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of it, comprising 263 specimens, was presented to the Museum by Mr. 

 McMurtrie in 1894. 



MacPherson (WILLIAM) 



Collected and presented fossils from the English Chalk, 1899, 1900. 



Madeley (WILLIAM) 



For many years secretary to the Dudley and Midland Geological 

 Society, Mr." Madeley, who formerly lived in Dudley, was in a good 

 position to acquire choice specimens, of which he always carefully noted 

 the locality and precise horizon. His collection included a metatype of 

 otryocrinus pinnulatus, originally in the J. Gray collection, and a co- 

 type of Thenarocrinus callipyyus. He also purchased a metatype of the 

 latter species from the Ketley collection. On moving to his present 

 residence in Stourbridge, Mr. Madeley sold a number of his specimens to 

 the dealer, R. Damon. In 1894 the Museum received, as an exchange, 

 80 of those specimens, consisting of Wenlock corals and Polyzoa, while, 

 in the following year, it purchased the remainder, namely, 33 Cystidea, 

 including a valuable series of Placocystis, and 55 Crinoidea, including the 

 figured specimens. 



Major (CHARLES IMMANUEL FORSYTH) 



In the course of his researches on extinct Mammalia, Dr. Major has 

 made several important collections, among which may be mentioned those 

 of Lower Pliocene Mammalia from the Island of Samos and from Olivola 

 (N. Italy), Miocene Mammalia and Birds from France, small Pleistocene 

 bones from the caves of Sardinia and Corsica, and remains of Mammalia 

 and Birds from the surface deposits of Madagascar. One part of the 

 Samos Collection was purchased from Dr. Major by the British Museum 

 in two instalments in 1889 and 1890 ; while the other part was purchased 

 by Mr. Barbey of Geneva. The Olivola Collection was purchased by the 

 Museum in two instalments in 1895 and 1897. French, Corsican, and 

 Sardinian fossils were purchased by the Museum in 1893, 1894, and 1900. 

 Madagascar fossils, including important remains of Aepyornithes, obtained 

 with the aid of a government grant, were presented to the Museum by 

 the Council of the Royal Society in 1898. A reconstructed skeleton of 

 Hippopotamus madagascariensis, from Madagascar, was purchased by 

 the Museum from Dr. Major in 1900. Many of these specimens have 

 been described by Dr. Major himself in various British and foreign 

 publications. 



Mansel-Pleydell (JOHN CLAVELL) [1817-1902] 



Mansel, who assumed the name Mansel-Pleydell in 1870, was a 

 landowner in Dorsetshire, who devoted much attention to the geology 

 and natural history of that county. He collected the local fossils and 

 presented them as he acquired them, partly to the British Museum, 

 partly to the Dorset County Museum. His earliest donations to the 

 British Museum, beginning in 1862, were reptilian remains from the 

 Kimmeridge Clay, nearly all of importance, and described by J. W. 

 Hulke and R. Owen. One of his latest donations, received in 1889, was 

 a tooth of Elephas meridionalis, discovered by himself, with other 

 remains of the same animal, in a fissure in the Chalk at Dewlish, Dorset 

 (see 0. Fisher, Quart. Journ. Oeol. Soc., 1888). He also presented in 

 1897 fish-remains figured by Egerton (1869), and, in 1884, the types of 

 two Oolitic corals, Dimorplioseris oolitica and Thamnastnea manseli of 

 Duncan. 



