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eclnnata , puis-que toute 1’ ecaille en est garnie de petits piqnans. 
Elle est de Muttenz & se trouve asses rarement.” 
Linmeus, 1788, (Systema Naturae,) Yol. i. part vi., at page 
3,346, gives “ (Anomia) spinosa 29, A. testa spinis longitudine 
testae. Habitat - hactenus modo fossilis re pert a in Anglia. 
Solander.” If this fossil is Rhynchonella spinosa, then Linnaeus 
has priority over Schlotheim. 
Mr. E. T. Newton, F.GKS., kindly offered to make inquiries 
at the Linnean Society, and sent us the following communica¬ 
tion :— Be Rhynchonella (Anomin) spinosa. I have looked through 
the portion of the Linnseus collection likely to contain the 
Rhynchonella (Anomia) spinosa, hut it is not there. The account 
of the Linnaeus collection by Sylvanus Hanley,—“ IpsaLinnaei 
Conchylea,” 1855, page 135, alludes to Anomia spinosa (see 
below); and the copy of this book in the Linnean Society has 
been marked to show the specimens known to be in the 
collection, but there is no mark against Anomia spinosa. 
“ ANOMIA SPINOSA.” 
“ Not being sufficiently conversant with fossil species, I have 
“ sought the aid of our highest authorities on the subject. Mr. 
“ Davidson, who in knowledge of the Brachiopods is second 
“ to no man breathing, has thus succinctly answered my 
“ inquiries. ‘ I believe, from the very vague data given by 
“ Linnaeus, that the Rhynchonella spinosa (Knorr Lap. Diluvii, 
“ plate B 4, figure 4) was the species he designed. For it is a 
“ common English Oolitic fossil, which answers to the spinis 
“ longitudine testae, and has been figured by Walch (1768), 
“ Walcott (1799), and eventually as Terebratulites spinosus, by 
“ Schlotheim, in 1813.’ We have been unable to obtain any 
further information, but there is no doubt that Anomia spinosa 
was considered to be the shell now called Rhynchonella spinosa. 
John Walcott, (Descriptions and figures of Petrifactions found 
in the quarries, gravel pits, etc., near Bath, 1799,) gives (on page 
21) the following description of his figure xxxi .—“ Bibs smaller 
and more numerous than the last; the edge of the ribs is 
armed with rows of short spines, found without the spines upon 
the ploughed fields, with the spines when lodged in free stone.” 
He refers his figures from xxv.* to xxxiv., to Anomia , which 
