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and 84 invertebrate fossils from the collection can still be identified with 

 certainty, about a dozen others being less certain; further, seveial fish- 

 remains bear the Sloane labels ; and a few Mammalian fragments are still 

 duly marked. No. 528 is noteworthy as "An Echinites from Agostino 

 Scilla's Collection " : Scilla's book was published at Naples in 1670, and a 

 Latin translation at Rome in 1724. 



Slone (Mrs. E.) 



Cheirotherian footprints from Trias of Cheshire, purchased 1848. 



Smith. (GEORGE) 



Presented Glossopteris from Natal, 1876. 



Smith (Mrs. M. H.) 



This lady, who lived at Mayo House, Tunbridge Wells, not only 

 purchased valuable specimens from qiiarrymen and collectors, but col- 

 lected herself, especially from the Chalk, and worked with the microscope 

 until prevented by blindness. She presented fossils to Mantell and the 

 Brighton Museum, and a few to the British Museum ; and her collection was 

 utilised by F. Dixon in his " Geology of Sussex." A MS. " Catalogue of 

 Fossil Organic Remains " in her cabinet, compiled and illustrated by 

 S. P. Woodward, with other drawings by W. H. Hensted, G. A. Mantell, 

 and J. Delves, is preserved in the Library of the Geological Department. 

 On Mrs. Smith's death the collection passed to her daughter, Mrs. Bishop 

 of Bramcote, near Nottingham. She also died before long, and in 1878 

 the grenter part of the collection was sold to the British Museum by the 

 second Mrs. Bishop. It consisted of 248 complete specimens and about 

 130 fragments, and included the type-specimen of DoUchosaurus longi- 

 collis, Owen, with specimens of Pterodactylus conirostris, Polyptycliodon 

 interruptus, Plesiosaums, and Chelonians, all figured by Owen in either 

 the first or second edition of Dixon's book, and in his " Keptilia of the 

 Cretaceous Formations" (Falseontogr. Soc., 1851); type-specimens of 

 Saurocephalus lanciformis, Agass., Pachyrhizodus basalis, Dixon, with a 

 specimen of Edaphodon mantelli also figured in the same work ; fine 

 specimens of Enoplocytia leachi and E. siissexensis, some figured ; 

 Greasier coronatus, Goniaster regularis, and the type of G. smithix, 

 figured by Forbes in Dixon. A cabinet of small Chalk fossils from 

 Mrs. Smith's collection was bequeathed by Mr. Bishop, who died in 1877, 

 to the then proposed Nottingham Museum, while a small collection, 

 arranged by his first wife, was retained by his widow. Mrs. Bishop, who 

 subsequently moved to Watford (Herts), presented the Museum with the 

 above-mentioned catalogue in 1892. 



Smith (P. J.) 



Palaeozoic fossils from Tasmania, purchased 1880. 

 Smith (TOULMIN) 



Smith, who lived at Highgate, devoted many years to the investiga- 

 tion of the British Cretaceous sponges, especially those known as 

 Ventriculites, on which he published papers in the Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History, in 1848. His collection, purchased from his widow 

 in 1869, included no less than 1060 specimens of such sponges, com- 

 prising those described by him. It also contained some shells from the 

 London Clay of Highgate and reptilian and fish remains from the Chalk, 

 the latter including, the jaws figured by him ( London Oeol. Journ., p. 22) 

 and subsequently referred to Pachyrhizodus gardncri. In the same 



