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COLLECTlONS AND INFORMATION LOST AND FOUND
COLLECTIONS AND INFORMATION SOUGHT
86. SHORT, Rev. Jonathan (c.1826-1899)
Geoff Hancock of the Bolton Museum, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton, BL1 lSA, asks
if anyone can demonstrate that Short made a geological collection of any sort
as is suggested by the following obituary notice:-
6nn3Tay 17Tthe
JO~ATH-IN SaosT,rof-Boghton, n i in hi. 71th ywr.
& m horn ay a ge0logi.t and antiquarian thmuigho~lt the of
*and has taken an active pan in collecting and ~mrerving the hstoncal
- of Lancashire.
from:- Natural Science -15,
p. 71, July 1899.
In connection with his revision and major enlargement of C. D. Sherborn's
1940 "Where is the - Collection" Ron Cleevely of the Department of
Palaeontology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London S.W.7, seeks information on
the following geological collectors and collections:-
87. BENDALL, John (or S?) (? of Cheltenham)
Referred to in footnote p. 20 by R. I. Murchison, 1834, Geology of ..
Cheltenham : "I may observe that S. Bendall, the intelligent chemical assistant
in Mr. Thompson's manufactory of salts, has begun to collect in ss zealous a
manner, that I have little doubt he will soon add many undescribed species to our
lists. His collection is open to the public".
He is probably the same man as the John Bendall mentioned on pages 37, 40
as the owner of a museum in Cheltenham from which fossils were submitted to
Murchison including Ichthyosaurus bones.
88. BOLTON, John (1788-1873)
He was said to have been the first to collect fossils from Furness and to
have amassed more material from the Lake District than any other person, but the
whereabouts of such a collection is not known!
Obit. : Geol. Mag., 1873: 95-96.
A small collection from the Lower Silurian of CONISTON was purchased in
December 1862 and is now in the collections of the Institute of Geological Sciences,
London.
89. ESCHALAZ
His collection of geological material is supposed to be in Bolton Museum
but any further information or confirmation is sought.