262 Geology. 



Austin (THOMAS, Fort-Major) [1795-1881] 



Having early retired from the army, with the loss of a leg, Major 

 Austin settled for the rest of his life in Bristol. Among other scientific 

 studies he devoted much attention to Fossil Echinoderms, especially the 

 stalked forms, upon which, either alone or in conjunction with his son 

 Thomas, he published several papers in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History between 1842 and 1851. The " Monograph on Eecent 

 and Fossil Crinoidea " by the same authors was begun in 1843 and 

 stopped unfinished in 1849. Austin's own collection is in the Bristol 

 Museum, but several of the specimens illustrated in the Monograph have 

 come into the possession of the nation, e.g. Pentacrinites briar eus, 

 frontispiece ; P. j'ohnsonii, pi. xv., and Poteriocrinus pentagonus, pi. xi., 

 f. 2a, from the J. K. Johnson collection, 1845; Extracrinus briareus, 

 pi. xii., f. Ib, from Canon J. E. Jackson, 1887. Of several specimens 

 from the Carboniferous Limestone of Cleveland Bay, found by Miss Rich 

 and purchased from Wm. Rich, 1867, those figured on pi. ix., ff. 4a, b, c, 

 and pi. xi., f. 2d, have been identified. 



Austin (THOMAS, Junior, Civil and Mining Engineer) 

 See AUSTIN, THOMAS, Fort-Major. 



Australian Museum, Sydney 



Presented plaster casts of skulls of Diprotodon and Nototherium in 

 1858, and Marsupial remains from the Wellington caves in 1870. 



Avebury (JOHN LUBBOCK, 1st Baron) 



Presented part of skull of musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus) from Maiden- 

 head in 1856, two Eocene fishes (Diplomystus and Mioplosus) from 

 Wyoming in 1886, and Nummulitic Limestone from Miirren in 1894. 



Aylesford (Countess of) 



Presented Ichthyolites from Loughborough, 1817. 



Baber (JAMES) [ -1887] 



While carrying on the business of an oil-cloth manufacturer in Knights- 

 bridge, Baber accumulated a large collection of fossils, which was always 

 open to public view, and was more than once alluded to by his friend, 

 Prof. John Morris. It is supposed to have contained the type of Nautilus 

 baberi, Morris and Lycett, 1850, but this specimen has been lost sight of. 

 On the owner's death the collection was broken up, a selection of a mis- 

 cellaneous character being acquired by the British Museum in 1889 from 

 Mrs. Baber, while another portion was selected for the Museum of 

 Aberdeen University, and the remainder was disposed of by auction at 

 Stevens' Rooms in 1890. 



Bain (ANDREW GEDDES) [ -1864] 



For many years Bain was engaged in constructing roads hi Cape 

 Colony, and in the course of this work he first noticed the remains of 

 Fossil Reptiles in the Karoo Formation of that country. He sent all 

 specimens found by him to England, where most of them were described 

 by Owen. His first collection, including the original skulls of Oudenodon 

 baini and Dicynodon leoniceps, was presented by him to the British 

 Museum in 1853. Other important donations followed, and after his 

 death, his son, Mr. Thomas Bain, who was also a road surveyor, continued 



