260 Geology. 



3. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT CONTRIBU- 

 TORS TO THE COLLECTION OF FOSSILS IN THE DEPART- 

 MENT OF GEOLOGY. 



Abbott (W. J. LEWIS) 



Collected and presented non-marine Mollusca from Thames deposits at 

 Whitehall, 1901. 



Adams (ANDREW LEITH) [ -1882] 



Between 1848 and 1873 Leith Adams was an army surgeon, and made 

 many observations in Natural History while on foreign service. In 1865 

 he visited Malta to report on an epidemic of cholera, and while there he 

 explored some of the ossiferous fissures, from which he obtained numerous 

 remains of pigmy elephants (Elephas melitensis, &c.) and a large rodent 

 (Leithia melitensis). This collection was described by Leith Adams in 

 his " Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta " (1870), and 

 was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1873. 



Admiralty, Lords of the 



Presented human skeleton from Guadaloupe in 1813, jaws of Homalo- 

 dontotherium from Patagonia, 1874. 



Agassiz (Louis) 



Oligocene fishes from Canton Glarus, Switzerland, purchased 1837. 



Albany Museum, S. Africa 



Presented Palaxmiscid fish from Karoo Formation, 1874. 



Allport (SAMUEL) [1816-1897] 



In early life Allport spent eight years at Bahia, Brazil, and while 

 there he made an important small collection of fossils from the Cretaceous 

 rocks of the neighbouring coast, which he described in 1859 (Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc.) and presented to the British Museum in 1894. On his 

 return to England, Allport settled in Birmingham, where he conducted 

 those petrological researches by which he is best known. At the same 

 time he made and himself prepared a valuable collection from the Silurian 

 rocks of the neighbourhood, and this was purchased in 1871 and 1873 ; 

 many of the Trilobites, Molluscs, and Echinoderms were specially fine, 

 the last yielding two co-types of Thenarocrinus callipygus. 



Alstone (JOHN) 



Presented Dinosaurian teeth from Portlandian of Aylesbury, 1895. 



Amegbino (FLORENTINO) 



In 1895 Dr. Ameghino, now Director of the National Museum, Buenos 

 Ayres, described a remarkable series of bird-remains from the Santa Cruz 

 Formation of Patagonia (Bol. Instit. Oeograf. Argent.). This collection 

 of 380 specimens, made by his brother Carlos Ameghino, was purchased 

 by the British Museum from Dr. Ameghino in 1896. 



