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was presented to the Torquay Museum. Most of Pengelly's Devonian 

 fossils were purchased by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts for the Oxford 

 Museum. From what remained of his collection at his death, a first 

 selection comprising Pleistocene Mammalia from the Happaway Cave, 

 various Devonian, Carboniferous, and Greensand fossils, was presented to 

 the British Museum by Mrs. Pengelly in 1896 ; while a second selection 

 was presented to the Museum of Practical Geology. 



Pentland (JOSEPH BARCLAY) [1797-1873] 



Pentland studied in Paris under Cuvier, and became interested in 

 fossil Vertebrata. He collected a fine series of Upper Pliocene mammalian 

 remains from the Val d' Arno, Italy, and presented it to the Museum 

 in 1853. Hippopotamus pentlandi was named after him. 



Penton (R. H.) 



Presented dentition of MyUolatis pentoni from Eocene near Cairo, 

 1893. 



Pepper (Miss) 



Presented Mammalian remains from Perim Island, 1841. 

 Perceval (SPENCER GEORGE) 



Presented Mammalian remains from Pen Park Cave, Westbury-on- 

 Trym, 1884; pieces of Rhajtic Bone-bed from Aust, 1889; and Inverte- 

 brata from the Lower Lias of Somersetshire, 1896. Arranged the 

 purchase of the Westmoreland Collection of Eed Chalk fossils, 1900. 



Petzholdt (ALEXANDER) 



Presented Calamites from the Coal Measures of Saxony, 1859. 



Pfeiffer (Mrs.) 



Presented Tertiary Echinoids from Java, 1855. 



Phillips (Mrs. E. LORT) 



Collected and presented fossils from Somaliland, 1896. 



Pickering (J.) 



Collected Pleistocene non-marine Mollusca from Grays and the Kennet 

 Valley, presented by the Council of the Geologists' Association, 1892. 



Piper (GEORGE HARRY) [1819-1897] 



While resident at Ledbury for nearly fifty years Piper devoted much 

 attention to the geology of the district. When the Hereford and Worcester 

 railway was constructed, he studied the Ledbury station section of the 

 Upper Silurian and Passage Beds, and made a large collection of the 

 fossils obtained. Among these were unique specimens of Cephalaspidian 

 fishes, especially Ccphalaspis murchisoni, Auchenaspis egertoni, and 

 Didymaspis grindrodi, presented by Mr. Piper to the British Museum 

 m 1887 and 1889, and described in the British Museum " Catalogue of 

 Fossil Fishes," Part II. The remainder of his collection, comprising 150 

 fish-remains and about 1650 Upper Silurian Invertebrata, was purchased 

 from his executor in 1898. 



Plant (JOHN) [1820-1894] 



Major Plant, curator of the Salford Museum, collected fish-remains 

 and other fossils from the Coal Measures of Collyhurst, Manchester. His 

 collection of about 450 specimens, including the type-specimen of 



