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Stellaster sharpi and Astropecten cotteswoldix var stamfordensis, and 

 another A. cotteswoldias, all figured by T. Wright (Palseontogr. Soc.), also 

 the type of Penxus sharpi, H. Woodward {Rep, Brit. Assoc. for 1868) 

 from the Lower Lias, Northampton. The rest of the Sharp collection 

 was acquired by the Mason College, Birmingham, and is now in the 

 museum of the University : in addition to Jurassic fossils, it contains an 

 excellent stratigraphical series, from the Cambrian to Recent. 



Sharpe (DANIEL) 



Presented Pleistocene Mammalian remains from Erith and Grays, 

 1850. 



Shelburne (Earl of) 



Presented remains of Mastodon americanus and a molar ef Mastodon 

 Jiumboldti, 1767. 



Sherborn (CHARLES DAVIES) 



Collected London Clay Foraminifera, purchased 1886 ; English Chalk 

 fossils, presented 1899. 



Shockley (W. H.) 



Presented Upper Carboniferous Invertebrata from Shansi, China, 1898. 



Shrubsole (GEORGE WILLIAM) [1827-1893] 



Resident in Chester from 1853 until his death, Shrubsole was a 

 geologist and archaeologist with many interests, but made a special study 

 of the Palaeozoic Polyzoa, and collected an important series of these 

 fossils, notably from the Bala and Carboniferous Limestones of North 

 Wales, the Wenlock Limestone of Dudley, and Magnesian Limestone of 

 Northumberland. He published several papers on the subject (Quart. 

 Journ. Oeol. Soc. 1879-1882), and his collection was presented to the 

 British Museum by his son, Mr. George Shrubsole, in 1896. Many 

 Ordovician fossils from the Glyn Ceiriog district were presented by him 

 to the museum of the Chester Society of Natural Science, of which he 

 was a founder. 



Shrubsole (WILLIAM HOBBS) 



Resided for many years at Sheerness and collected fossils from the 

 London Clay of Sheppey. Discovered skull of Argillornis longipennis, 

 purchased 1880; skull of Chelone gigas, purchased 1880; Diatoms, 

 presented 1881 ; and Prophaethon shrubsolei, purchased 1898. 



Sikora (F.) [ -1902] 



Mr. Sikora was a skilled collector and obtained many important 

 bones of extinct Lemuroids and other vertebrates from the caverns of 

 Madagascar. Some of these were purchased from him in 1900 by the 

 British Museum, others by the Vienna Museum. The former have been 

 and are being described by Dr. Forsyth Major, the latter by Dr. Lorenz 



Simmons (JEREMIAH) 



An expert collector of Chalk fossils, from whom many specimens were 

 purchased. He prepared the unique group of Oreaster lulbiferus, pur- 

 chased 1873. 



Simonson (A.) 



Mr. Simonson collected remains of Treinataspis, Auchenaspis, and 

 other Ostracoderms, in_the Upper Silurian of Oesel, an island in the Baltic. 



