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Coal Fossils in the Denstone College MuseumFig.2. Specimens figured by Murchison (1839)in The Silurian Svstem, provided by theDownings. A, P1.17, fig.4,Dimerocrinites decadactvlus, WenlockLst., Dudley. B, P1.17, fig.6,Cvathocrinites pvriformis, Wenlock Lst.,Dudley. C, P1.17, fig.8. Actinocrinitesarthriticus, Wenlock Lst., Dudley. D,P1.18, fig.3, Marsupiocrinites coelatus,Wenlock Lst., Dudley. Reproduced atapproximately original publication size.Fig.3. Some Denstone College fossils;from Smith, W.B. 1915, Cambridge countvgeographies: Staffordshire, p.34.Cambridge University Press. (WalterBernard Smith was the Senior ScienceMaster at Denstone College; the fossilsillustrated are not referred to in thetext .)the following year (Staffordshire Advertiser5 August 1843) this bankruptcy must haveaffected both his collecting pursuits and hisscientific standing thereafter. The Times (21January 1870, p.1) recorded his death 'on the19th. January at 2 Claremont Terrace, Hackneylate of 35 Bucklersburv, Citv [of London1 inthe 81st. year of his age'. This gives hisdate of birth as c.1189 and adds further, ifcircumstantial, evidence that he must havebeen a younger brother of the Thomas Burgon(1797-1858) mentioned in GCG 3(4). p.249.John Alfred Burgon was the only member of theBurgon family to have been elected FGS (JohnThackray, pers. comrn.), becoming so on 13April 1836. His collection of fossils in1838 was noted in GCG 3(5), p.323. Since hisCity address was the same as J.T. Burgon's,and from what follows below, we must assumehe was a son of J.T. Burzon. JAB'S death wasreported to the Council ofvthe GeologicalSociety on 21 February 1872, and is likely tohave occurred in 1871 and not, as we reportedearlier (GCG 3(6), p.3971, in 1872. Fromsome of the sponsors of his election as FGS -Edward Turner (1798-1837: first professor ofchemistry and lecturer in geology atUniversity College, London) and Robert EdmundGrant (1793-1874; first professor of zoologyand comparative anatomy also at theUniversity College) - we must assume J.A.Burgon was one of the first geology studentsat that college.'
161 DENSTONE COLLEGE CollectionGCG, 4(5), 293-294Tom Sharpe (Dept. of Geology, National Museumof Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NP)writes:'It may be of interest to record that the NMWacquired several specimens from the CyrilBrett mentioned in connection with DenstoneCollege (see also Fig.3). The firstacquisition in 1923 from 'Prof. Cyril Brett,Denstone College Museum, Staffs.' comprisedsix fossils from the Trias and six specimensof salt pseudomorphs from the Keuper Mar1 ofStaffordshire, and the second in 1934 from'Cyril Brett MA. 23 Lon-y-dail, Rhiwbina',comprised gem gravel (sapphire and garnet)from Butte, Montana, USA.'169 Figured specimens from 'The SilurianSystem' (Murchison 1839)GCG, 4(6), 347MURCHISON, p.702Further details of our original request [LF1691 for information about the figuredsoecimens still beine sought bv J.D.D. Smith(international ~omm~ssion-on foologicalNomenclature, BM(NH)) have here beensubdivided. for ease of reference. intoseparate LP entries under the names of thecollectors associated with individual'missing' specimens; the listing of these,in their LF number order, is as follows:LF 4 BRIGHT, Benjamin Heywood:GCG, 1(1), 18; 2(3), 126-127; 3(4), 238.LF 54 MURCHISON, Roderick Impey:GCG, 2(3), 125.LF 55 DOWNING, Francis, and Mrs:GCG, 2(3), 125-126; 2(6), 352; 2(9&10),614; 3(4), 238-241.LP 56 INWOOD, H.W.: GCG, 2(3), 126;2(9&10), 614.LF180 BIDDULPH, OrmusLF181 BOWERBANK, James ScottLF182CARTWRIGHT, [CorneliuslLF183 EVANS, W[illiaml RLowlandlLF184 GOODHALL, Il[enryl H[umphreyslLF185 BERSCHEL, Sir JohnLF186LF187LF188LF189LF190LEWIS, Rev. Thomas TIaylorlMALCOLMSON, John GrantMARTIN, JohnOLLIVANT, Rev. AlfredSTOICES, CharlesLF191 STRICKLAND. Hugh EdwinIt has not been possible to attribute six ofthe figured crinoid specimens to particularcollections, only that they must be from thecollections of either Bright, Murchison orInwood. These are reproduced here as Fig.4.174 Rev. ELdmundI JERMYN 11845-19251Michael A. Taylor (Keeper of NaturalSciences, Museum and Art Gallery, GeorgeStreet, Perth pH1 5LB) writes:'In 1895 the museum of Trinity College,Glenalmond near Perth received 'a largecollection of fossils, minerals and rocksfrom the Rev. E. Jermyn'. This donation wasfollowed in 1900 by a 'nearly completeIchthyosaurus from the Blue Lias ofSomerset'. None of these donations areidentifiable in the surviving geologicalmaterial from the school museum which passedon to Perth Museum and Art Gallery lastyear. Any information about Rev. E. Jermynand, in particular, the fate of theichthyosaur would be most welcome. There areno indications of the size or state ofpreparation of the latter.'H.S.T.Writes:'The donor of this collection is the Rev.Bdmund Jermyn (1845-1925). He attendedWestminster School in whose school record(Barker and Stenning 1928, pp.515-516) he isrecorded thus:Jermyn, Edmund, eldest son of Hugh WilloughbyJermyn Iwho also attended Westminster] by hisfirst wife; b. Oct.17, 1845; adm. Oct.1,1858; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1864. matric.May 18, 1864; shot for the Chancellor'sChallenge Plate at Wimbledon againstCambridge 1868; Burdett Coutts Scholar1870; B.A. 1869; M.A. 1871; ordained1870; Curate of St. Paul's. Oxford. 1870-2;S.P.G. [Society for the Promotion of theGospel?] Secretary at Madras 1873-4;Chaplain on the Bengal EcclesiasticalEstablishment 1875-94; Rector of Newenden,Kent, 1894-7; Vicar of ZIelsby, Cheshire,1897-1903; Rector of Croughton, Northants.1903-12; m. 1st. Feb.3, 1873. Katherine,daughter of Lieut.-Col. Joseph Chambers, ofOxford; 2nd, Oct.8, 1878, Constance Barre,daughter of Charles Paget Carmichael, ofHove, Sussex; d. April 8, 1925.The most significant item recorded here isthat he was a Burdett-Coutts Scholar atOxford University in 1870. These had beenendowed in 1861 as 'two scholarships for thestudy of geology and of natural science ashearing on geology each of an annual value ofabout 6115 and tenable for two years'. Theyhad their origin in a donation from thebanker and philanthropist AngelaBurdett-Coutts (1814-1906) (see DNB1901-1911, p.262). She at the same timepurchased the Devonian fossil collection ofher scientific mentor William Pengelly(1812-1894) and presented that to the OxfordUniversity Museum in 1860 (Pengelly 1897,p.93).
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