he defines as Bivalves; with unequal valves, and never eared. 
The beak of the largest or under valve is greatly produced, 
and rises or curves over the beak of the smaller or upper valve ; 
and is perforated or pierced through like a tube. Figure 34 is 
Gryphea incurva, the others are all Brachiopods. Walcott 
gives no names to his fossils. 
The Lev, Joseph Townsend, (Character of Moses, Yol. i., 
1813,) page 372, states, concerning the Inferior-Oolite and its 
fossils—“ This rock is likewise distinguished by its shingle of 
white quartz, and by Anomia spinosa , Linneei, or anomia 
vcntricosa striata echinata of Knorr, who has left us an 
excellent figure of this shell in the fourth book of the 
second part of his valuable work.” Townsend appears to 
be the first person who gave the name of “Inferior Oolite” to this 
rock; (page 105.) “West of Winsley, near Stoke bridge, in the 
canal, we first meet with the Inferior Oolite, commonly called 
bastard freestone, which near Bath is unfit for use because it is 
soft and abounds in vacuities, although in other districts, as at 
Bainswick, it yields some beds of most perfect freestone. It 
everywhere reclines on calcareous sand, which is used by our 
cooks at Bath to sand their kitchens, and is procured for them 
on the hills behind Camden Place and Sydney Gardens. It 
beds on blue marl in which are two rocks, one called Yeovil 
Marble, the other Marlstone.” Townsend does not seem to 
know that Walcott figured Rhyncliondla spinosa. 
von Sehlotlieim, (Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte cler Yer- 
steinerungen in geognosticher Hinsicht,) Yol. vn., Pt. j. 
Taschenbuch fur die gesammte Mineralogie von Dr. Carl 
Caesar Leonhard, 1813, page 73, gives the following reference : 
“ Yersteinerungen in Jurakalksteine ; Terebrat . spinosus , Knorr, 
P. ii., i., T.B. iv., figure 4. Basel. The following is a trans¬ 
lation of von Schlotheim’s description of T. scnticosus and T. 
spinosus , “ Die Petrefaetenkunde,” 1820, page 268, 
“ 30 Terebratulites sentieosus.” 
Partly in very complete examples, with perfectly preserved 
tests, from Grumbach, near Amberg, in the Pfalz, petrified in 
chert and probably belonging to the Jura formation (6 Ex.) 
