LOST AND FOUNDCOMPILED BY DONALD I. STEWARD AND HUGH S. TORRENSAbbreviationsAGASSIZ - Agassiz. J.L.R. 1844-1845.Monographic des Poissons Fossiles du VieuxGres Rouge ou Svsteme Devonian (Old RedSandstone) Britanni-s g &Russia. Neuchatel.ANDREWS - Andrews, S.M. 1982. The discoveryof fossil fishes in Scotland up to 1845.Rovd Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.BURRE - Peerage or LG (Landed ~eitry), referto the relevant edition of these works.CHALMERS-HUNT - Chalmers-Hunt, J.M. 1976.Natural history auctions 1700-1972.Sotheby Parke Bernet, London.CLEEVELY - Cleevely, R.J. 1983. Worldpalaeontological collections. BritishMuseum (Natural History) and MansellPublishing Company, London.DNB - Dictionary of national biography.<strong>Geological</strong>GCG - Newsletter of<strong>Curators</strong>' <strong>Group</strong>, continued as TheGeolouical -r.LP - 'Lost and Found' reference number inGCG.MURCHISON - Murchison. R.I. 1839. TheSilurian Svstem. John Murray, London.4 Beniamin Heywood BRIGHT (1787-1843)CLEEVELY, p.65GCG, 1(1), 18; 2(3). 126-121; 3(4). 238MURCHISON, pp.414, G26Murchison (p.626) alluded to 'the richcollection of Mr. Benjamin Bright' and(0.414) 'BY far the Ereater Dart of thesechoice specimens [we-dock fossils1 have beencollected by Mr. Benjamin Bright in thequarries upon the estate of his father atBrand Lodge'. The Murchison subscribersaddress was given as 'Bright, BenjaminHevwood. Esa.. * . FGS. &C., Stone Buildinas - .~iicoln's-Inn'. Figured specimens previouslysought, and via the LF columns (see GCGentries above), have not yet been found, hutwe live in hope (see Fig.l)! It is possiblethat a search of the Malvern Museum and the(former?) Malvern College collections mayproduce some results.55 Francis DOWNING (1777-1857) andMrs. DOWNINGCLEEVELY, p.105GCG, 2(3), 125-126; 2(6), 352; 2(9&10),614: 3(4). 238-241structure of the Dudley district' (p.485)whose iob as a mining aeent eave him aworking knowledge or tte geiogy of Dudley.Further figured specimens may be atBirmingham ~niveisity ~useum as thecollection of William Mathews (1828-1901)housed t<strong>here</strong> contains original Downingmaterial (GCG, 2(6), 352) (see Fig.2).56 Henrv William INWOOD (1794-1843)CHALMERS-HUNT, pp.83, 179GCG, 2(3), 126; 2(9&10), 614We have already sought crinoids figured byMurchison (1839) in The Silurian Svstem fromthe collection of H.W. Inwood (GCG, 2(3),p.1261, and then suggested the possibilitythat the fossil collector was the same man asthe London based architect Henry WilliamInwood (1794-1843) of the DNB, who is knownas a collector of antiquities.This is made almost certain because thearchitect can be recorded as a collector ofnatural history specimens, as becomes clearfrom a letter he wrote on 9 July 1834 from 5Southampton Place, Euston Square, London toJohn Thomas Hope MP (1761-18541, father ofF.W. Hope (1792-1862) the entomologist.this Inwood wrote on the subject of thescarab beetle (Ateuchus sacer), revered andreproduced as gems by the ancient Egyptians.Inwood sought information for his study, ofwhich only two parts were published in 1834,'Of the Resources of Design in theArchitecture of Greece, Egypt and othercountries obtained by .... studies .... fromNature', in which he drew parallels betweenthe fluting of Doric columns and theformation of certain shells. In this letter(preserved in the Hope MSS, EntomologyLibrary, University Museum, Oxford), he wrote'I purchased the series [of scarabs1 in Mr[Adrian Hardy1 Haworth's collection[auctioned in June-July 1834 (Chalmers-Hunt,p.83) 1 and some from Mr. [Rev. LansdownlGuilding's [FLS, FGS, FZS; 1797-18331 ... but Ihave not yet commenced my plate on them.... May I presume to submit to you that I amonly as an Architect and Antiquarian applyingmyself to such parts of Entomology asillustrate the researches I am now preparingfor publication'. It becomes clear from thisletter that Inwood also saw in the mineralKingdom inspiration for all the 'mostbeautiful examples of all the geometricalforms as well as of the pyramids andobelisks'.InIt has already been recorded in the LPSimilar inspiration must have come from thecolumns that Mrs. Downing provided fossil world of fossils and Inwood's fine collectionmaterial figured by Murchison, whilst it was of these was sold at auction between hisher husband 'My kind friend Mr Downing of the death in 1843 and 1863 (GCG, 2(9&10),Priory [Dudleyl, to whom 1 am above all other p.614). No sale catalogue has yet beenpersons indebted for an acquaintance with the traced (Chalmers-Hunt, p.179).
Fig.1. Specimens figured by Murchison (1839) in he Silurian System, provided by Bright.A, PI. 7, fig.2, Homalonotus Kniehtii, Upper Ludlow, ~ n s l ~ u d l o w B. . PI.? bis. fie.3.. U .Bumastus ~arriensis, Wenlock Lst., ~alv&ns. C, ~1.14, fig.9, paradoxides bimucronatus,Wenlock Lst., Malverns; D, P1.14, fig.11, Asaphus longi-caudatus, Wenlock Shale, Malverns.E, P1.14, fig.15, Acidaspis Brightii, Wenlock Lst., MalvernsIDudlev. F, P1.17. . fie.9. - .Actinocrinites exiiinsus, Wenlock Lst., Dudley. Reproduced at approximately originalpublication size.127 John Towrv BURGON (c.1789-1870) looking for other unrelated material haveand John Alfred BURGON (?-1871)shed new light on these two which seems worthputting on record.GCG, 3(4), 248-249; 3(5), 323; 3(6), 397The Staffordshire Advertiser (17 DecemberH.S.T. writes: 1842) recorded that J.T. Burgon, wholesalehardwareman of Bucklersbury, had to surrender'In previous LP 127 notes we tried to unravel to the Court of Commissioners in Bankruptcythe story of the collections of J.T. and J.A. on 21 December 1842. Despite the dividendRurgon. Accidental discoveries whilst announced for his creditors on 21 August of
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