Note 691 — Chapter XVII

This Tortoise, with the sanction of Baron Cuvier, was described under the name Trionyx, in Foss. Tilg. For. 1827, p. 60, and its distinctive characters were pointed out. In Geol. S. E. 1833, p. 255, the specific name Bakewelli was proposed in honour of the late Robert Bakewell, Esq., whose excellent works have so greatly promoted the advancement of geology; a privilege to which, as the original discoverer of the species, and of its zoological relations, I was fairly entitled. But this name does not appear in the list of British Chelonians, either in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1841, or in Mr. Morris’s Cat. Brit. Org. Rem. 1843. With a melancholy pleasure I now restore the name of my lamented friend, as a just, but very inadequate tribute of respect to his memory.