Minerals. 423 



Flinders (Capt. MATTHEW, R.N.). [1774-1814] 



Hydrographer and discoverer. 



Collected a series of schists, slates, limestones', etc., on the north and 

 ast coasts of Australia in 1801-1803 ; the specimens (about 50) were 

 presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in 1811. 



Port (RICHARD). [1856- ] 



Presented, in 1886, a series of polished specimens of protogine from 

 Mont Blanc. 



Geinitz (Dr. HANNS BRUNO). [1814-1900] 



Director of the Royal Mineralogical Museum at Dresden [1857-1900]. 

 Presented, in 1886, a fragment of the Nenntmannsdorf meteorite. 



Giesecke (CHARLES LEWIS). [1761-1833] 



Carl Ludwig Metzler (afterwards Giesecke) collected minerals during 

 a sis years' residence in Greenland. In 1811, the ship containing the 

 specimens collected by him was captured by a French privateer, retaken, 

 by an English frigate, and with its cargo sold by auction at Leith ; many 

 of the specimens were acquired by Thomas Allan (q.v.). In 1813, 

 Giesecke returned from Greenland with another collection, and visited 

 Allan at Edinburgh. Through the latter's instrumentality, he was 

 shortly afterwards appointed director of the Museum of the Royal Dublin 

 Society. 



Gosset (Col M.). 



See JONES (Prof. THOMAS RUPERT). 



Gravine (G.). 



Presented, in 1838, twenty-four Sicilian ambers. 



Great Britain and Ireland, Director of the Geological 

 Survey of. 



Presented, in 1903, a collection of rock-specimens from the Assynt 

 district, Sutherlandshire. 



Great Laxey Mine, Proprietors of the. 



Presented, in 1851, a very large group of crystals of galena with 

 rhombohedra of calcite and some blende, from the mine. 



Greg (ROBERT HYDE). [1795-1875] 



After the death of Thomas Allan (j.t>.), his mineral collection was 

 privately purchased in 1835 from his executors through Prof. Trail, of 

 Edinburgh, by Robert Hyde Greg, a Manchester merchant, to whose 

 residence, Norcliffe Hall, Cheshire, the collection was moved in the follow- 

 ing year, 1836. R. H. Greg, although possessed of some knowledge of 

 mineralogy, was better known a* an economist and antiquary, and f< 

 some years after it came into his possession no additions were made to 

 the collection. His son, Robert Philips [1826- ], took up the subject 

 with great vigour, and for three years, 1848-1851, spent considerable 

 sums in bringing the collection up to date by the acquisition of new 

 specimens, mostly through various dealers. R. P. Greg is well-known to 

 mineralogists as joint author with W. G. Lettsom of a " Manual of the 

 Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland," published in 1858, which 

 contains many allusions to specimens in the Allan-Greg collection. In 

 1860 the collection was purchased by the Trustees from R. H. Greg 



