I.—Some Coal-Measure Crustaceans with Modern Representatives

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 385-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Geological Magazine

Among the numerous fossils obtained by Dr. L. Moysey from the clay-ironstone nodules of the Coal-measures near Ilkesťon, Derbyshire, is one referred to by its discoverer as “a shrimp-like animal,” in a recent note published by him in the Geological Magazine for May last. Dr. Moysey was so fortunate as to secure several well-preserved examples of this very interesting Schizopod Crustacean from a disused brickfield on the Shipley Hall Estate, owned by E. M. Mundy, Esq. These he most liberally placed in my hands to examine and describe. Dr. Moysey also commended me to the Rev. C. Hinscliff, M.A., of Craig Royston, Bickley, Kent, who had in his possession another specimen of this crustacean obtained from the same locality. Mr. Hinscliff not only sent me his fossil to study, but generously presented it to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History Branch), Cromwell Road, where it will be preserved and exhibited

On the Type-locality of Carbonicola subconstricta (J. Sowerby)

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
R. V. Melville
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Original Label ◽  
Coal Measures

During a recent examination of some Coal Measure non-marine lamellibranchs in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), my attention was drawn to a specimen from the Sowerby Collection labelled “Unio subconstrictus J. Sow., Coal Measures, Derbyshire”. On the back of the specimen were the remains of an original label, partly defaced, which some previous worker had endeavoured to read, for the words “Chapel … Sheffiel[d]” had been neatly copied on to another label affixed to the specimen.

scholarly journals IV. On the Genus Pygocephalus (Huxley), A Primitive Schizopod Crustacean, from the Coal-Meascbes

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 400-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Text Figure ◽  
Coal Measures

Pygocephalus Cooperi was first described by Professor Huxley from the Coal-measures of Paisley in 1857 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. xiii, pp. 363–369, pi. xiii), and a second specimen by the same author in 1862 (op. cit., vol. xviii, pp. 420–422, text-figure). Some additional specimens came into my hands for exami-nation, and were communicated to the Glasgow Geological Society, in 1866 (Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. ii, pp. 234–247, pi. iii, figs. 1–3). In that paper I described a second species, which I named Pygocephalus Huxleyi (text-figure, p. 244, op. cit.). The specimens referred to above were obtained from the Coal-measures of Paisley, from Kilmaurs, and from near ilanchester. Since then the late Mr. Henry Johnson, F.G.S., formerly of Dudley, obtainedmany examples of Pi/gocephalus from the Clay-ironstone nodules of Coal-measure age at Coseley, near Dudley, now in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History Branch), Cromwell Itond, S.VV. These specimens are preserved in great perfection, and I had fully intended to figure them some years ago, but the pressure of other work caused them to be set aside for a time. Last year I received an example of Pygocephalm from Mr. Walter Baldwin, P.G.S., obtained from the Clay-ironstone of the Middle Coal-measures at Sparth. Rochdale (for description see Fig. 1, p. 405). I have also received through Mr. H. A. Allen, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey Museum, Jermyn Street, by the kindness of their owner, Mr. Herbert Hughes, Assoc. E.S.M., F.G.S., of Horseley House, Volverhampton Street, Dudley, four most interesting specimens of Pygocepkalus collected by him, two of which prove to be females, a point of extreme interest not heretofore observed.

I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1915 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Smith Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Magazine

In presenting a portrait and offering to the readers of the Geological Magazine a brief memoir of Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, my namesake and successor in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History), I feel that no apology is needed, inasmuch as every lover of our science will be glad to possess a record of one of its leading men whom he may have met already, and known generally, but may wish for a more personal acquaintance, which this sketch is intended to furnish.Henry Woodward.

IV.—Note on a Tooth of Ctenodus tuberculatus in the British Museum. By the Editor

1869 ◽  
Vol 6 (61) ◽  
pp. 317-317
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Coal Measures

Having had our attention directed by Mr. Barkas's paper to the specimens of this genus in the National Collection, and compared Mr. Barkas's figures with Mr. T. Atthey's description of Ctenodus tuberculatus [see “Annals and Magazine of Natural History” (4th series), Feb. 1868 (p. 83)]; Mr. W. Davies having also kindly pointed out to us a small but very perfect palatal tooth (see Plate IX. Fig. 3), probably from the Coal-measures of Carluke (from the collection of the late Mr. Alexander Bryson of Edinburgh), closely agreeing with Mr. Atthey's description in all its characters; we have thought it well deserving of a place in our Plate.

On Senonian Ammonoidea from Jamaica

1925 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. F. Spath
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Geological Magazine

In his paper on “The Yellow Limestone of Jamaica and its Mollusca” (Geological Magazine, Vol. LX, 1923, p. 345) Dr. C. T. Trechmann referred to an Upper Senonian fauna from shales at Providence, near Port Antonio, underlying a limestone with Rudistae. He recorded Baculites from the upper portion of these shales, and “rather low in the sequence” he collected some ammonites, one of which had been identified by the writer as belonging to the genus Parapachydiscus. The Shales at Providence had already been mentioned by the late Mr. Lucas Barrett1 as containing Baculites and Hamites, and in his collection, now in the British Museum (Natural History), there are preserved a number of fossils including the Pholadomya and Trigonia he recorded and two fragments of Hamites. The matrix of these is the same as that of Dr. Trechmann's examples, namely a brown calcareous sandstone, and the ‘Hamites’ in both collections belong to the same species, but Mr. Lucas Barrett's Baculites I have not been able to trace.

scholarly journals V.—Further Notes nn the Arthropoda of the British Coal-Measures

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 539-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
The Third ◽  
South West ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Working Out ◽  
A New Species

For some years past a Committee of Littleborough and Rochdale geologists, consisting of Messrs. W. H. Sutcliffe, Walter Baldwin, W. A. Parker, S. S. Platt, and others, have devoted themselves to the task of working out the beds of shale containing clay-ironstone nodules, a portion of the Middle Coal-measures at Sparth Bottoms, half a mile south-west of Rochdale Town Hall, in beds estimated to occur 135 feet above the Royley Mine Coal-seam.In the clay-ironstone nodules occur well-preserved ferns, Calamites, Sigillariœ, shells of Carbonicola acuta and other Coal-measure lamellibranchs, whilst the number of Arthropoda obtained is probably unsurpassed in any locality of this formation.The first Arthropod obtained from Sparth Bottoms was noticed by Mr. Walter Baldwin, F.G.S., under the name of Prestwichia, rotundata, Prestw., sp. (Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii, part 6, 1901, pp. 149–155, with a plate); the second in 1903, by the same geologist, who identified it as Bellinurus bellulus, König (op. cit., vol. xxviii, part 8, pp. 198–202). The third and most important discovery was made by Mr. W. A. Parker, F.G.S., namely, a new species of fossil Scorpion, which was described and figured in 1904 by Messrs. Baldwin & Sutcliffe under the name of Eoscorpius Sparthensis (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lx, p. 396, fig. 2). These geologists have continued their researches, of which a brief account was given by me at the York Meeting of the British Association (1906). Many subsequent finds have been most obligingly confided to me by these gentlemen, and through the kindness of Mr. W. H. Sutcliffe the specimens figured have since been presented to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History), the only condition imposed being that they should be described.

scholarly journals IV.—On some Fossil Entomostraca from South America

1897 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 259-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Rupert Jones
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
South America ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
Argentine Republic ◽  
Geological Magazine

There are now in the British Museum (Natural History Branch) several specimens of fossil Estheriæ from South America, beside those described and figured in the “Monograph of Fossil Estheriæ” (Palæontographical Society), 1862, pp. 109–111, pi. iv, figs. 8–11.1. There are some from the same locality as those already dealt with, namely, Estheria Forbesii, Jones, from Cacheuta in the province of Mendoza, Argentine Republic.2. Others collected by David Forbes at another place, namely, Arica, Department of Arequipa, in Southern Peru.3. An interesting series from Brazil; partly described and illustrated in the Geological Magazine for May, 1897, pp. 195–202, PI. VIII.

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