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Abstract

THE collection of fossil Brachiopoda formed by the late Mr. J. F. Walker, of York, has been presented to the British Museum, (Natural History) by his executors, Mrs. Walker and Mr. Gelson Walker. It consists of several thousand specimens arranged in groups to illustrate the variations of species and the gradation of several so-called species into each other. It therefore supplements the Davidson collection, which was bequeathed to the museum in 1885. It is especially rich in material from the English Jurassic and Cretaceous formations, to which Mr. Walker devoted much attention; but it also contains important series of specimens from other English strata, besides several small collections for comparison from the European continent. The greater part of the collection will be kept for reference in the original cabinets, but more than a hundred important specimens, described and figured in Davidson's “Monograph of the British Fossil Brachiopoda,” will be placed in the exhibition cases of the public gallery.