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VIII.—On a Pygidium of Bronteus from the Devonian of Gerolstein, Eifel, preserved in the Collection of the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall in the Athenæum, Barnstaple.
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Many years ago the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall, F.G.S., of Pilton, Barnstaple, specially devoted his energies to the geology and palæontology of the Devonian rocks of North Devon, and in addition to a set of fossils acquired from him, now in the British Museum (Natural History), he left a series of local fossils to the Museum in the Athenæum at Barnstaple. This collection has been kindly curated by Mr. J. G. Hamling, F.G.S., of The Close, Barnstaple, North Devon, who takes a deep interest in the geology of the district. Mr. Hamling has called my attention to an interesting specimen in this collection which proves to be a pygidium of Bronteus, collected by the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall in the Devonian rocks of Gerolstein in the Eifel, which country he had visited many years ago in company with the late Mr. John Edward Lee, F.G.S., of Torquay. In remembrance of that excursion Mr. Hall had presented the counterpart of this fossil to Mr. J. E. Lee, and it was supposed to be in this gentleman's collection, but it cannot now be found. There is, I believe, a good cast of the fossil in the Townshend Hall Collection in the Natural History Museum.
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page 409 note 1 Thirty-one species being bifurcate, and nineteen non-bifurcate.
page 410 note 1 Barrande, J., Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême, pt. i, vol. i, 1852, Texte Crustacès: Trilobites, p. 843, pl. xlvii, fig. 6.Google Scholar
page 410 note 2 Op. cit., pl. xlvii, figs. 11, 12.
page 410 note 3 Kayser's, Text-book of Comparative Geology (translated and edited by Lake, Philip), p. 121, fig. 5, 1893Google Scholar; and Gürich, Leitfossilien, Taf. xlvii, fig. 1.
page 410 note 4 See explanation to pl. xlvii, under fig. 12.
page 410 note 5 Barrande writes— “Bronteus acanthopeltis (Schnur) was recently discovered in the Eifel by Professor Schnur, of Trèves. It presents the nearest analogy with B. thysanopeltis. It is distinguished, however, by possessing less than half the number of spines around the pygidium. It only came to our knowledge by the kindness of Professor Schnur, who was so good as to send it to us at the moment when our text was going to press.” [I cannot, I regret to say, find any figure of this species.]