Fig.14.Specimens figured by Murchison (1839) in The Silurian System, provided by Ollivant.A, P1.27, fig.2, Nereites Sedgwickii. Llandovery, Lampeter. B, P1.27, fig.4, NemertitesOllivantii, Llandovery, Lampeter. Reproduced at approximately original publication size.
Fig.15. Specimen provided by Stokes andfigured in The Silurian Svstem byNurchison (1839, p1.14, fig.10) asParadoxides quadrimucronatus, WenlockLst., Dudley/Malverns. Reproduced atapproximately original publication size.189 ,Rev. Alfred OLLIVANT (1798-1882)MURCHISON, p.699Alfred Ollivant (16 August 1798 to 16December 1882) was Vice-Principal of St.David's College, Lampeter, [Dyfed], 1827-1843(DNB). It was during this period that hediscovered the trace fossils figured byMurchison 'in the schistose building-stone ofthat place ILampeterl' (p.699). The originalspecimen of Nereites cambrensis (P1.27,fig.1) was recognised in the Powysland Museumcollection from Welshpool when it wastransferred to its current home at theNational Museum of Wales in 1962 (Bassett,M.G. and Owens, R.M. 1974, Fossil Tracks andU. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff).See Fig.14. 'l90 Charles STOKES (1783-1853)CHALMERS-HUNT, p.94CLEEVELY, p.277Cleevely noted that Charles Stokes FRS, FGSwas a London business man who collected rareand interesting specimens for use byspecialists such as Murchison. A largecollection of 751 lots, including mineralsand fossils, made by Stokes was sold in June1854 at Sotheby's in London after his death.Two copies of this sale catalogue, both withprices noted, are recorded (Chalmers-Hunt).The bulk of his collections were supposedlyto have gone to the BM(NH) but some materialis also with the BGS and the OxfordUniversity Museum. See Fig.15.AGASSIZ, as listedANDREWS, various pagesBURICE, as listedCLEEVELY, p.279MURCHISON, pp.21, 597The subscription list in The Silurian Svstemrefers to 'Strickland, Hugh E., Esq.,Cracombe IIouse, Evesham, Worcestershire'Fig. 16. Specimen provided by H.E.Strickland and figured in The Silurianby Murchison (1839, p1.2, fig.14)as Ctenacanthus W, ORS, Sapey,Worcestershire. Reproduced atapproximately original publication size.and his geological activities wereacknowledged (Murchison, pp.21, 597).Fig.16.SeeHodgetts (1986, pp.15-18) provided somefamily and ephemeral details regarding HES'sassociation with the Malvern Naturalists'Field Club. Cleevely reported that a largecollection was bequeathed to the SedgwickMuseum, Cambridge, in 1888, by the wife ofHES, and that material presented to the<strong>Geological</strong> Society by HES between 1841 and1853 is with the BGS. Andrews (p.44) noted aHES specimen figured by Agassiz (Tab 14,figs. 6, 7), but then adds (p.77) that noneof the HES fossil collection 'could be tracedto specimens in the Sedgwick Museum,Cambridge' nor in any other of the Oxford andCambridge institutions listed (HES was Readerin Geology at Oxford University 1849-1853).However,the FIBS collection is certainly atthe Sedgwick; as recorded by Woods (1891,p.xiv) it was 'a large and varied collection[which] contains a few figured specimens'.At the last count (GCG 4(4), p.207) 3645specimens in it were listed.Murchison mentioned (as an aside to thecollecting of Benjamin Rright) 'Since myfirst visits to the Malvern Hills, the cityof Worcester has done honour to itself inestablishing a Natural Nistory Society. Anelegant and commodious building has beenerected, the Museum of which, when I last sawit, promised to be soon filled with all thecharacteristic Silurian fossils' (p.414);HES was involved with this (Edwards 1907,p.6). Jones (1980) sketched the foundationof this Natural LIistory Society in 1833 andEdwin Lees (1800-1887), one of the foundingfathers of the Society, reported hisassociation with the 'ardent band whoconceived and formed the.. ..Society' and thatHES took a very active part in forming thenucleus of the museum (Lees 1856, pp.65-66).HES's own first full geological publicationwas read to the Society in 1834 (Strickland1835) and mentioned the museum on a number ofoccasions.Resulting from this early association/connection Worcester Museum has had at leasttwo later 'donations' of HES materialaccording to the printed annual reports ofthe Worcester Library and Museum (m notesby D.J.Smal1 1979). One in 1888-1889 by thelate Miss Frances Strickland, sister of HES
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