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Her (G. C. E.) 



Molar of Mastodon angustidens from the Red Crag of Foxall, Suffolk, 

 purchased 1888. 



Ketley (CHARLES) 



Living at Smethwick, near Birmingham, Ketley utilised the oppor- 

 tunities afforded to him as a civil and mining engineer, of collecting 

 specimens from the Wenlock Beds and Coal Measures of Dudley, 

 Malvern Tunnel, and the district. The Museum made small purchases 

 from him in 1866, 1869, 1870, 1873, 1874, and among these a series of 

 the rare cystid Placocystis, and another of the coral Goniophyllum, are 

 noticeable. Specimens from his collection are in many other museums, 

 e.g. the Woodwardian at Cambridge; but on his death his main col- 

 lection was acquired by the Mason College, now Birmingham University, 

 a few remaining in the possession of his son, Mr. C. B. Ketley. One 

 of the latter, figured by Bather (1891) as Thenarocrinus callipyyus, 

 ultimately reached the Museum in the collection of Mr. W. Madeley. 



Kidston (ROBERT) 



Collected Coal-plants from the Radstock and Forest of Dean Coalfields, 

 presented by the Council of the Royal Society, 1885, 1887. 



Kimbley (HUGH) 



Presented Devonian Pentremites from Kentucky, 1890. 



King (WILLIAM) 



Presented Syringosphxra from the Karakoram, Kashmir, 1890. 



Kirkby (J. W.) 



Collected Palaeozoic Ostracoda, purchased 1888. 



Klipstein (AUGUSTUS VON) [1801-1894] 



Appointed Professor of Mineralogy at Giessen in 1836, Klipstein at 

 once entered into correspondence with the British Museum, but it was 

 not until he had published his " Beitrage zur geologischen Kenntniss der 

 Ostlichen Alpen " (1843) that the bargaining began seriously. At last, in 

 1851, the Trustees bought from him a collection of 6147 specimens, 

 mostly from the St. Cassian beds, and including all those specimens in his 

 own possession that were figured in the above work. Most classes of 

 Invertebrata were represented, as well as the reptilian fragments de- 

 scribed by H. v. Meyer in the same book, and a few fish-remains. The 

 collection further comprised specimens from other Triassic beds and other 

 localities of the Tyrol, e.g. Muschelkalk, Wengener Schichten, and 

 Raibler Schichten, also Cretaceous corals from Gosau, and Tertiary 

 fossils from Brand enberger Thai, N. Tyrol. The collection was divided 

 into 1030 lots, numbered consecutively, and each with one or more labels 

 in Klipstein's handwriting, usually on pink paper. Not merely is this 

 the chief collection of Keuper fossils in the Museum, but its value to the 

 student may be judged from Zittel's statement that Klipstein increased 

 the St. Cassian fauna by more than 300 species, " deren Begrundung und 

 Beschreibung freilich manches zu wiinschen lasst." Other series of 

 Klipstein's collecting are to be seen at Budapest and elsewhere, but that 

 in the British Museum is the one by which his work must be interpreted. 



Knight (THOMAS A.) 



Presented Silurian Trilobites, 1836. 



