 

 Dittmar, d'Eichwald, Etheridge, Eavre, Geinitz, Glass, Goldfuss, Gruenewaldt, Gemellaro, 

 von Hagenow, Hall, Hisinger, Haas, von Helmersen, Hoeninghaus, Jeffreys, de Koninck, 

 Kutorga, von Keyserling, Kayser, Klipstein, Linne, Lindstrom, Linnarrson, de Loriol, 

 Lamarck, 1 Lundgren, Laube, Leymerie, Meek, M'Coy, Morris, Meneghini, Moller, Miller, 

 Moore, Marcou, W. Martin, Michelotti, Massalongo, Nicholson, Nilsson, Oehlert, Ooster, 

 Oppel, d'Orbigny, Pander, Philippi, Phillips, Pictet, Parona, Pahlen, Pusch, Portlock, 

 Quenstedt, Roemer, Rathbun, Rouillier, Reuss, Salter, Suess, Sandberger, Seguenza,Schlo- 

 theirn, Schloenbach, Semenow, Sharpe, Schrenk, Schnur, Shumard, Schmidt, Schauroth, 

 Stoliczka, Szajnocha, Steininger, Trautschold, Tate, Torrubia, Toula, Uhlig, de Verneuil, 

 Volborth, Valenciennes, S. P. Woodward, Waagen, Wahlenberg, Winchell, Whitefield, 

 White, Worthen, Whiteheaves, Zittel, Zeiten, Zugmayer, Zeuschner, Zejszner, and many 

 others whose names, with references to their works, will be found recorded in the 

 Brachiopod Bibliography. 2 



1 Lamarck's or Valenciennes' types of Brachiopoda are partly in the possession of the Museum of the 

 Jardin des Plantes. Those that were in the collection of the late Baron Delessert have been added to the 

 Museum of Geneva ; they were described and figured by myself in the ' Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' 

 2nd series, vol. v, 1850. 



2 Among the largest and most important works on the Brachiopoda we must mention that by 

 Joachim Barrande on the species collected by himself from the Silurian rocks of Bohemia. In that 

 wonderful and monumental work the author figures 26 genera and G40 species of Brachiopoda, filling 

 153 quarto plates. No country or formation hitherto examined and of so limited an extent has afforded so 

 large a number and such a variety of species. M. Barrande with princely generosity bequeathed the 

 whole of his valuable collections to the Museum of Prague, where they can be consulted at any time. 



The large and important collections assembled by M. E. de Verneuil during his many years of travel, 



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