A monograph of British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. [AND] M. R. Sahni, the Terebratulidae of the British Chalk. [AND] N. E. Pettitt, The Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk.

London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1854-1953. 4to (27.0 x 20.6 cm). 205 pp., 21 [12, 9] lithographed plates; 62 pp.; ten plates; 58 pp., three plates. Later half calf, spine with five raised, gilt bordered bands, and gilt titles on spine. Edges speckled red. = A fine collection of papers on British Cretaceous Brachiopoda, and, in fact, all that has been published on the Cretaceous members of this group in the Palaeontographical Society's monograph series over a period of one hundred years. It starts with "Part II" of Davidson's monograph (117 pp., 12 plates). The omitted Part I only contained a general introduction and the Tertiary species, not those from the Cretaceous. The index covers both parts. This is followed by the Appendix and supplementary additions to the Appendix (30 pp., plates A, I-VIII), as well as the 1874 part titled "Supplement to the British Cretaceous Brachiopoda", paged 17-72 (pp. 1-16 do not deal with the Cretaceous). The later papers by Sahni and by Pettitt are in the rear. Some foxing to a few explanatory leaves, much milder on the accompanying plates, otherwise very good, clean. All in a nice binding. Nissen ZBI, 1047.