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OBTAINED FROM THE AVON SECTION AND 
PRESERVED IN THE STODDART COLLECTION. 
By Arthur Vaughan, B.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. 
CONTENTS 
I Introduction. 
II Description op the Corals. 
Ill Description op the Brachiopods. 
TV Summary. 
I. INTRODUCT ION 
HE collection of the late Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.C.S., 
Jl F.G.S. , which, at his death, came into the possession 
of University College, Bristol, contains a large number of 
Carboniferous fossils collected from the neighbourhood of 
Bristol and chiefly from the Avon Gorge. 
This paper deals only with the Corals and Brachiopods 
in this portion of the collection. The other zoological 
divisions are either very poorly represented throughout 
the Carboniferous Limestone of the Bristol area, or are only 
abundant at a very few particular points of the series ; 
on the other hand. Corals and Brachiopods abound every- 
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