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that Society in 1893. Other selections from the latter collection were 

 presented to the Museums of Valetta, Bologna, and Edinburgh. 



Cookson (GEORGE) 



The Kev. G. Cookson, of Writhlington, made a collection of fossils 

 from the Oolite below the Bradford Clay at Ancliffe ( = Avon cliff), near 

 Bradford, Wiltshire, about the year 1825. A list in his writing preserved 

 in the Geological Department, mentions 163 specimens. Many of those 

 were figured in the " Mineral Conchology " of J. Sowerby (g.v.) and 34 

 specimens have been identified in the Sowerby collection. 



Coombe (G. AUGUSTUS) 



Eesident at Peppering, near Arundel, Coombe collected Tertiary and 

 Cretaceous fossils in Sussex. He both lent and gave specimens to 

 Mantell, and assisted Dixon in the preparation of his " Geology and 

 Fossils ... of Sussex " (1850). In 1888, 447 specimens from this col- 

 lection, including some fine fish-remains from the Chalk, were presented 

 to the British Museum by Mr. P. E. Coombe. None of the specimens 

 bore labels. 



Coombe (PERCY E.) 



See COOMBE, G. AUGUSTUS. 



Cooper (Sir DANIEL) 



Presented marsupial remains from the river deposits of Queensland, 

 1861, 1864, 1866. 



Cope (EDWARD DRINKER) 



The collection of fossil Vertebrata made by Prof. Cope was acquired 

 after his death by the American Museum of Natural History, New York. 

 A plaster cast of the unique type-specimen of Phenacodus primxvus 

 contained in it, was purchased from him in 1889. 



Coppinger (RICHARD WILLIAM) 



Coppinger was surgeon on board H.M.S. Discovery, during the Alert 

 and Discovery Arctic- exploring expedition in 1875-76, under the command 

 of Sir George S. Nares, to whose narrative of the voyage he contributed a 

 Keport on the Petermann Glacier. The fine series of fossils which he 

 collected during the expedition, together with the specimens obtained by 

 Captain Feilden, Lieut. Aldrich, Dr. Moss, and Mr. Hart, were described 

 by Mr. R. Etheridge, Senior, in his paper on the " Palaeontology of the 

 Coasts of the Arctic Lands visited by the late British Expeditions, etc." 

 (Quart. Journ. GeoL Soc., 1878). The collection, which includes the 

 specimens figured by Mr. Etheridge, was presented to the Museum by 

 the Lords of the Treasury in December, 1878. 



Corner (FRANK) 



Dr. Comer has collected extensively from the superficial deposits of 

 the London district. In 1896 he presented to the Museum some non- 

 marine Mollusca from these formations. 



Gotta (C. BERNHARD VON) [1808-1879] 



This eminent geologist, who from 1842 to 1874 was professor at 

 Freiberg in Saxony, was initiated in the study of fossil botany by his 

 father Forstmeister Heinrich Cotta, who had made a large collection of 

 fossil woods and " Staarsteine " from the Permian rocks near Chemnitz 



