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In the autumn of 1888, the well-known American palaeontologist C. D. Walcott spent seven weeks in Great Britain, attending the Fourth Session of the International Congress of Geologists in London, discussing Lower Palaeozoic strati-graphical classification and palaeontology with British and international colleagues, examining faunas in various British collections, and studying sections and collecting...