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travelled much as a Medical Officer in Canada in connection with the 

 Boundary Commission, and made a large collection of Palasozoic fossils 

 both in that country and in the north-east part of the United States. 

 The results of his researches were published chiefly in Silliman's 

 American Journal of Science between 1820 and 1827. He presented 

 his collection to the British Museum in 1851. Other specimens from the 

 Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Canada, presented by him to the Museum 

 of Practical Geology, were transferred to the British Museum in 1880. 



Binkhorst (J. F.) 



Belgian Tertiary Mollusca, purchased 1857. 



Birch (Colonel) 



In 1820, some Chalk Echinoderms and some fossils from the Dorset- 

 shire Lias were presented by this gentleman, who lived at Bath. The 

 rest of his collection, which was sold at auction on May 15, 1820, by 

 Bullock " in his Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly," included valuable remains of 

 Reptilia and Crinoidea from the Lias of Lyme and Charmouth, many 

 collected by Miss Mary Anning. (See G. A. Mantell, London Geol. 

 Journ., p. 13; 1846). Several of these were bought for the British 

 Museum, which also possesses the copy of the sale-catalogue that belonged 

 to " the fossil shop at Lyme," signed Joseph Anning. 



Bishop (Mrs.) 



See SMITH [Mrs.] M. H. 



Blackmore (HUMPHREY PURNELL) 

 Presented Cretaceous Polyzoa, 1897. 



Blake (JOHN FREDERICK) 



Teleosaurian skull from Upper Lias of Whitby and Petolatochelys 

 Uakei from Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth, purchased 1880. Jurassic 

 Invertebrata from Normandy, purchased from Mrs. J. F. Blake, 1895. 



Bland 



Presented Ichthyosaurus from the Lias of Balderton, Nottinghamshire, 



Blanford (WILLIAM THOMAS) [1832- ] 



Dr. Blanford, late of the Geological Survey of India, accompanied an 

 expedition to Abyssinia in 1868 as geologist. He published a volume, 

 "Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia," in 1870. He 

 presented his collection of Abyssinian fossils, including the specimens 

 described in his work, to the Museum, 1869. 



Bloemfontein Museum 



Skulls of Tritylodon longsevus and Rhytidosteus capensis from the 

 Karoo Formation of South Africa, obtained by exchange, 1884. 



Bosquet (J.) 



Cretaceous and Tertiary Entomostraca, purchased 1870. 



