202 Geology. 



1817. 



Miss Benett's donation was continued. 



" Specimens illustrative of the Mineral Geography of the 

 South Downs, from G. A. Mantell, Esq." apparently Dr. 

 Mantell's first donation. 



"Four large specimens of Ichthyolites from Loughborough " 

 (probably Dapedius orbis from the Lower Lias of Barrow-on- 

 Soar), were presented by the Countess of Aylesford. 



Cretaceous fishes from the Lebanon were collected and 

 presented by Lady Esther Stanhope. 



A skull of Bos primigenius from Athol, Perthshire, was 

 presented by Mr. David Inglis, and subsequently described 

 and figured in Owen's " British Fossil Mammals and Birds," 

 pp. 501-2, figs. 208, 210. 



1818. 



Miss Benett's donation was continued. 



Various fossil remains from the Gypsum Quarries near Paris, 

 were presented by the Administration of the Jardin des Plantes, 

 through Baron Cuvier. 



1819. 



Part of the vertebral column of Ichthyosaurus, from Lower 

 Lias, Lyme Regis, was presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart. 

 Dr. Mantell's donation was continued. 



1822. 



Tertiary shells from Barbados were presented by Mr. G. B. 

 Greenough. 



A series of coloured plaster casts of mammals from the Paris 

 Gypsum, preserved in the Paris Museum of Natural History, and 

 described and figured in Cuvier's " Ossements Fossiles," was 

 presented by Baron Cuvier. 



Fossil bones obtained by Mr. Whidbey from the cavern of 

 Oreston, near Plymouth, were presented by Mr. William Clift. 

 This is part of the first collection of cavern remains made in 

 England. 



1823. 



Miss Benett's donation was continued. 



Fossil remains from the Kirkdale Cave, Vale of Pickering, 

 Yorkshire, were presented by Messrs. William Salmond and 

 John Gibson. 



