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Boury (E. DE) 



Presented Paris Eocene Mollusca, 1889. 



Bowerbank (JAMES SCOTT) [1797-1877] 



A wealthy citizen and distiller of London, Bowerbank accumulated,, 

 mainly from British localities and from every horizon, a large collection of 

 fossils, which served as the basis of important researches by himself and 

 others, and was always open to scientific students. Many of the specimens 

 are described in the Monographs of the Palteontographical Society, of which 

 he was founder and first president. He wrote a book on the " Fossil 

 Fruits of the London Clay" (1840), but is chiefly known for his later 

 researches on Sponges. His collection of fossils was purchased for the 

 Museum in two instalments in 1865. It included, besides the Fruits just 

 mentioned, reptilian remains from the London Clay, Chalk, and Wealden ; 

 Crustacea from the London Clay, Greensand, and Oolite ; Cirripedia and 

 Polyzoa from the Crag; Lower Tertiary Mollusca; Chalk Echinoidea 

 all figured in the Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. 

 There were many other fossils of all kinds, some figured in various 

 works. No special form of label ever accompanied the Bowerbank 

 specimens. 



Brady (Sir ANTONIO) [1811-1881] 



Brady began to collect mammalian remains from the Thames brick- 

 earth near his residence at Ilford, Essex, in 1844. In his later years, he 

 was aided by William Davies (Assistant in the Geological Department of 

 the British Museum), who prepared a "Catalogue of the Pleistocene 

 Vertebrata in the Collection of Sir Antonio Brady," privately printed in 

 1874. All the specimens bear printed labels according to this Catalogue. 

 The whole Collection was purchased in 1873. 



Brady (FRANCIS) 



Presented Carboniferous cores from Dover boring, 1893. 



Brady (HENRY BOWMAN) 



Presented Post-Tertiary shells from Solomon Islands, 1887. 



Brander (GUSTAVUS) [1720-1787] 



Of a Swedish family, but born in the city of London, Brander met 

 with success both in business and civic affairs, and, as a patron of the 

 arts and sciences, he was elected a Trustee of the British Museum. 

 While at his country residence at Christchurch, Hants, he collected 

 Eocene fossils " out of the cliffs by the sea coast between Christchurch 

 and Lymington, but more especially about the cliffs by the village of 

 Hordwell "from Barton Cliff, according to Mantell (" Geol. I. of W.," 

 p. 124). A set of these, chiefly consisting of mollusc shells, was 

 presented by him to the Museum in 1765, and was described by his 

 fellow-countryman, D. C. Solander, an officer of the Museum, in a work 

 entitled " Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Musaeo Britannico deposita 

 a Gustavo Brander," London ; 1776. In this book 131 specimens were 

 figured and many new species described, but the collection was doubtless 

 larger. Now, however, only 124 specimens are recognised as having 

 belonged to it, and some of these may belong to subsequent donations of 

 the same kind, which were made by Brander. Forty-two of these 



