420 Minerals. 



Cotter (Miss G. E.). 



Presented, in 1876, a remarkable specimen of quartz (" cotterite ") 

 discovered by her in Rock Forest, County Cork. 



Courten, otherwise Charleton, or Charlton (WILLIAM). 



[1642-1702] 



William Courten came of a family which, especially during the life- 

 time of his grandfather, Sir William Courten, occupied a pre-eminent 

 position amongst the great mercantile traders of the day, but which about 

 the date of his birth met with misfortune, mainly owing to political disturb- 

 ances. William Courten himself seems to have had little or no disposition 

 for mercantile affairs. To avoid the turmoil caused by the litigation for 

 and against the family estates, he retired to Montpelier, and, dropping his 

 own name, assumed that of Charleton (or Charlton). Here he devoted 

 himself to the enrichment of his museum, which, on his return to England 

 after fourteen years' absence, he arranged in ten rooms in the Middle 

 Temple. At his death his large collections passed to Sir Hans Sloane 

 (q.v.), his residuary legatee. 



Cowper (SYDNEY). 



Presented, in 1886, a large slab of golden-yellow cat's-eye (quartz), 

 and another of blue, ashes tiform crocidolite, from the Asbestos Mountains, 

 South Africa. 



Cracherode (Rev. CLAYTON MOEDAUNT). [1730-1799] 



Trustee of the British Museum [1784-1799]. 



A member of an ancient family, long resident in Essex, Cracherode 

 passed most of his life in London. Although he took orders in the 

 English Church, and held for a time the curacy of Binsey, near Oxford, 

 he neither sought nor obtained further preferment, but devoted all his 

 leisure to amassing a fine collection of books, prints, coins, medals, 

 gems, minerals and shells, all of which came to the Museum by bequest 

 in 1799. Many of the mineral specimens were choice examples, and 

 their cost to the collector had been considerable. A detailed manuscript 

 catalogue of the collection is preserved in the Department. Special 

 mention may be made of : polished slabs of labradorite and lapis lazuli ; 

 crystallised specimens of blende, tetrahedrite, argentite, pyrargyrite and 

 heulandite. 



Cunningham (J. F.). 



Presented, in 1899, one of the Zomba meteoric stones. 

 Gust (L.). 



Presented, in 1894, 36 specimens, mostly English, from the mineral 

 collection made by his mother, Lady Gust. 



Dana (EDWARD SALISBURY). [1849- ] 



Professor of physics and curator of mineralogy at Yale University. 



Presented, in 1878, specimens of the newly-discovered minerals 

 eosphorite, triploidite, dickinsonite and lithiophilite from Branchville, 

 Connecticut. 



Davies (THOMAS). [1837-1892] 



Assistant in the Mineral Department of the British Museum [1862- 

 1892]. 



Presented, in 1874, about 50 specimens of basaltic rocks from Fifeshire 

 and Skye ; and many other specimens in subsequent years. 



