Abstract
GCG, 2(2), 81 H.S.T. and D.I.S. write: *The request for information concerning the whereabouts of the holotype of the Carboniferous scorpion Eobuthus holti Pocock (1911) by Dr Erik Kjellesvig-Waering has been answered by a recent article in the Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society. Presumed lost, this specimen from Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale (see Howell 1985) has been rediscovered in a shoe-box at Rochdale Museum. F. Holt was in fact not the collector (it was Mr H. Howard, an amateur geologist) but merely the person who sent it off to be identified - and a curator who basked in a local collector's glory!* Howell, A.C. 1985. Now and then, no.l: Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale. Gepl. Curator, 4(4), 211-214. Selden, P.A. 1985....
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