304 Geology. 



Koch (ALBERT C.) 



About 1840 Koch brought a large collection of remains of Mastodon 

 americanus from Missouri and exhibited them to the public at Exeter 

 Change in London. This collection was described by Koch himself in a 

 small pamphlet entitled, "Description of the Missourium" (Louisville, 

 1841) and it was reported on by It. Owen (Proc. Geol. Soc., 1842). It 

 was ultimately purchased by the British Museum in 1844, and many of 

 the separate bones were used in the reconstructed skeleton now placed at 

 the entrance to the gallery of Fossil Mammalia. 



Kochibe (T.) 



Presented Kadiolarian Chert from Japan, 1898. 



Koninck (LAURENT GUILLAUME DE) [1809-1887] 



Though Professor of Chemistry at Liege, de Koninck's title to fame 

 rests on his " Description des Animaux Fossiles qui se trouvent dans le 

 Terrain Carbonifere de Belgique " (1842-51), and subsequent works of 

 similar nature. In 1853, on coming to London to receive the Wollaston 

 Fund of the Geological Society, he sold to the British Museum a col- 

 lection of Belgian fossils, representing 500 species from the Carboniferous, 

 125 from the Devonian, and 250 from the Tertiary rocks, in all some 

 3000 specimens. These were accompanied by loose labels in de Koninck's 

 small angular hand on oblong bits of white paper. 



Krantz (A. AND F.) 



Numerous purchases have been made, especially of Continental fossils, 

 from these dealers. They include pigmy elephants from the caverns of 

 Sicily, 1897. 



Kusta (J.) 



Collected fossils from the Lower Permian Gas-coal of Bohemia, 

 including a fossil scorpion (Cyclophthalmus) purchased from him, 1895. 



Laffan (GEORGE BASTABLE) 



Presented antler of Eeindeer and skull of Bison from Thames deposits 

 of Twickenham, 1894. 



Lakin (MICHAEL H.) 



Presented skeleton of Ichthyosaurus platyodon from Lower Lias of 

 Stockton, Warwickshire, 1898. 



Lambert (C. J.) 



Presented Tertiary shells and fish-teeth from Coquimbo, Chili, 1878. 



Lankester (EDWIN RAY) 



Presented a unique specimen of Pteraspis crouchi, showing scales, 

 from the Lower Old Eed Sandstone of Worcestershire, 1873. 



Last~(J. T.) 



Mr. Last has collected zoological specimens in Madagascar for the 

 Hon. Walter Kothschild. In 1894 he found some fossil bones in the 

 marsh deposits of the island, and sent them to the British Museum, which 

 purchased some of them directly from him, others through Mr. E. 

 Gerrard. Among the remains was the original skull of Megaladapis 

 madagascariensis, Forsyth Major. 



