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A small selection of specimens was purchased from him in 1894, and 

 a Tremataspis from his collection was subsequently purchased through 

 Dr. Krantz. 



Singley (J. A.) 



Collected Tertiary and Cretaceous Mollusca from Galveston, Texas, 

 purchased 1897. 



Slatter (ANN TAYLOB) 



Miss Slatter was sister to T. J. Slatter (q.v.) of Evesham. Having 

 been attracted by numerous fossil corals scattered over the surface of a 

 ploughed field at Fairford, Gloucestershire, she not only collected these, 

 but subsequently obtained beautiful specimens from excavations made for 

 the purpose in the underlying bed, which was at the base of the Corn- 

 brash. She gave many of her specimens to Mr. Brown of Cirencester, 

 who lent them, among others, to P. Martin Duncan for description. Miss 

 Slatter's own specimens were examined, and some of them described, by 

 Mr. R. F. Tomes, notably the type of Bathycwnia slatteri (Quart. 

 Journ. Geol Soc., 1883 and 1885). In 1899 the Trustees purchased 

 from Miss Slatter 695 corals including several of the described specimens, 

 and about 100 other Oolitic Invertebrata. 



Slatter (THOMAS JAMES) [1834-1895] 



While serving as clerk and manager in various branches of the 

 Gloucestershire Bank, Slatter studied the geology of the county, and 

 made a large collection, chiefly of Jurassic fossils, which were carefully 

 labelled in his own small and neat handwriting. On his retirement, he 

 settled with his collection at Evesham. Many of the corals collected by 

 himself and his sister Anne (q.v.) were studied by R. F. Tomes. Nearly 

 5000 specimens selected from this collection were purchased by the 

 Museum from Slatter's executor in 1896. In the selection was included 

 a fine antler of reindeer from the river-gravels near Evesham. 



Slimon (ROBERT) 



Collected Upper Silurian Crustacea from Lanarkshire, purchased 1878. 



Sloane (Sir HANS) [1660-1753] 



In this place, it is only necessary to recollect the facts that among 

 Sloane's collections of natural history objects, were those he made in 

 Jamaica, 1687-88, and the valuable cabinets of William Courten acquired 

 by Sloane on the latter's death in 1702. A general account of Sloane's 

 collection as it existed at Chelsea is given in the Gentleman's Magazine, 

 1748 (pp. 301-302). The collection, as purchased by the nation in 1763 

 included many "extraneous fossils, comprehending petrified bodies, as 

 trees, or parts of them, herbaceous plants, animal substances," etc., 

 described as being a collection " the most extensive and most curious that 

 ever was seen of its kind." In " The General Contents of the British 

 Museum," Ed. i., 1761 ; ii., 1762, we find the following fossils mentioned : 

 Helmintholithi [corals], Cochlites, Ammonites, Ostracites, Anomiae 

 [ Brachiopods], Conchites, Pectimtes, Echinites, Belemnites, Asterise, 

 Trochites and Entrochi, Ichthyolithi, Zoolithi [Mammal bones], Phyto- 

 lithi. The collection was of a very miscellaneous character, and com- 

 prised common fossils not only from Britain, but also from abroad. Each 

 specimen bore a register-number, written in ink on a square ticket of 

 white paper, and was entered in a MS. Catalogue, which is preserved in 

 the Library of the Department of Geology. Two bits of petrified wood, 



