334 Geology. 



Vicary (WILLIAM) 



Presented a slab of Devonian Crinoidal limestone from Newtou 

 Bushell, 1881 ; Greensand fossils from Blackdown, 1884. 



Vine (GEORGE ROBERT) [ -1893] 



Vine, of Sheffield, contributed Reports on Fossil Polyzoa to the British 

 Association (1880-84 and 1890-92), and several papers on the same 

 subject to the Geological Society (Quart. Journ., 1882-90), and the 

 Yorkshire Geological Society (Proc., 1889-92). His collection of 1695 

 specimens, mounted and labelled by himself and referred to in these 

 writings, was purchased from him by the British Museum in 1893. 

 Other specimens described by Vine were acquired in the collection of 

 T. Jesson (q.v.~). 



Waehsmuth (CHARLES) [1829-1896] 



Wachsmuth collected crinoids and other fossils from the Lower 

 Carboniferous limestone near Burlington, Iowa. At the invitation of 

 Agassiz, he visited Cambridge, Mass., in 1865, and then proceeded to 

 Europe, where, after studying in various museums, he came to the British 

 Museum, to which he sold two Burlington crinoids (1866). On his 

 return to America his collection was utilised by himself and others 

 for serious study, and was eventually sold to Agassiz. Wachsmuth 

 then made a second collection, which he brought with him on his 

 second visit to Europe in 1874, and sold to the British Museum. Again 

 he settled down, this time in co-operation with Mr. Frank Springer, 

 to make perhaps the finest collection of crinoids in the world, and to 

 begin that series of remarkable papers which culminated in the " North 

 American Crinoidea Camera ta" (1897). In 1887, Mr. Springer studied 

 the fossil crinoids in the British Museum, then newly arranged according 

 to Wachsmuth and Springer's classification, and effected an exchange of 

 great benefit to the national collection. The 316 specimens of criuoids 

 and blnstoids acquired in 1874, and the 83 specimens received in 1888 

 " contain many of the finest examples in the Museum, and some which 

 are in their way unique, notably the splendid calyx of Megistocrinus 

 evansi" (Qeol. Mag., 1896, p. 190). In the first collection, the fossils 

 from the Lower Burlington limestone are provided with yellow card 

 labels ; those from the Upper Burlington limestone have red ones. 



Walcott (CHARLES DOOLITTLE) 



Presented impressions of Medusa? from Lower Cambrian, Mt. Granville, 

 New York, 1900. 



Walker (Jonx FRANCIS) 



Presented type-specimens of Brachiopoda from the Neocomian of 

 Upware, 1867-68; Brachiopoda from the Wenlock Shale, 1883; and 

 Brachiopoda from the Inferior Oolite of Dorsetshire, 1891. 



Warburton (T.) 



Presented Pleistocene non-marine Mollusca from Moorfields, 1890. 



Ward (HENRY A.) 



Made plaster cast of carapace of Glyptodon reticulatus, obtained by 

 exchange 1865 ; prepared skull of Titanotherium from the White Eiver 

 Formation of Dakota, purchased 1895. 



