scholarly journals IV. On the Genus Pygocephalus (Huxley), A Primitive Schizopod Crustacean, from the Coal-Meascbes

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 400-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Text Figure ◽  
Coal Measures

Pygocephalus Cooperi was first described by Professor Huxley from the Coal-measures of Paisley in 1857 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. xiii, pp. 363–369, pi. xiii), and a second specimen by the same author in 1862 (op. cit., vol. xviii, pp. 420–422, text-figure). Some additional specimens came into my hands for exami-nation, and were communicated to the Glasgow Geological Society, in 1866 (Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. ii, pp. 234–247, pi. iii, figs. 1–3). In that paper I described a second species, which I named Pygocephalus Huxleyi (text-figure, p. 244, op. cit.). The specimens referred to above were obtained from the Coal-measures of Paisley, from Kilmaurs, and from near ilanchester. Since then the late Mr. Henry Johnson, F.G.S., formerly of Dudley, obtainedmany examples of Pi/gocephalus from the Clay-ironstone nodules of Coal-measure age at Coseley, near Dudley, now in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History Branch), Cromwell Itond, S.VV. These specimens are preserved in great perfection, and I had fully intended to figure them some years ago, but the pressure of other work caused them to be set aside for a time. Last year I received an example of Pygocephalm from Mr. Walter Baldwin, P.G.S., obtained from the Clay-ironstone of the Middle Coal-measures at Sparth. Rochdale (for description see Fig. 1, p. 405). I have also received through Mr. H. A. Allen, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey Museum, Jermyn Street, by the kindness of their owner, Mr. Herbert Hughes, Assoc. E.S.M., F.G.S., of Horseley House, Volverhampton Street, Dudley, four most interesting specimens of Pygocepkalus collected by him, two of which prove to be females, a point of extreme interest not heretofore observed.

On the Type-locality of Carbonicola subconstricta (J. Sowerby)

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
R. V. Melville
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Original Label ◽  
Coal Measures

During a recent examination of some Coal Measure non-marine lamellibranchs in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), my attention was drawn to a specimen from the Sowerby Collection labelled “Unio subconstrictus J. Sow., Coal Measures, Derbyshire”. On the back of the specimen were the remains of an original label, partly defaced, which some previous worker had endeavoured to read, for the words “Chapel … Sheffiel[d]” had been neatly copied on to another label affixed to the specimen.

I.—Some Coal-Measure Crustaceans with Modern Representatives

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 385-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Geological Magazine

Among the numerous fossils obtained by Dr. L. Moysey from the clay-ironstone nodules of the Coal-measures near Ilkesťon, Derbyshire, is one referred to by its discoverer as “a shrimp-like animal,” in a recent note published by him in the Geological Magazine for May last. Dr. Moysey was so fortunate as to secure several well-preserved examples of this very interesting Schizopod Crustacean from a disused brickfield on the Shipley Hall Estate, owned by E. M. Mundy, Esq. These he most liberally placed in my hands to examine and describe. Dr. Moysey also commended me to the Rev. C. Hinscliff, M.A., of Craig Royston, Bickley, Kent, who had in his possession another specimen of this crustacean obtained from the same locality. Mr. Hinscliff not only sent me his fossil to study, but generously presented it to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History Branch), Cromwell Road, where it will be preserved and exhibited

I.—Notes on the Palæontology of Western Australia

1890 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey

A Part of the fossils described in the accompanying paper were presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the late Mr. Edward T. Hardman, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.I, in December, 1886; having been collected by him during his exploration of the Kimberley District of Western Australia, in 1883. Some additional specimens, forming a part of this collection, have been obligingly forwarded to me by Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland; having been found, since Mr. Hardman's death, in the Survey Office, Dublin.

IV.—Note on a Tooth of Ctenodus tuberculatus in the British Museum. By the Editor

1869 ◽  
Vol 6 (61) ◽  
pp. 317-317
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Coal Measures

Having had our attention directed by Mr. Barkas's paper to the specimens of this genus in the National Collection, and compared Mr. Barkas's figures with Mr. T. Atthey's description of Ctenodus tuberculatus [see “Annals and Magazine of Natural History” (4th series), Feb. 1868 (p. 83)]; Mr. W. Davies having also kindly pointed out to us a small but very perfect palatal tooth (see Plate IX. Fig. 3), probably from the Coal-measures of Carluke (from the collection of the late Mr. Alexander Bryson of Edinburgh), closely agreeing with Mr. Atthey's description in all its characters; we have thought it well deserving of a place in our Plate.

scholarly journals I.—On some New Zealand Graptolites

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethel M. R. Shakespear
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Mining Engineer

The New Zealand graptolites which are dealt with in this paper were collected by Mr. E. Douglas Isaacson, mining engineer, New Zealand, for the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington. Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., very kindly gave me the opportunity of examining this interesting collection, which was sent to me in the Autumn of 1907. Shortly after its receipt Dr. Woodward forwarded me a copy of the New Zealand Geological Survey publication entitled “The Geology of the Parapara Subdivision, Karamea, Nelson,” by James Mackintosh Bell, Director, 1907, which contains brief descriptions and figures of graptolites collected from the same locality as that from which Mr. Isaacson collected his specimens. Since, however, the records of graptolites from New Zealand are very limited in number, and since Mr. Isaacson's collection contains a greater variety of forms than that of any previous observer, it seems advisable to publish the identifications that I have found it possible to make from an examination of his collection.

scholarly journals Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, 1870-1934

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-352
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time

Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, the son of William Henry Kitchin, was born at Whitehaven on December 13, 1870. He was educated at St. Bees School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he spent four years (1890-1894), the last year being devoted entirely to the study of Geology and Palaeontology. Soon after leaving Cambridge he proceeded to the University of Munich, where he commenced research in palaeontology under the direction of Zittel, and graduated Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1897. In after years Kitchin valued equally the broad outlook which he gained in Cambridge and the more specialized training which he received in Munich. After working for a short time unofficially in the British Museum (Natural History) he was appointed Assistant Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey in 1898, and in 1905 he succeeded the late E. T. Newton as Palaeontologist—a post previously held by Edward Forbes, T. H. Huxley, J. W. Salter, and R. Etheridge.

scholarly journals V.—Some Recent Work Among the Upper Carboniferous Rocks of North Staffordshire, and its bearing on concealed coalfields

1899 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 505-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walcot Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
The South ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Upper Carboniferous ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Near Future

There is every reason to believe that in the near future the supplies of coal lying beneath the Red Rocks of the Midland counties will have to be relied upon to meet the increasing demand. Workable seams of coal have been met with at reasonable depths beneath the Red Rocks surrounding the South Staffordshire Coalfield, but there remain large areas lying between the known coalfields of Shropshire, North Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, which have not at present been explored. Within this region, as shown on the published maps of the Geological Survey, there are considerable areas of so-called Permian rocks, which recent investigations have proved to be conformable to the Upper Coal-measures and to contain a Coal-measure flora. Thus Mr. T. C. Cantrill has shown that in the Forest of Wyre the so-called Permian rocks contain thin coal-seams and bands of Spirorbis limestone.

The Mayo Belwa meteorite: a new enstatite achondrite fall

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (320) ◽  
pp. 487-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Graham ◽  
A. J. Easton ◽  
R. Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Rich Phase

SummaryMayo Belwa, a highly shocked enstatite achondrite, fell during the evening of 3 August 1974 in the Adamawa District, NE. Nigeria (8° 58' N., 12° 05' E.). The stone weighed 4·85 kg and was deposited in the Geological Survey of Nigeria and loaned for study to the British Museum (Natural History). It is composed principally of enstatite (0·02 FeO%), with some olivine (Fo100), diopside, feldspar (An9 Ab88 Or3), and minor Fe-Ni metal and the sulphides oldhamite, daubréelite, ferroan alabandine, and troilite. The kamacite contains between 0·15% and 1·2% Si and the troilite contains 1·1% Ti. The meteorite possesses vuggy cavities, which contain fluor-amphibole needles projecting from their walls, suggesting the presence at some time of a volatile-rich phase. The titanium-rich troilite, the nearly ironfree enstatite and the Mg/Si ratio are typical of the E-achondrites.

III.—Note on the Discovery of a very fine Example of Pleurotoma prisca, Solander, sp. (1766), at Barton, Hants

1901 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 409-411
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
History Museum

In one of his recent visits to the Natural History Museum, Major C. E. Beadnell kindly showed me a fine example of the well-known shell Pleurotoma prisca, which had been obtained some years ago by his son, Mr. Hugh J. L. Beadnell, F.G.S. (now of the Geological Survey of Egypt), when collecting specimens from the Barton Clay (Middle Eocene) in the historical cliffs at Barton, Hampshire, whence, prior to 1766, Gustavus Brander, F.R.S., made his famous collection, some of the specimens of which are still preserved in the British Museum (Natural History).

scholarly journals Robert Kidston (1852–1924): biography of a Scottish palaeobotanist

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Thomson ◽  
Ian P. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Plant Taxonomy ◽  
British Geological Survey ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction

SynopsisThis brief biography summarizes the life of Scots-born Robert Kidston (1852–1924), who was arguably the best and most influential palaeobotanist of his day. In over 180 scientific papers he laid the foundations for a modern understanding of the taxonomy and palaeobiology of Devonian and Carboniferous plants. His expertise was critical to the research and curation of the Geological Survey and British Museum (Natural History) and excavations of Glasgow's Fossil Grove introduced the great Carboniferous forests into the public imagination. Despite their age, his meticulously documented collections of slides (deposited in the Botany collection University of Glasgow) and hand specimens and notebooks (deposited in the collections of the British Geological Survey, Nottingham) provide a wealth of important scientific data with modern applications in plant taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoclimatic reconstruction.

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