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(Psaronius, Tempskya, Medullosa, etc.). To their investigation young 

 Cotta returned from his studies in Freiberg and Heidelberg, and thus was 

 one of the earliest to use the microscope in determining the structure of 

 fossil plants. His results were published in "Die Dendrolithen in 

 Beziehung auf ihren inneren Bau" (1832). During a short visit to 

 London, he made the acquaintance of the botanist Kobert Brown, and, on 

 his return to Saxony to assume the post of teacher at the forestry institute 

 in Tharandt, became the intermediary between the British Museum and 

 his father, with the result that, in 1839, half of the latters collection, 

 containing several of the figured specimens, was bought by the Trustees. 



Cottle (JOSEPH) [1770-1853] 



This well-known Bristol bookseller and poet, the friend of Words- 

 worth and Coleridge, explored the Oreston caverns near Plymouth in 

 1822-23, and published an account of his observations in an appendix to 

 his work on "Malvern Hills" (1829). About sixty teeth and bones 

 discovered by him were purchased by the British Museum in 1876, but 

 the greater part of his collection is in the Bristol Museum. 



Cowderoy (Miss) [ -1852] 



This lady lived in Portman Square, where she had gathered about 

 2000 fossils of both vertebrates and invertebrates, mainly from the 

 Eocene and Oligocene beds of England and Nice, but also from the 

 Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of Britain. The collection was bequeathed 

 by her to the Trustees. 



Cracherode (CLAYTON MORDAUNT) [1730-1799] 



Though ordained a minister of the Church of England, Cracherode 

 devoted his time, talents, and ample fortune to the collection of books 

 and rarities of art and nature, all which were bequeathed by him to the 

 nation. The shells and minerals, though forming a relatively small part 

 of the collection, were valued at 2000. They included one hundred fossil 

 animals and six fossil plants, some of which had been obtained from Lord 

 Bute's collection. Several can still be identified by bearing a small oblong 

 ticket of white paper with truncate corners, on which is the catalogue 

 number preceded by ZZ in the case of animals, and AAA in the case of 

 plants. There are in the Mineral Department, two distinct MS. lists of 

 this portion of the Cracherode collection (which used to be exhibited to 

 the public with the Cracherodean minerals), and with one of them the 

 numbers and signs correspond. These lists are of some interest as giving 

 the names used by the older naturalists, e.g., " the Anthropomorphus 

 Dudleyensis or Dudley fossil." Some specimens have been marked by a 

 later hand with a pink disc bearing the name " Cracherode." 



Cremorne (Lord) 



Presented pair of antlers of Irish deer, 1791. 



Croft (CHARLES) 



In his younger days, the present editor of the Keighley News resided 

 in Shropshire, and made a collection of Trilobites and other fossil inverte- 

 brates from the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian rocks of the neigh- 

 bourhood, especially a fine series from the Bala beds of Ty-Isaf. When 

 Mr. Croft moved to Plymouth, he sold to the British Museum a selection 

 from this collection, representing 572 species, mainly trilobites. These 

 specimens, acquired in 1873, are neatly labelled in his own hand, on 

 oblong tickets of bluish paper. 



