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B. B. BANCROFT, who was killed while serving as a 'seaborne aircraft identifier' during the invasion of Normandy on June 24, 1944, will long be remembered for his work on the trinucleids and brachiopods of the Shropshire Ordovician, upon which four of his papers appeared in the Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for the years 1928 and 1929. He was the first geologist to recognize the unconformity at the base of the Ashgillian near Bala, and made many advances in the stratigraphical correlation of English and Welsh Ordovician sections. One of his greatest successes lay in his discrimination between Heterorthis retrorsistria and H. alternata and his assignment of them to their correct stratigraphical horizons. Some of his best work was privately printed in “Correlation Tables of the Stages Costonian-Onnian in England and Wales” (1933), and his “Brachiopod Zonal Indices of the Stages Costonian to Onnian in Britain” has recently appeared posthumously in the Journal of Paleontology in the United States. It is hoped other papers will follow.
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LAMONT, A. Mr. B. B. Bancroft. Nature 157, 42 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157042b0
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