276 Geology. 



Carpenter (PHILIP HERBERT) [1852-1891] 



The fourth son of W. B. Carpenter, and author of the " Challenger " 

 Reports on Crinoidea, Carpenter was associated with R. Etheridge, 

 Junior, in the preparation of the " Catalogue of the Blastoidea in the . . . 

 British Museum" (1886). In connection with this work he obtained 

 specimens, chiefly from Spain, and, after figuring, presented them to the 

 Museum. 



Carpenter (WILLIAM BENJAMIN) [1813-1885] 



In his later years Dr. Carpenter accumulated an extensive series of 

 specimens, preparations, and drawings to illustrate the nature of Eozoon 

 canadense, and its resemblances to various Foraminiferal skeletons and 

 mineral structures. At the time of his death this research was incom- 



S'ete, and the whole collection of materials was presented to the British 

 useum by his son, Rev. J. Estlin Carpenter in 1892. 



Carruthers (WILLIAM) 



Presented Palaeozoic fossils from South Africa, 1887. 



Carter (HENRY JOHN) [1813-1895] 



While a medical officer in Bombay, Carter occupied himself with 

 researches on sponges and the skeletons of other low invertebrates. He 

 also studied the geology of Western India and collected fossil specimens of 

 the groups in which he was interested. He made five small donations to 

 the Museum between 1882 and 1889, including Foraminifera, sponges, 

 and stromatoporoids, some illustrative of his own writings. He also 

 collected about 100 fragments of Vertebrata from the Trias near Sid- 

 mouth, Devonshire, where he subsequently resided. This collection was 

 described by A. T. Metcalfe in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society (1884), and was presented by Carter to the Museum in 1883. 



Castelli (F.) 



A selection of 1272 North Italian fossils was purchased through 

 Mr. R. F. Damon from the Castelli Museum, Leghorn, on its dispersal in 

 1898. The mammalian fragments included teeth of Semnojrithecus, 

 Antilope, and Hipparion from Lower Pliocene, Casino, described by 

 Ristori and Forsyth Major; also teeth of Equus caballus from Monte 

 Tignosa, described by Forsyth Major. 



Cautley (Sir PROBY T.) [1802-1871] 



Colonel Cautley and Dr. Hugh Falconer (g-.v.) devoted their leisure 

 for eight years to the discovery of mammalian and reptilian remains in 

 the Lower Pliocene sandstones of the Siwalik Hills, India. The whole 

 collection, contained in 214 cases, each weighing about 4 cwt., was sent to 

 England in 1840 by Cautley, who offered it to the Geological Society, but, 

 for want of room, it had to be declined and was placed in the British 

 Museum, whose masons were occupied for several years in extracting the 

 fossils from their hard matrix. A few fish-remains from the same 

 formation were subsequently presented by Cautley in 1847. The collection 

 was intended to form the subject of Falconer and Cautley's "Fauna 

 Antiqua Sivalensis," for which many plates were drawn, but of which 

 only nine small fasciculi were published (1844-47). Falconer's notes on 

 the specimens, with copies of many unpublished figures, were included in 

 his posthumous " Palseontological Memoirs," edited by Charles Murchison, 

 M.D., F.R.S. 



