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Etheridge (ROBERT) 



Before the former assistant-keeper of the Geological Department 

 entered Government service as palaeontologist to the Geological Survey, 

 he lived at Bristol and here made a collection of fossils from the Silurian, 

 Devonian, Carboniferous, and Jurassic rocks of the neighbourhood, with 

 a few from elsewhere. On coming to London in 1869, Mr. Etheridge 

 sold the whole series of 2342 specimens to the British Museum. They 

 were marked in ink with letters referring to localities and horizons, as 

 explained in a MS. list accompanying the collection. 



Ettingshausen (CONSTANTIN FREIHERR VON) [1826-1897] 



After being for a few years attached to the Geologische Keichsanstalt 

 at Vienna, Baron von Ettingshausen became, in 1854, Professor at the 

 Medical and Surgical Military Academy in that city, and in 1871 went 

 to Graz as Professor of Botany. He was exceedingly active in collecting, 

 and was accustomed to bring home great masses of matrix to be split by 

 the winter frosts. Thus he was able to supply valuable collections to 

 many museums, especially the Geologische Reichsanstalt and Natur- 

 historisches Hofmuseum in Vienna, the Landesmuseum of Steiermark, 

 the University of Graz, and the British Museum. The last-mentioned 

 made extensive purchases from him between the years 1878-1882, during 

 which years he spent much time in London arranging and examining 

 portions of the National Collections, the results of his study being printed 

 by the Eoyal, Geological, and Palseontographical Societies, and in other 

 British publications. The material bought from von Ettingshauseu 

 represented, often by some of the original figured specimens, the Tertiary 

 floras of Styria (notably that of Parschlug), Bohemia, Carniola, and the 

 Tyrol, the Triassic floras of Lunz in Austria and Raibl hi Carinthia, and 

 the Liassic of Funfkirchen in Hungary ; it included important series 

 from the Paleozoic rocks of Bohemia, Moravia, and Styria, the Tertiary 

 of Alum Bay, and various other specimens. Most of the specimens bear 

 a number on a white label 1 cm. square, also a similar label in one of 

 several colours indicating the supposed habitat of the plant when living ; 

 some are provided with the name and locality on a lithographed label in 

 Ettingshausen's own hand; but the majority are without such labels. 

 A list of Ettingshausen's writings, in many of which these specimens were 

 referred to, was published by R. Hoemes (Mitth. naturwiss. Ver. 

 Steiermark, xxxiv., p. 77 ; 1898). 



Evans (CALEB) [1831-1886] 



While employed in the Chancery Pay Office and residing at Hamp- 

 stead, Evans in 1855 took up the study of geology, and collected fossils 

 from the excavations for new sewers in London, and in the railway 

 cuttings close at hand, supplementing this work by vacation studies at 

 the seaside. Thus he accumulated a large collection, some type- 

 specimens from which were bequeathed by him to the Geological Society. 

 A selection from the remainder of his collection was, after his death, 

 bought from Mr. E. Westlake. It comprised 2172 specimens from Neoco- 

 mian, and 1556 from Tertiary rocks, the large majority being invertebrates. 

 Most of Evans' papers were published by the Geologists' Association, the 

 most notable being " On some Sections of Chalk between Croydon and 

 Oxtead, with Observations on the Classification of the Chalk." 



Evans (Sir JOHN) 



Presented a Mammalian tooth (Bolodori) from the Wealden of Hastings, 

 1893. 



