On the Cambrian Brachiopoda of the Malvern Hills

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(i) Introductory. Before entering upon a description of the Malvern Cambrian brachiopoda which I have had the opportunity of examining, it may be well to make a few brief remarks as to our present knowledge of these fossils. Although the Cambrian rocks of the Malvern district have been patiently hammered over by more than one generation of geologists (among whom, of those now passed away, may be mentioned Prof. Phillips, Dr. Grindrod, Dr. Holl, the Rev. W. S. Symonds, and Mr. Hugh Strickland), the collection of brachiopoda which their labours have made known has been disappointingly meagre, both as regards individuals and species. In 1871 the full list, according to Phillips, was as follows :— Diagnoses of some of the above were given in Holl's paper of 1865(but the descriptions were scanty and the figures not very satisfactory; moreover, the species were in some cases admittedly founded on very imperfect material. It is unfurtunate, too, that the present whereabouts of his type-specimens is unknown. Prof. Groom has endeavoured to trace them, but without success. Davidson, in his monograph, rcdescribed the then known species, treating, however, Holl's Obolella Phillipsii as a synonym of Billings's Kutorgina cingulata ; but it is clear that, excepting the Kutorgina of the Malvern Quartzite, he had very little material to help him. Of the species in the above list, Lingula squamosa is obscure and of doubtful value : it may have been founded on fragments of Kutorgina I have not found any specimen to agree with Davidson's figure

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