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Notes on the Carboniferous Polyzoa of North Yorkshire

1881; Zoological Society of London; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1144/pygs.7.4.329

2041-4811

George Robert Vine,

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

SEVERAL years ago I received from Mr. John Harker, of Richmond, in Yorkshire, a small packet of Shale, marked " Richmond"; and a few organisms picked out, mounted on slips, and marked, "Hurst" and "Downholme,"The organisms were unnamed, hut they belonged to several Genera of Polyzoa, Entomostraca, and Foraminifera.After this, I had sent to me to be named about seventy-three slides, and several blocks of Limestone and Shells, on which were incrusting Fenestella and Berenicea.Many of the specimens mounted on the slips were duplicates, and as near as I can remember they were collected together from the neighbourhood of Richmond and Hurst.Mr. Harker was devoting his attention to the Entomostracia and Foraminifera of the Carboniferious series ; and besides these, he very wisely mounted and preserved other organisms as well.Always in very delicate health, our correspondence was cut short by his death, and the exact localities of his specimens are thereby lost, for since his death his collection has been scattered abroad.I tried to purchase his slips of Polyzoa, but I never had an answer to my offer, and thus this