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Saxby (STEPHEN M.) 



W. H. Fitton says that " Mr. Saxby, of Mountfield near Bonchurch 

 (Isle of Wight) . . ., a zealous and judicious collector," lent him various 

 specimens (Quart. Journ. GeoL Soc., iii. Proc. p. 326*). One of these 

 formed the type of Nautilus saxbii, Morris, 1848. A series of fossil 

 Mollusca from the Isle of Wisht was purchased of Saxby in 1865, and 

 included that type-specimen (47,019). Further references to his collec- 

 tions from the neighbourhood of B >nchurch are made by Mantell (" GeoL 

 Isle of Wight," 1854), who gives his address as Bellevue House, Ventnor. 



Schomburgk (Sir ROBERT HERMANN) [1804-1865] 



In 1830 Schomburgk went to the West Indies and spent ten years in 

 important geographical researches. In 1841 he was a member of the 

 Boundary Commission for British Guiana. During these expeditions he 

 collected many Tertiary fossils, which he presented to the Museum in 

 1852. Other specimens collected by him were received from the Museum 

 of Practical Geology in 1880. 



Scott (ROBERT HENRY) 



Presented Tertiary leaves collected by Edward Whymper in Green- 

 land, 1869. 



Scott (WILLIAM BERRYMAN) 



Arranged purchase of Mammalian remains from the White Eiver 

 Formation, Dakota, 1896. 



Seeley (HARRY GOVIER) 



With the aid of a Government Grant, Prof. Seeley visited Cape Colony 

 in 1889 to collect fossil Eeptilia from the Karoo Formation. He obtained 

 numerous important specimens, including skeletons of Pariasaurus 

 baini, P. bombidens, Cynognathus crateronotus, and remains of other 

 genera and species, described by himself (Phil. Trans., Quart. Journ. 

 GeoL Soc., and Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.). These fossils were received 

 as a donation through the Council of the Eoyal Society at various dates 

 from 1892 onwards. 



Sharp (SAMUEL) [1814-1882] 



While a boy at Stamford, Lincolnshire, Sharp studied the Oolitic rocks 

 around his house with Prof. J. Morris and other geologists, and made a 

 large and valuable collection of fossils. In 1857 he moved to Dallington 

 Hall, near Northampton, where he continued to collect from the Jurassic 

 rocks, availing himself of the numerous excavations then being carried on 

 for raising the iron ore of the Northampton Sand. The general results of 

 his observations were published by the Geological Society of London 

 (Quart. Journ., xxvi. p. 354, 1870 ; and xxix. p. 225, 1873). 

 Sharp's collection was also utilised by J. Morris in his " Catalogue 

 of British Fossils," and in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., ix., Proo. p. 317. 

 Sharp placed many of his geological specimens in the Northampton 

 Museum, of which he was a founder ; but a selection of over 1500 of the 

 better specimens, especially those illustrating the papers just mentioned, 

 was purchased for the British Museum in 1876. The specimens, which 

 are carefully labelled in a bold upright hand, comprise invertebrates of all 

 clasess, from the Oolitic and Liassic series of Northamptonshire, Lincoln- 

 shire, and Kutland, reptiles from the same rocks, and mammnls from the 

 Forest-bed and Drift of the eastern counties. The figured and described 

 specimens include an incrusted Chara (Geol. Mag., 1868), the types of 



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