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to add to the collection. The Invertebrata and two Fishes, described by 

 D. Sharpe and others in A. G. Bain's memoir " On the Geology of South 

 Africa" (Trans. GeoL Soc., 1856), are preserved hi the Museum of the 

 Geological Society. 



Baker (ANNE ELIZABETH) [1786-1861] 



The sister of George Baker, Miss Baker contributed to his great 

 " History of the County of Northampton " (1822-41) the chapters on 

 geology and botany, and herself published a " Glossary of Northampton- 

 shire Words and Phrases." Lack of support forced Baker to sell his 

 library and collection of MSS. in 1842, and in the following year the 

 geological collection was purchased for the Museum from his sister. It 

 comprised Pleistocene vertebrates and Jurassic vertebrates and inverte- 

 brates, all from Northamptonshire, including a Fossil Fish a Lepidotus 

 from Nine Churches figured by Miss Baker in the " History " and 

 mentioned by Agassiz (Poissons fossiles). Gummed on the specimens 

 are white paper labels with the localities in a fine, clear handwriting. 



Baker (JOHN) 



Invertebrata from Upper Greensand, Warminster, purchased 1849. 



Baker (General Sir WILLIAM ERSKINE) 



Presented skull of Elephas ganesa from Siwalik formation of India in 

 1845, Tertiary Invertebrata from Sind in 1849 and 1855. 



Ball (JOHN) 



Pleistocene Mammalia from Thames Valley, purchased 1844. 



Ball (JOHN, F.R.S.) 



Presented Miocene Mollusca from Morocco, 1885. 



Balston (WILLIAM EDWAKD) 



Presented Devonian fossils from South Africa, 1885. 



Barnes (JOHN) 



Presented English Lower Carboniferous Invertebrata, 1897. 



Baron (RICHARD) 



The Eev. R. Baron, a missionary in Madagascar, has studied the 

 geology of that country and published papers thereon in the Antana- 

 narivo Annual and in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society (1889 and 1895), these latter being accompanied by descriptions 

 of the fossils collected by Mr. Baron, from the pen of Mr. R. B. Newton. 

 These specimens have been presented by Mr. Baron to the British 

 Museum, and comprise 250 Eocene and Jurassic fossils, given in 1889 ; 

 the type-skull of Steneosaurus baroni, R. B. Newton, received and 

 described in 1893 ; and 135 fossil invertebrates and plants, handed over 

 in 1895. 



Barrande (JOACHIM) [1799-1883] 



In 1831, Barrande settled in Bohemia as tutor, and subsequently 

 steward, to Prince Henri de Chambord, and soon turned his attention to 

 elucidating the geology and palaeontology of the Lower Paleozoic (Cambrian 



