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Sternberg (C. H.) 



A well-known collector of Kansas Chalk fossils, from whom were 

 purchased specimens of Platecarpus, Clidastes, Tylosaurus, and Fishes 

 in 1900. 



Stirling (EDWARD CHARLES) 



Discovered limb-bones of Genyornis newtoni from Mulligan Springs, 

 South Australia, obtained by exchange 1897. 



Stobart (W. C.) 



Presented counterpart of type-specimen of Lepidotosaurus duffi from 

 the Magnesian Limestone of Durham, 1886. 



Stock (THOMAS) 



A collector of fossils, from whom were purchased Coal-plants from the 

 Forest ot Dean (1893), and Crinoids from the Carboniferous Limestone of 

 Alveston, Bristol (1894). 



Stoddart (DAVID A.) 



Presented Mammalian remains from the Parnpa Formation of Uruguay, 

 1865. 



Stokes (CHARLES) [1783-1853] 



" A respected member of the [London] Stock Exchange, full of vast 

 research in the Natural History Sciences, and remarkable for literary 

 and antiquarian, musical and artistic knowledge," Mr. Stokes, while 

 assiduously engaged in business, devoted his means and leisure to the 

 advancement of science. " He collected rare and interesting specimens at 

 any cost," says Edward Forbes, " not for their own sakes, but to place at 

 the disposal of any competent person." Among those who acknowledged 

 such help were Murchison, J. S. Miller (Nat. Hist. Crinoidea), A. Brong- 

 niart, and James Parkinson. Trilobites and zoophytes were among his 

 favourite subjects. In the Transactions of the Geological Society (ser. 2, 

 vol. v., 1837), he published a paper on the petrifaction of wood, and another 

 on "Some species of Orthocerata" (1840). On January 15th, 1823, he 

 presented to the Museum "two specimens of Entomoiithes in Shistus 

 from France," and in 1827, several varieties of agatised wood. His 

 collection, purchased from his executors in 1854, in addition to corals and 

 other invertebrates, comprised an extensive series of Orthocerata, chiefly 

 from North America, including the type-specimens figured by himself 

 (op. cit.) and by J. J. Bigsby (1824). Many of his specimens are in the 

 Museum of the Geological Society, and others in the Museum of Practical 

 Geology, from which some foreign Jurassic Ammonites collected by him 

 were transferred in 1880. His fossil fishes, mentioned by Agassiz, came 

 to the Museum in the Enniskillen and Egerton collections. 



Straehey (Sir RICHARD) [1817- ] 



"When a captain in the Bengal Engineers in the years 1848-49, Sir 

 Kichard Straehey was employed by the Indian Government in scientific 

 researches of a miscellaneous nature in the Northern Himalayas. He 

 read before the Geological Society a paper " On the Geology of part of the 

 Himalaya Mountains and Tibet" (Quart. Journ., 1851). The Silurian, 

 Carboniferous, Triassic, and Jurassic fossils mentioned therein, were 

 developed by him, mounted on tablets, and presented to the Museum of 

 Practical Geology, where they were described by J. W. Salter and H. F. 

 Blanford in a pamphlet entitled, " Paleontology of Niti, etc. . . . reprinted 



