286 Geology. 



The bulk of his collection of British Eocene and Oligocene Mollusca, 

 numbering 39,000 shells and containing the originals of his various 

 publications, was purchased in 1872-1873, a second series of foreign 

 specimens being bought through Mr. W. Kinsey in 1875. A systematic 

 list of the British collection, by Mr. R. B. Newton, was published by the 

 Trustees in 1891. All the Mollusca are still preserved on the original 

 paper-covered tablets, labelled in Edwards' own hand. 



Egerton (Sir PHILIP MALPAS DE GKEY) [1806-1881] 



Sir Philip Egerton, tenth Baronet, an elected Trustee of the British 

 Museum, studied geology under Conybeare and Buckland, and after 

 graduating at Oxford travelled abroad with his college friend, Lord Cole 

 (afterwards Earl of Enniskillen). He began scientific work with his 

 companion by exploring some of the caverns of Franconia, where the 

 joint researches resulted in a large collection of remains of the Cave Bear 

 and other Pleistocene Mammalia. Journeying to Neuchatel about 1830, 

 Egerton and Lord Cole became acquainted with Louis Agassiz, who 

 aroused their interest in fossil fishes and induced them to become life- 

 long collectors of these fossils. They decided to form two distinct 

 cabinets, but to share acquisitions and the counterpart-halves of unique 

 or valuable specimens. Their early collections were largely used by 

 Agassiz when preparing his "Recherches sur les Poissons fossiles" 

 (1838-44), and they contain a large proportion of his type-specimens, 

 besides other specimens labelled and noticed by him. In later years, 

 Egerton himself also described many of his own fossils. The whole of 

 the collection, including the cave bones and miscellaneous fossil Inver- 

 tebrata, in addition to the fossil fishes, was purchased from the executors 

 of the late Sir Philip Egerton in 1882.' 



Ellis (FREDERICK) 



Collected fossils from the Rhajtic of Aust Cliff, a selection purchased 

 1896. 

 Else (WILLIAM) 



Collected Mammalian remains from the Bench Cavern, Brixham, near 

 Torquay, a selection purchased 1889. 



Elter (CHARLES) 



Presented skull of Rhinoceros antiquitatis from Siberia, 1813. 



Elwes (J. W.) 



Presented fossils from the London Clay of Fareham, 1890. 



Enniskillen (WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Third Earl of} I" 1807- 



1886] 



Lord Enniskillen (at first Lord Cole) collected in association with Sir 

 Philip Egerton (?..), and his complete collection was purchased in two 

 instalments in 1882 and 1883. In addition to the fossil fishes and 

 Franconian cave bones, this collection included several valuable fossil 

 Vertebrata, notably a skeleton of Cervus giganteus from Ireland, and the 

 type-specimen of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus from the Lower Lias of 

 Lyme Regis. 



Enys (JOHN DAVIES) 



Obtained for the Museum a collection of bones of birds from the 

 Chatham Islands, purchased 1898. 



