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20,000 specimens, and was the subject of frequent references in the 

 Wiltshire ArcJueologirt, and in Murray's "Handbook of Wiltshire" 

 (1859). So early as 1849 the Museum bought several British fossils 

 from Mr. Cunnington. In 1859 he presented Cretaceous invertebrates, 

 and in 1861 a further purchase was made from him. In 1865, at the 

 special request of Murchison, he sold to the Museum of Practical Geology 

 a fine series of Upper Greensand Sponges, many subsequently described 

 by Dr. G. J. Hinde. In 1875, when the reduction of his collection was 

 imperative, the British Museum had the first choice and purchased, in 

 two instalments, several thousand specimens of Cretaceous and Jurassic 

 fossils from Wiltshire. These included, among the Cephalopoda, many 

 type-specimens of D. Sharpe (Palseontogr. Soc., 1853-55) ; among Crus- 

 tacea Decapoda numerous specimens figured by T. Bell (Palgeontogr. 

 Soc., 1860); Cretaceous Brachiopoda figured by T. Davidson ( Palseontogr. 

 Soc., 1852) ; and many of T. Wright's types of Cretaceous Echinoderrna 

 ( Palseontogr. Soc., 1862-67). There was also yet another fine series of 

 sponges from the Upper Greensand of Warminster and the Lower Green- 

 sand of Farringdon (see Dr. Hinde's " Catalogue of Fossil Sponges in the 

 British Museum," 1883). Mr. Cunnington has subsequently made 

 isolated donations of valuable specimens, among them being blastoids and 

 crinoids from Kentucky and Alabama, collected by his uncle, John 

 Cunnington, resident for many years in the latter State. Mr. Cunningtou's 

 series of Wiltshire mammalian remains, as well as a few local specimens, 

 were presented by him to the Devizes Museum. It is worth noting that 

 he never came into possession of any of his grandfather's collection, all of 



whose fossils were purchased soon alter his decease by Dr. C. H. Parry of 

 Bath, while his collection of antiquities was bought by Sir 11. C. Hoare, 

 and is now in the museum at Devizes. 



Cuvier (Baron GEORGES) 



Presented mammalian remains and plaster casts of the same from the 

 Gypsum Quarries near Paris, 1818, 1822. 



Daintree (RICHARD) 



Presented Marsupial remains from the river-deposits of Queensland, 

 1871. Collected Australian fossil Invertebrata, presented by his executor, 

 1879. 

 Daly (W. MAHON) 



Presented Carboniferous Limestone from Siam, 1900. 

 Darwin (CHARLES) 



Presented two South American fossil brachiopods, 1852, and some 

 fossil Cirripedes, 1854. 



Darbishire (ROBERT DUKINFIELD) 



Mr. Darbishire, of Manchester, has studied and collected the marine 

 shells from the Glacial Drift of central England. In 1889 he presented 

 to the Museum his collection from the Drifts of Macclesfield, Blackpool, 

 Garston, Worden Hall, and Kelsey Hill, altogether about 1400 specimens. 

 The Macclesfield Collection was described by him in the Memoirs of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1865), also tabulated 

 in Geol. Mag., vol. ii, p. 298. 



Damon (ROBERT) [1814-1899] 



This well-known Weymouth dealer in natural history specimens made 

 a private collection of about 400 Dorsetshire fossils to illustrate his 



