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Crofton (ADDISON) 



Presented Mollusca from the Carboniferous Limestone of Yorkshire, 

 1898. 



Croizet (L'AbU) 



An inhabitant of the Auvergne, Croizet published observations on its 

 geology. He collected a series of vertebrate fossils, chiefly Mammalia, 

 from the Oligocene and Miocene freshwater deposits, and sold a selection 

 to the British Museum in 1848. His collection also includes some antlers 

 of reindeer from a rock-shelter at Neschers, a few cut by man, and one 

 bearing the incised figure of a horse. 



Cumberland (GEORGE) [1752-1848] 



After passing through the course at the Royal Academy as an honorary 

 student, Cumberland visited the art-treasures of Italy, and in 1792 settled 

 in Bristol, where he studied the local geology and collected fossils, 

 especially crinoids, sending his results to the Geological Society, which 

 occasionally published them in its Transactions and always kept his 

 donations. In 1826, Cumberland published his little "Reliquiae Con- 

 servatse" with admirable lithographs by himself and his wife. In it, 

 under the name Amphora, he first described the geous now called 

 Amphoracrinus. A specimen of the " 2nd species " of this, collected on 

 the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire, had been presented by him to 

 the British Museum in 1825, as " a new variety of nave encrinite." The 

 specimens of Apiocrinus figured in this book, with other fossils of his 

 collection, were bought by J. Hey wood, M.P., for the Manchester 

 Geological Society in 1842, and were transferred to the Museum at the 

 Owens College in 1864. Cumberland was the first to find Marsupites at 

 Brighton, and figured some in his book. Subsequently he distributed 

 privately, as an appendix to " Reliquias," various plates illustrating fossil 

 crinoids. His collection as a whole was mentioned by the West of 

 England Journal (1835) as the finest in Bristol, and fossil fishes from it 

 were lent to Agassiz. 



Cunningham (ROBERT 0.) 



Dr. Cunningham discovered the jaws of Homalodontotlierium cunning- 

 hami in the Santa Cruz Beds of Patagonia, presented by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty, 1874. 



Cunnington (WILLIAM) [1813- ] 



As grandson on the mother's side, of William Cunnington, F.S.A., of 

 Heytesbury, Wilts, an active geologist and a friend of Win. Smith, 

 Mr. Cunnington had early opportunities of seeing his collection of fossil 

 sponges, and so, at the age of seven, began his own collection from the 

 flint-heaps by the roadside, and a little later from the Chalk-pits of 

 Upavon. Subsequently settled at Devizes, where he was honorary 

 curator of the local museum from its commencement in 1853, he seized 

 the numerous opportunities afforded by the construction of the railway 

 there, as also at Farringdon, Swindon, Chippenham, and Trowbridge, to 

 amass a remarkable collection and to become familiar with the geological 

 details of the country (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1850, pp. 453 and 

 454). Mr. Cunnington also made purchases from Wm. Buy (<?.#.), e.g., 

 of a Bdemnoteuthis described by Owen (Phil Trans., 1844) and by 

 himself (London Q-eol. Journ., 1847) ; from T. Berrett of Steeple Ashton, 

 and (after the decease of Miss Benett [g.v.]), from J. Baker. Thus, 

 before he left Wiltshire in 1874, his collection contained more than 



