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of St. Ives. Some Teleosaurian remains from the Great Oolite were 

 purchased from him by the British Museum in 1888, but the greater part 

 of his collection from that formation was acquired by the Northampton 

 Museum. Selections of 1730 fossils from the Bed Chalk, including 

 Polyzoa described by G. E. Vine, 1010 fossils from the Oxford Clay of 

 St. Ives, and 2709 fossils from the Cambridge Greensand were purchased 

 from him by the British Museum in 1891, 1892, and 1894 respectively. 



Jeunneret 



Collected Australian Palaeozoic Brachiopoda, presented by Lord 

 Stanley, 1846. 



Jex 



A collector for the dealer E. Damon and his successor, E. F. Damon. 

 Obtained Scottish Old Eed Sandstone and Carboniferous Fishes purchased 

 at various times from Damon. Also collected fish-remains from the 

 Devonian of Canada, purchased from Damon, 1888 and 1892, and 

 Mammalia from the Santa Cruz beds of Patagonia, purchased from 

 Damon, 1899. 



Johnson (HENRY) [1823-1885] 



In the exercise of his profession as a civil and mining engineer in the 

 Midlands, H. Johnson of Dudley had many opportunities for collecting 

 fine specimens of fossils. These " he cherished with personal care and 

 skilful manipulation, exhibiting their parts and characters clearly and 

 with judgment, so that the palaeontologist visiting his wonderfully rich 

 collection, not only saw specimens better than he had seen before, but 

 always found a judicious selection of doubtful or unknown forms... 

 separated for examination by the specialist " (Geol. Mag , 1885, p. 432). 

 On Johnson's death, 2524 selected fossils from his collection were purchased 

 through the dealer, E. Damon. Of these 1551 were from the Wenlock 

 Beds, and consisted of 28 sponges, 466 corals, 211 echinoderms, 192 

 arthropods, 25 annelids, 136 polyzoans, and 493 molluscs ; 973 were from 

 the Carboniferous rocks of the neighbourhood, and of them 759 were 

 plants, 79 arthropods, 105 molluscs, and 30 the remains of fishes. The 

 best known of these choice specimens is the type of Eucladia johnsoni, 

 H. Woodward. 



Johnson (JAMES R.) [ -1845] 



In medical practice at Hot Wells, Bristol, Johnson was a wealthy 

 collector of fine fossils. His collection is mentioned in the West of 

 England Journal (1835) as "particularly distinguished by the truly 

 gigantic Ichthyosaurian remains which it contains." It was visited by 

 Agassiz when he came to England to study fossil fishes. At Johnson's 

 death, his collection was sold at Stevens', and, as the Austins say, " the 

 treasures which it had taken a long life to accumulate were dispersed 

 throughout the civilised world." A catalogue of the sale is in the library 

 of the Geological Department. The British Museum then obtained a 

 number of specimens of varied nature, including several Mesozoic fishes, 

 and some remains of Crinoidea, a few of the latter figured by T. and T. 

 Austin (q.v.\ notably the wonderful group from the Upper Lias of 

 Bridport, described by them under the name of Pentacrinus johnsoni. 



Johnson (JAMES YATE) 



Presented Tertiary Mollusca from Madeira, 1857. 



