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I.—Note on a Collection of Carboniferous Trilobites from the Banks of the Hodder, near Stonyhurst, Lancashire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
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Earlyin1893, the Rev. G. G. H. Pollen, S.J., of Stonyhurst College, was so kind as to send up to me for examination a collection of Carboniferous fossils, obtained by himself with the assistance of Mr. William van Waterschoot van der Gracht, Jur. Stud., who during his residence at Stonyhurst paid much attention to the geology of the neighbourhood.

The collection proved to be an extremely interesting one, and Mr. Pollen most kindly requested me to keep a selection of the specimens for the Museum, only returning him a named duplicate collection for Stonyhurst. Subsequently Mr. van der Gracht sent me all the specimens he had himself collected, so that I was able to study a very fair series of the fossils from these beds.

The specimens sent up were carefully examined by Mr. E. B. Newton, F.G.S., and were found to comprise as follows:—Fragments of Vertebrata (possibly phalangeal bones of a small reptile?), also a part of jaw of a small Fish ? (not determined).

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 11 , November 1894 , pp. 481 - 489
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1894

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page 482 note 1 Proceedings Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 1890, vol. xi. pt. 3.Google Scholar

page 482 note 2 Both these sets of beds are considered to be absent on the Hodder.

page 482 note 3 Both these sets of beds are considered to be absent on the Hodder.

page 483 note 1 I retain the term “Yoredale series” here in copying Mr. Pollen's note, although we may follow Mr. Tiddemaninconsidering them to be lower down in the series than was supposed twenty years ago, when the country was originally mapped by the Geological Survey.

page 485 note 1 This form may prove to belong to quite another group of organisms. It is at present under examination by Dr. Hinde, who has kindly consented to study it microscopically.

page 486 note 1 See Mon. Pal. Soc. Carb. Trilob., 1883, p. 22, pl. iv.Google Scholar

page 486 note 2 It is probable that this interesting little species may hereafter prove to be an, immature form of some larger Trilobite, at present unknown, from these beds. Meantime it seems more convenient to treat it as distinct, and to describe it as we have done. Numbers of this little form have been found on a slabinclose proximity to one another.