318 Geology. 



Rhadinichthys planti, and four fragments of Platysomidaj described by 

 Dr. Traquair, was purchased from him by the British Museum in 1892. 

 All the specimens bear a printed locality-label. 



Pohlig (HANS) 



Among other important researches, Prof. Pohlig, of Bonn, has collected 

 mammalian remains from the Lower Pliocene of Maragha, Persia, and 

 from the caverns of Sicily. The former collection was noticed by him in 

 the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1886), and part of it 

 was purchased by the British Museum through the dealer, K. Damon in 

 1888. The second collection comprised pigmy elephants, of which some 

 typical remains were purchased by the Museum through Dr. F. Krantz 

 in 1897. 



Pomel (AUGUSTS) [1821-1898] 



A native of Auvergne, Pomel while yet a boy was drawn by 

 A. Bravard (<?.v.) to the study of the Tertiary rocks of central France 

 and their fossils, especially the mammals. He contrived opportunity to 

 continue his scientific work while undergoing his seven years of enforced 

 military service, and the French Geological Society and Academy of 

 Sciences published valuable communications from Sergeant Pomel. 

 Deprived at last of the hospitality of the barracks, he resumed work with 

 Bravard in the deposits of Perrier, Debruge, and Ct^uron, and made notes 

 for a proposed illustrated catalogue. In 1851, Pomel was sent to the 

 Great Exhibition in London, and used the opportunity for study at the 

 British Museum, where the services he was able to render were so much 

 appreciated that, it is said, he was offered a post. He sold his collection 

 of fossil vertebrates to the Trustees but declined the appointment, 

 preferring to live in his own country. He had not reckoned on the coup 

 d'etat of December. While extricating vertebrate bones at St. Gerand- 

 le-Puy, he was pursued by gendarmes for a too zealous republican. 

 Bravard was transported to Cayenne, but Pomel hid until his sentence 

 was commuted to banishment to Algeria. Here he at once produced his. 

 "Catalogue Methodique et Descriptif des Vertebres Fossiles decouverts 

 dans le Bassin de la Loire " (1853), in which many of the British Museum 

 specimens are mentioned, and then quitted the study of his Auvergne 

 fossils for ever. But he could not give up his science; his energy 

 remained, and he became eventually Director of the Geological Survey of 

 Algeria. 



Ponsort (Baron) 



Collected fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Mont Aime, Marne, 

 purchased 1851. 



Porter (JAMES) 



Presented remains of Aepyornis from Madagascar, 1882. 



Post (G. E.) 



Presented Pliocene Mollusca from Latakia, Syria, 1885, 1886. 



Postans (T.) 



Presented fossil Mollusca from Cutch, 1843. 



Potter (GEOKGE) 



Presented Invertebrata from English Chalk, 1899. 



