308 Geology. 



Lyell (Sir CHARLES) 



During his foreign travels, when occupied with geological researches, 

 Sir Charles Lyell made several small collections. In 1844, accompanied 

 by Sir J. William Dawson, he collected a series of Carboniferous Inverte- 

 brata, which were studied by de Verneuil and enumerated, with his 

 memoranda, in Lyell's " Travels in North America," 1845. This col- 

 lection was presented to the Museum of Practical Geology, whence it was 

 transferred to the British Museum in 1880. Fossil Invertebrata from the 

 Canaries were presented by him to this Museum in 1856 and 1860, from 

 Madeira in 1857. The type-specimen of Cephalaspis lyelli and bones of 

 Trogontherium described in Owen's "British Fossil Mammals," were also 

 among Sir Charles Lyell's donations, which began in 1829. 



MacCullough (D. M.) 



Collected and presented Pteraspidian fishes from the Lower Old Red 

 Sandstone of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, 1883. 



MacDonald (ROBERT) 



Collected and presented Pleistocene Mammalian remains from the 

 Porcupine River, Canada, 1873. 



MacLeod (Sir NORMAN) 



Presented Old Red Sandstone Fishes from Scotland, 1847. 



McCormick (ROBERT) [1800-1890] 



In his capacity as naval surgeon, McCormick was sent three times to 

 the West Indies, while in 1827 he went with Parry to the Arctic, and in 

 1839 with Ross to the Antarctic Regions. In 1852 he again visited the 

 Arctic Regions, leading a boat expedition up the Wellington Channel. He 

 bequeathed to the nation 250 fossils, chiefly Brachiopoda, collected by him 

 in the Arctic Regions, Madeira, Tasmania, the Falkland Isles, and 

 Kerguelen Island, and occasionally referred to in his book, " Voyages of 

 Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas and round the World" 

 (1854). 



McEnery (JOHN) [17 -1841] 



For many years Chaplain, at Tor Abbey, McEnery devoted his leisure 

 to the exploration of the caverns near Torquay. While collecting the 

 mammalian remains, between 1825 and 1829, he accumulated many notes 

 and drawings, which he would have published had his appeal for sub- 

 scriptions been responded to. These remained unpublished until 1859, 

 when Mr. Edward Vivian edited the MSS. and used the prepared plates 

 of illustrations in a posthumous work, " Cavern Researches." On the 

 death of McEnery, his collections and MSS. were dispersed by auction, 

 and a large series of the specimens from Kent's Cavern was purchased by 

 the Trustees of the British Museum in 1842. Some of McEnery's 

 figured specimens are in this collection, others in that of the Geological 

 Society, and a few in the Torquay Museum. The collection of J. E. Lee 

 (q.v.) contained 106 " original specimens of McEnery from Kent's Cavern, 

 bought at Newton." 



McMurtrie (JAMES) 



Alderman McMurtrie, of Radstock, manager of the Somerset estates of 

 Lord Carlingford, devoted about thirty years to the collection of fossil 

 plants from the Somersetshire Coal Measures. His valuable collection 

 was studied and partly described by Mr. R. Kidston, and the greater part 



