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Martin (HANDEL T.) 



Collected fossils from the Chalk of Kansas, including Uintacrinus and 

 the wing-bones of Pteranodon, purchased in 1895 and 1900. 



Martin (WILLIAM) [1767-1810] 



The son of a hosier of Marefield, Nottinghamshire, Martin spent his 

 childhood on the provincial stage. But in his twelfth year, taking 

 drawing-lessons from James Bolton of Halifax, he also imbibed from him 

 a taste for natural history. He earned his living as a drawing-master, first 

 at Burton-on-Trent, then at Buxton, and at Macclesfield from 1805 to his 

 death. He collected fossils in the neighbourhood and wrote various 

 papers on them. His best-known work is "Petrificata Derbiensia" 

 <1809). Many of the specimens figured in this book were handed by 

 his widow to James Sowerby, who refigured them in his "Mineral 

 Concbology," and thus they came with the Sowerby Collection to the 

 British Museum. It is not known where the other originals of 

 " Petrificata Derbiensia " now are ; but in 1833 some were in the small 

 but good collection of Martin's coadjutor, White Watson, F.L.S., of 

 Bakewell (see Mag. Nat. Hist, vi., p. 130). The Department possesses 

 & representation of the " Strata in Beverley Liberty, Yorkshire," inlaid in 

 local rocks, " By W. Watson." 



Martin (W. J.) 



Presented the type-specimen of Lepidotus fittoni from the Wealden of 

 Sussex, 1846. 



Martinetti (A.) 



Collected Pliocene Mollusca from Monte Mario, Home, purchased 1894. 



Masing (KABL) 



Presented tooth of Elasmotlierium from Russia, 1893. 



Mathieu (M.) 



Collected Miocene shells and corals from Touraine, purchased 1847. 



Matthew (G. F.) 



Presented Eocystis primxvus from Lower Cambrian, New Brunswick, 

 1900. 



Maunsell (Fen. Archdeacon) 



Presented a skeleton of the Irish Deer, 1843. 



Maw (GEORGE) 



Presented a skull of Loxomma allmanni from the Coal Measures of 

 Coalbrookdale, 1884, and some Silurian Brachiopoda, 1885. 



Mawson (JOSEPH) 



While occupied with the construction of railways in Bahia, Brazil, Mr. 

 Mawson has made a valuable collection of Cretaceous Reptilia, Pisces, and 

 Mollusca from that region. It has been presented by him to the Museum 

 in several small instalments from 1881 onwards, and comprises the 

 type-specimens of Lepidotus mawsoni, Megalurm mawsoni, and Acrodus 

 nitidus, besides the first evidence of Pterosauria from Brazil, described 

 by Dr. A. S. Woodward (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1898-1902). There 

 are also remains of Pleistocene Mastod<m and Megatherium in the 

 collection. 



