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VI.—Fossil Types in the Bristol Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. Wilson
E. Wilson
Affiliation:
Curator of the Bristol Museum
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Of “those precious specimens called ‘types’ which must be appealed to through all time to determine the species to which a name was originally given,”Bristol Museum contains one hundred and eighty six distinct fossil forms. With the exception of a single Coal-measure plant, these are all the remains of animals, ranging in the zoological scale from the Reptiiia to the Actinozoa, and stratigraphically from the Silurian to the Cretaceous epochs.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 8 , August 1890 , pp. 363 - 372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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References

page 363 note 1 Flower, W. H., LL.D., F.R.S., Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Newcastle, 1889.Google Scholar

page 364 note 1 In the Bristol Museum, the type-specimens are indicated by a little disc of yellow paper marked Typ., and described specimens other than types by a similar disc of green paper marked Des.

page 364 note 2 It is unfortunately the fact that certain type-specimens have disappeared from the Bristol Museum.