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~ ~.Lt. Col. Echalaz, for which 'a hand-book(illustrated) of the Echalaz collection,compiled by Echalaz price 1s 6d isavailable.' This is clearly the item notedabove.Howarth, E. and Platnauer, H .M. 1911. Direct01 y- of museums in Great Britain and Ireland.London.H.S.T.96 Admiral Sir Edward BELCHER (1799-1877)GCG, 2(9&10), 611; see also 3(9), 14 [entryfor J. Cheetham (fl.1870s)lCLEEVELY, pp.52-53Buckland (1837, p.336) records that 'CaptainBeechey and Lieutenant Belcher foundAmmonites on the Coast of Chili in Lat. 365in the cliffs near Conception, a fragment ofone of these Ammonites is preserved in theMuseum of Haslar Hospital in Gosport.' Thisreference prompts an inquiry into whathappened to these collections (see under152)? SHERBORN, p.15, comments on Belcher'scollections; 'Shells. Sale, Ath. May 1877,863.'Buckland, W. 1837. Geology mineralogyconsidered reference to naturaltheology. London, 2 vols.H.S.T.& M.D.C.99 Louis BUNTON (1814-1838)GCG, 2(9&10), 612CLEEVELY, p.159The short life and work of this collectorhave been described by Torrens and Getty(1984). Here, too, is to be found a shortnote ahout what is known of his geologicalcollection (p.66).Torrens, H.S. and Getty, T.A. 1984. LouisHunton (1814-1838) English pioneer inammonite biostratigraphy. Earth Sci.- Hist. 3, 58-66.H.S.T.103 Alexander BROGDEN and104 John BROGDENGCG, 2(9&10), 616; 3(1), 24-25Details of the Welsh industrial activities ofthese two can be found in papers by the lateLeonard S. Higgins (1974, 1978)Hirreins. . L.S. 1974. John Broeden and Sons.Glamorgan Historian, 10, 148-156.Hiegins, L.S. 1978. The Brogden pioneers ofthe earlv industrial-develo~meit in MidGlamorgan. National ~ibrirv of WalesJournal, 20, 240-252.H.S.T.111 James LOMAX (1857-1934)GCG, 3(1), 20; see also 3(4), 234-235 and3(5), 322-323CLEEVELY, p.187Alan Howell's thesis on Lomax was submittedto the Faculty of Technology of theUniversity of Manchester for the degree ofM.Sc. in October 1984, and accepted for thefollowing month. It is to be hoped thatsome, at least, of this work Will bepublished before too long.Howell, A. 1984. James Lomax (1857-1934),- life, -- work and influence palaeohotany-- and coal research. M.Sc. thesis(unpubl.) . University of Manchester.M.D.C.120 Specimens from the BEAGLE voyagesGCG. 3(2&3), 162Buckland (1837, p.603) wrote that Mr C.Darwin has deposited in the Museum of theRoyal College of Surgeons London, a mostinteresting series of fossil bones of extinctMammalia, discovered by him in SouthAmerica.' SHERBORN comments 'Some 'Beagle'things at Cambridge. Foss. Mamm. in Coll. ofSurgeons. London. Obs on coral reefs, 1851,part of the fossils are in B.M.' Porter(1980) may prove a useful starting point.Buckland, W. 1837. Geology mineralogvconsidered m reference to llaturaltheology. London, 2 vols.Porter, D.M. 1980. Charles Darwin's plantcollections from the voyage of the Beagle.Journal of the Society fo;Bibliography of Natural History, 9(4),515-525.H.S.T.t M.D.C.148 Henry BELCHER (c.1786-1854)GCG, 3(9), 15, 17L? Mr Belcher of CLEEVELY, p.521As noted in GCG 3(9), and reiterated by PeterLingwood, this collector was honoured byMartin Simpson (1843, p.12) in the somewhatflattering description contained within thatof a new species of ammonite, 4. Belcheri.Peter, who provided the copy of thisdescription here reproduced (Fig.11, alsonotes that this work appears to contain anumber of useful short references to localgeologists.H.S .T. writes that a recently discoveredletter (now Geological Society of Londonarchives MUS 219) gives further informationahout Belcher and his geological activitiesin Yorkshire. It is dated 16 September 1837from the Whitby Stone Company Office (inwhich Belcher was clearly a partner).. Itnotes that, in addition to specimens alreadyleft at the Society, the letter accompaniesone of Porcelain Earth found near Whithy. Itasks that these donations should be recordedas in the name of the Whitby Stone Company
13. A. I~I:LCIIEI~!.Depressed; volutio~~s G or i, exposed, mther flat on thesidcs, back rounded; mdii straight, prominent, ob-solccc 011 the back, separntcd liy concnvc spaces;alxrturc squarisli ; diatuctcr 1; illch.llle smoothness nnd elrgaace of this bruutiful sheU reminh methe palitencss mtl urbnnily of H. Uclcher, Esq., President ofthe \!-hitby Philurophical Society: whose lore for natural science,entitles him to n grateful remembrance. It is from thelowerLins, may be readily distinguished from A. pynteus, andby the smooth back.Fig.].Prom Simpson (1843 , p.12)instead of as by Mr King and Mr Belcher asrecorded previously. The material inquestion is recorded as donated to theGeological Society's Museum on 30 August 1837as 'Specimens of the Wbitby and Whitehouse'building stone and of the Whitby porcelainearth in contact with a whinstone dyke'ITrans. al. Soc. Lond. (2), 5, List ofDonations 18401.Simpson, M.1843. A Monograph of fileAmmonites of ~Gkshire m. London andWhitby.149 Rocks andminerals from the OutcrHebrides, Scotlnr~dDr Keith Nicholson (Hunterian Museum, TheUniversity, Glasgow G12 8QQ). writes: 'I amgathering details of rock and mineralcollections, held in museums throughout theUK, which include specimens from any of theislands in the Outer Hebrides. In this Ialso include the islands of St Kilda, NorthRona. Sula Sgeir, the Flannan Isles andRockall. I would therefore be veryinterested in details of any specimens fromthese islands, and the collections, howeversmall, in which they are included.'150 William Henry FITTON F.R.S. (1780-1861)and151 William Roby BARR F.G.S.Geoff Hanoock (Department of Natural History,Glasgow Museums and Galleries, Kelvingrove,Glasgow; formerly of Bolton Museum and ArtGallery, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton BL1 MA),writes: 'To have a good run of the publishedorgans of the Geological Society of London isan asset for any museum but to have some ofthe earliest volumes which once belonged toWilliam Henry Fitton FRS (1780-1861) andpossibly annotated by him adds considerableinterest. Part of the set in Bolton Museumbears Fitton's bookplate (Fig.2) showing armsand crest in volumes one to five of theJournal. These are bound in exactly the sameway as the twelve volumes of the Transactions(quarter bound in leather with marbled boardsand raised bands) although these latter donot carry his bookplate. There are someannotated corrections to his seminal 225 pagearticle 'Observations on some of the strataFig.2.Bookplate of William Henry Fittonbetween the Chalk and the Oxford Oolite, inthe South-east of England' in theTransactions (second series, volume four,1836) but there are also copious notes involume one of the -. These refer tothe way in which the Proceedings were treated(Figs.3, 4). This tends to confirm theannotations as Fitton's because he was thefounder of the Proceedings in 1827 and wouldnaturally be concerned if their identitybecame altered or confused. Unfortunatelythe first four volumes of Proceedings do notform part of this series, as these might alsohave been of interest. Comparison with knownexamples of his handwriting will resolve thisquestion, and any information will be welcome.Volumes 6-18 (1850-1862) contain instead thebookplate of William Roby Barr, who waselected Fellow of the Geological Society ofLondon in 1864. Apart from his address, givenas Norris Bank. Stockport, nothing else canbe found of his activities. He is presumablythe ancestor of Charles E. Barr of Holme Lee,Lostock, Bolton, who donated (in 1913) thisrun of Geological Society periodicals up to1867 and also The Geologist, later TheGeological Magazine, also to 1867. These areall uniformly quarter bound with a differentmarbled board and with no raised bands on thespine. This could be taken to indicate thatW.R. Barr had his own set bound, obtainedFitton's* to complete his run and died circa1861. Any information on Barr would bewelcome'.*These were probably acquired at the sale ofOr Fitton's library at Sotheby's on 8-9 May
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