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Established in 1847, The Palaeontographical Society exists for the purpose of figuring and describing British fossils by publishing monographs.

28/09/2026

This week on , we have a plate from the second instalment of Thomas Davidson's fossil brachiopod monographs. This time its fossils from the Cretaceous! This plate features species from several genera: Crania, Thecidea and Lingula.

21/09/2026

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This plate is from Volume 6, Issue 15 (1852), A Monograph of British Tertiary Brachiopoda. This issue is the first part of an enormous series of work published by Thomas Davidson in the Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society over 30 years.

14/09/2026

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This one is from Charles Darwin's work on fossil gooseneck barnacles (Volume 5, Issue 13 1951).

Darwin had a love-hate relationship with barnacles. The following year he wrote to his second cousin, W. D. Fox, and said that "[he] hate[d] a barnacle as no man ever did before".

07/09/2026

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This plate depicts a fossil colony of Thecosmilia annularis. The detail is absolutely stunning!

A Monograph of the British Fossil Corals. Second Part. Corals from the Oolitic Formations by Milne Edwards and Haime (Volume 5, Issue 12, 1851).

24/08/2026

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This plate is from "A Monograph of the British Fossil Brachiopoda: Part III" by Thomas Davidson (Volume 4, Issue 10 1851). It depicts Spirifer rostatus (now known as Liospiriferina rostrata).

10/08/2026

This week's is from Volume 4, issue 9 (1850). This lovely plate shows a range of Natica sea-snails from the Great Oolite by J Morris and John Lycett.

05/08/2026

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27/07/2026

This week on , we have this plate depicting nautilus, ammonites and belemnites from A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with Descriptions of Shells From the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Vol. II. Bivalves by Searles V. Wood (Volume 4, Issue 8, 1850).

Illustrations by William Hellier Baily.

20/07/2026

It's and this week's example is pretty distinctive. This is a plate from A Monograph of the British Fossil Corals by H. Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, depicting corals from the London Clay by J Delarue at Day & Sons lithographers to the queen.

Volume 3, Issue 7 (1850).

13/07/2026

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Today we have an illustration depicting Crocodilus hastingsiae (now Diplocynodon). This species was named after Lady Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, to honour "the accomplished lady by whom the singularly perfect example of the species had been recovered and restored".

The plate can be found in Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the London Clay. Part II. Crocodilia, Ophidia by Professor Richard Owen (Volume 3: Issue 6 1850).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02693445.1850.12088364

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