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Baynes (DONALD S.) 



Presented remains of human skeleton from Tilbury Docks, 1887. 



Bean (WILLIAM) 



The son of a market-gardener, to whose business at Scarborough he 

 succeeded, Bean was also a cousin of William Smith and a pioneer in 

 Yorkshire geology. In association with John Williamson (father of 

 Wm. Crawford Williamson) he amassed, during the first half of the 

 nineteenth century, such a collection from the Yorkshire coast as can 

 never be made again. A few of his fossils went with Williamson's 

 collection to the founding of the Scarborough Museum; in 1844 some 

 were presented to the Museum of the Yorkshire Greological Society, now 

 at Leeds ; others are in the York Museum. But in 1859 the finest 

 specimens of Bean's collection, numbering 2588 and representing 1392 

 species, were bought by the Trustees. They included a remarkable series 

 of Oolitic plants from the shales of Gristhorpe and Haiburn, near Scar- 

 borough, some of which are the originals described by Adolph Brongniart, 

 Lindley and Button, Prof. J. Phillips, and Bunbury ; sponges from the 

 Chalk of Flamborough ; corals and molluscs from Malton ; cephalopods 

 from the Lias, Kelloway Kock and Speeton Clay; and molluscs and 

 mammals from the Postpliocene of Bridlingtoa. The specimens are 

 provided with oblong white paper labels, often gummed on, written in a 

 neat, rounded, back-hand, surrounded by a ruled ink line. 



Beche (Sir HENRY T. DE LA) 



Presented English and French Jurassic and Cretaceous fossils, 1837. 



Becher (H. M.) 



Presented Jurassic fishes (Lycoptera sinensis) from Shantung, China, 

 1892. 



Beckles (SAMUEL HUSBAND) [ -1890] 



Beckles was a resident of St. Leonards and made a large collection of 

 fossils from the Wealden strata of that neighbourhood, besides acquiring 

 a few important specimens from the Chalk of Sussex and from other 

 formations. He discovered footprints of Iguanodon in the Wealden 

 sandstone near Hastings, and described these in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 

 1851, 1852, 1854, 1862. He also obtained valuable portions of skeletons 

 of Iguanodon and other Dinosauria from the same formation, which were 

 described by Sir Richard Owen in the Monographs of the Palaeonto- 

 graphical Society. In 1856, with the aid of a grant from the Eoyal 

 Society, Beckles explored the Purbeck Beds near Swanage, and 

 made the most important collection of Mesozoic Mammalian remains 

 hitherto known from Europe. This exploration furnished evidence of two 

 species of a new genus, Plagiaulax, described by Falconer in Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc., 1857; and the whole collection was subsequently 

 described by Owen in his " Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations " 

 (Palseont. Soc., 1871). With the Mammalia were also remains of dwarf 

 crocodiles and other Eeptilia described by Owen in the Monographs of 

 the Palseoutographical Society. The Purbeckian collection was purchased 

 by the Trustees from Beckles hi two instalments in 1876, 1877. One 

 slab of footprints of lyuanodon was presented by him in 1888. The 

 Wealden and general collection, comprising about 500 Vertebrata and 

 2000 Invertebrata, was purchased from his executor in 1891. 



