British palaeontologist Thomas Davidson (1817-85) was born in
Edinburgh and began his studies at the city's university.
Encouraged by German palaeontologist Leopold von Buch, he began to
study brachiopod fossils at the age of twenty, and he quickly
became the undisputed authority. He was elected fellow of the
Geological Society of London in 1852, receiving the Wollaston medal
in 1865. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. Published
between 1850 and 1886, this six-volume work became the definitive
reference text on the subject. It includes more than two hundred
hand-drawn plates and a comprehensive bibliography. This volume,
the first of six, includes an essay on the terebratulids by Richard
Owen, an analysis of brachiopod shell structure by W. B. Carpenter
and a guide to classification by Davidson himself. The rest of the
volume describes Cretaceous, Tertiary, Oolitic and Liasic
brachiopod species.
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