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Remarks on the Distribution of the Brachiopoda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2016

E. Suess
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In his address to the Geological Society of London, Prof. Phillips has stated that “very slight and trifling, if not mischievous, is that minute industry which, unguided by philosophical reflections, busies itself only with differentials of specimens and abandons the true integration of species, the work of the real naturalist” and from so just an assertion who could dissent; for although it may be necessary to study the characters by which species may be distinguished, still, if an undue importance is given to certain features, or that these are arbitrarily restricted within preconceived limits, and that the more important questions in connection with the distribution and zoological characters of the class in general are overlooked, then, as Professor Phillips so justly observes, but very little good and much harm may be the result of the minute industry of some would-be palæontologists.

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The Geologist , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 1860 , pp. 285 - 293
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1860

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page 285 note * I may here enumerate the various memoirs published by Prof. Suess upon the Brachiopoda, regretting at the same time that the space which can be devoted to this article precludes the possibility of my enlarging upon their respective merits.

1852.—“On Terebratula diphya.” Vienna, Acad. 8vo., one plate.

1853.—“On Striagocephalus Burtini.” Zool, Soc. 8vo., one plate.

1853.—“On the Brachial Apparatus of Thecidea.” Acad. 8vo., three plates.

1854.—“On the Brachiopoda of Kössen Strata. Acad. 4to., four plates.

1853.—“On the Brachiopoda of the Hallstett Strata.” Acad. 8vo., two plates.

1856.—“German edition of Davidson's Classification of the Brachiopoda.” 4to., five plates.

1858.—“On the Brachiopoda of Stramberg Strata in Haner's Beytrage.” 4to., six plates.

1859.—“Note sur la Waldhemia Stephanis in Palæon.” Lomb. 4to., one plate.

„ .—“On the Distribution of Brachiopoda.” First paper. Acad. 8ro.

„ .— „ „ „ Second paper. „ „

In addition to these, Prof. Suess has published several other papers relating to the Geology of the Alps, etc.

page 288 note * Mr. Hall's list citea Lept. sericea here for the first time.

page 291 note * Perhaps with one single exception.