British Fossil Brachiopoda (6-Volume Set)

About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection

Palaeontologist Thomas Davidson (1817-85) was born in Edinburgh and began his studies at the city's University. Encouraged by German palaeontologist Leopold von Buch, he began to study brachiopod fossils at the age of twenty, and he quickly became the undisputed authority. He was elected fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1852, receiving the Wollaston medal in 1865. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. Published between 1850 and 1886, this six-volume Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda became the definitive reference on the subject. Contributors to the set include distinguished scientists Richard Owen and W.B. Carpenter. It includes more than two hundred hand-drawn plates and a comprehensive bibliography. The later volumes contain a detailed catalogue and index of British brachiopod species, as well as supplements to the earlier volumes.

Contents

VOLUME 1

Preface
Introduction
1. On the anatomy of the Terebratula Prof. Owen
2. On the intimate structure of the shells of Brachiopoda Prof. Carpenter
3. On the classification of the Brachiopoda

Part I. The Tertiary Brachiopoda
Part II. The Cretaceous Brachiopoda
Part III. The Oolitic and Liasic Brachiopoda
Appendix
Supplementary additions to the appendix
Index

VOLUME 2

Part IV. The Permian Brachiopoda: Preliminary remarks
British Permian Brachiopoda

Part V. The Carboniferous Brachiopoda: Preliminary remarks
British Carboniferous Brachiopoda

Appendix and conclusion
Index

VOLUME 3

Part VI. The Devonian Brachiopoda: Preliminary remarks
British Devonian Brachiopoda
Conclusion
Index

Part VII. The Silurian Brachiopoda: Preliminary observations
British Silurian Brachiopoda
Conclusion

Index to volumes I, II, and III

VOLUME 4

Supplement to the British recent and Tertiary Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Post-Tertiary Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Tertiary Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Cretaceous Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Jurassic and Triassic Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Permian Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Carboniferous Brachipoda
On the Devonian and Silurian Brachiopoda that occur in the Triassic pebble-bed of Budleigh-Salterton, near Exmouth, in Devonshire

Index
Plates

VOLUME 5

Supplement to the British Devonian Brachiopoda
Supplement to the British Silurian Brachiopoda
Appendix to the supplements to the British Fossil Brachiopoda
General summary to the British Fossil Brachiopoda
Catalogue of British Fossil Brachiopoda

Index
Plates

VOLUME 6

Preface
Bibliography of the British Fossil Brachiopoda

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