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Pickford to ensure that the collectionsreceive proper care and are appropriatelypromoted and used, as far as possible.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI am delighted to be able to report thissplendid news for the Bath ColleCti~nS,especially in the light of Mr Pickford's hardwork on them over the years, and I amgrateful to Mr D. Liddle (Director ofCommunity Leisure. County of Avon) and Mr S.Locke (Executive Director, Area MuseumCouncil for the South West) for permission topublish this article.Michael A. TaylorArea Museum Council for the South-WestCity of Bristol Museum & Art GalleryQueen's Road. Bristol BSB 1RLTypescript received 1 May 1985POET'S CORNERTony Cross (Curtis Museum, Hampshire CountyMuseum Service) sends the following from- A Geological Primer in Verse (1820).GEOLOGICAL COOKERYTo make GraniteOf Felspar and Quartz a large quantity take,Then pepper with Mica, and mix up and bake.This Granite for common occasions is good;But, on Saint-days and Sundays, be it understood,If with bishops and lords in the state-roomyou dine,Then sprinkle with Topaz, or else Tourmaline.N.B. The proportion of the ingredients maybe varied ad libitum; - it will keep a longtime.To make PorphyryLet Silex and Argil be well kneaded down;Then colour at pleasure, red, grey, green,or brown:When the paste is all ready, stick in hereand thereSmall crvstals of Felspar, both oblong andTo make Pudding-stoneTo vary your dishes, and shun any waste,Should you have any left of the very samepaste.You may make a plum-pudding; but then do notstintThe quantum of Pebbles - Chert, Jasper, orFlint.To make Amy~daloidTake a mountain of wacke2, somewhat softishand green,In which bladder-shaped holes may be everywhere seen;Choose a part where these holes are decidedlyvoid all,Pour Silex in these, to form Agatesspheroidal,And the mass in a trice will be Amygdaloidal.To make a good Brsccia witha Calcareous CementBreak your rocks in sharp fragments,Dreservine the at~eles;Of ~ & or a QUG~Z you &ay add a fewspangles;Then let your white hatter be well filter'dthrough,Till the parts stick as firm as iP fasten'dby glue.To make a coarser BrecoiaFor a Breccia more coarse you may vary yourmatter;Pound Clay, Quartz, and Iron-stone, moisten'dwith water:Pour these on your fragments, - and then waitawhile,Till the Oxyd of Iron is red as a tile.his is the old-fashioned receipt for'waclre is generally greenish, and rathermaking Porphyry. used by our grandmothers: unctuous to the touch. This rock must not beVG. they made the paste first, and stuck in confounded with Grey Wacck.the Felspar afterwards. This method is easyand plain: but in the most approved modernreceipts, the ingredients are all mixedtogether at first, and the Felspar is left tocrystallize while the paste is hardening.
LOST AND FOUNDCOMPILED BY MICHAEL D. CRANE AND HUGH S. TORRENSIn previous issues of 'Lost and Found'with Paul Ensom's help, to the British Museumrequests for information and responses to(Natural History), where it had remainedthose requests have appeared under separate after having been borrowed by a member of the'Lost' and 'Found' headings. Here, and in Museum's staff some fifteen years ago. Itfuture issues, the entries for informaiionhas now been returned to the Lyme Regisand collections sought and the resoonses will (Philpot) Museum and reunited with copies ofappear together in a single sequence.Owenis two monographs on Scelidosaurusinscribed by him and presented to Harrison.AbbreviationsThus neither the specimen nor the letters hadheen formally transferred to the BritishCLEEVELY : Cleevely, R.J. 1983. World ~alae- Museum (Natural History), pace the suggestionontological collections. British Museum made by Torrens (1979).(Natural History) and Mansell PublishingCompany, London.The juvenile specimen is, incidentally, stillDESMOND - Desmond, R. 1977. Dictionar~ of regarded as Scelidosaurus by Dr Alan CharigBritish and Irish botanists and horti-and Dr Angela Milner (pers. comm. to John--pculturalists. Taylor and Francis, Fowles), despite the suggestion by NewmanLondon.(1968) and later workers that it is notreferable to this taxon.'GCG - Newsletter of the Geological Curators'm, continued as GeologicalCurator.SHERBORN - Sherborn, C.D. 1940. Where is the----- collection? CambridgeUniversity Press.Lang, W.D. 1947. Proc. Dorset Nat. S.Archaeol. Soc. 68, 103-118.Newman, B. 1968. The Jurassic dinosaurScelidosaurus harrisoni, Owen.Palaeontolo~, 11, 40-43.13 David Christopher DAVIES (1827-1885)Owen, R. 1861. Monograph of the Reptilia ofthe Liassic Formations. Part 1. AGCG, (61, 298-299: (7). 346; (8). 428-429;Monograph of a fossil dinosaur(9). 454-455; (It?), 489. (Scelidosaurus harrisoni Owen) of theCLEEVELY, p.98. Lower Lias. Paheontogr. W.IMonogr. l, 14pp., llpls.For a biographical note of this geologist see Torrens, H. S. 1979. Collections~and informationBick (1982, pp. 105-110) which contains other lost and found. 66. James Harrisonreferences to his life and work. (1819-1864). a, 2(6), 353-354.Bick, D.E. 1982. The copper mines ofSnowdonia. Pound House, Newent,Gloucestershire.H.S.T.35, 66 James HARRISON (1819-1864)GCG, (101, 490, 491; 2(5), 263; 2(6), 353-354CLEEVELY, p.145Dr M.A. Taylor (Area Museum Council for theSouth West, clo City of Bristol Museum andArt Gallery) and John Fowles (Lyme Regis(Philpot) Museum) wqite:'It is now possible to answer the query madehy one of us (J.F.) concerning the whereaboutsof Harrison's corresoondeuce withpioneer palaeontologists, summarised by Lang(1947), and of Harrison's juvenile specimenof the eponymous dinosaur ~celidosaurusharrisoni, figured and described by Owen(1861). All had been bequeathed to theMuseum in 1937 by Harrison's youngestdaughter, Miss Mary Harrison, together withother bwks and fossils.John Fowles has discovered that the lettersare deposited in the Lyme Regis BoroughArchives at the Dorset Record Office (DROLyme Archives Index, p.28, N18). Mike Taylorhas hunted down the specimen of the dinosaur,68 Rev. William Fox (1813-1881)GCG, 2(5), 264CLEEVELY, p.121Blows, W.T. 1983. William Fox (1813-18811, aneglected dinosaur collector of the Isleof Wight. Annals of Natural11(2), 299-313.M.D.C.W.89 ECHALAZ collectionGCG, 2(8), 507 [as Eschalazl; 2(9&10),616 [as Eschalaz/EchalazlBrowsing in an old secondhand book catalogue' recently I noted the following entry:'ECHALAZ C Waterloo Museum, Liverpool.Complete History (and Description) of theEchalaz Collection (of Birds). CROYDON(1908) 8vo.. plates, cloth'. This seems tobe a very scarce item and it would beinteresting to locate a copy to see if theMuseum included geological material. TheWaterloo Museum is clearly that described byHowarth and Platnauer (1911, p.230) as theMuseum at Waterloo-with-Seaforth, nearLiverpool (pop. 26,399) run by the urbandistrict council, in a single room. Thecontents are chiefly birds with a generalcollection. The birds are the collection of
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