I.—Discovery of the Remains of a Fossil Crab (Decapoda-Brachyura) in the Coal-Measures of the Environs of Mons, Belgium

1878 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 433-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
Small Crustacean ◽  
Coal Measures

M. A. Preudhomme de Borre, the Conservator of the, Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels, having received, some time since, from M. Persenaire, the impression and counterpart of the abdomen of a small Crustacean discovered in the Coal-shales at the ‘Belle-et-Bonne’ Colliery, near Mons, he submitted it to the inspection of the Entomological Society of Brussels at their Monthly Meeting on 5th June, 1875.

scholarly journals Life in two countries but one home land – Béla Lipthay (1892-1974) the entomologist

2014 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
András Bozsik
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Life Time ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
World War ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
Agricultural Entomology ◽  
Home Village

Béla Lipthay lepidopterologist, entomologist, museologist, agriculturist, hussar lieutenant, life-saving Roman Catholic, descendant of the historical family Lipthay de Kisfalud et Lubelle did a long way from his home village Lovrin to Szécsény, the one-time land of his ancestors. His life coincided with the disintegration of the historical Hungary, and the most serious trials of the Hungarian society, culture and spirit. These changes affected him as a member of Hungarian aristocracy many times and in fact wanted to destroy him. The fortune of the ancestors have been swept away by the storms of the wars and confiscated but the human strength of character, the consciousness, the talent, the diligence, the sanctuary of faith have remained. All these made him possible to survive, to do his everyday hard creative work, which gained him affection and respect of the people living around him. Lipthay Béla was mainly lepidopterist and dealt with the the species of Hungary. Place of his collection was first his native country, the Banat, and the area of the Southern Carpatian Montain, and after 1944 Nógrád county (Szécsény, Balassagyarmat, Nógrádszakál, Ipolytarnóc, Rimóc, Ludányhalászi etc.). The collected species belonged to Macrolepidoptera but he dealt also with the moths. During his life time he prepared a collection of 60000 individuals and maintained them until his passing away. Great part of this collection can be found at the zoological cabinet of Natural History Museum in Budapest. He discovered many species new for the Hungarian fauna such as e.g. Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829), and described a new species (Chamaesphecia sevenari Lipthay, 1961) which later proved to be a synonym of Chamaesphecia nigrifrons (Le Cerf, 1911). He knew well the most famous collectors and specialists of the age. After the first World War he worked together with Frigyes König, László Diószeghy, Jenő Teleki, Norman D. Riley (leading entomologist of the British Museum at London, secretary of the Royal Entomological Society), Brisbane C. S. Warren ( member of the Royal Entomological Society), Lionel W. Rothschild (the most important private collector) and many excellent lepidopterists. After the second World War he was well known and respected by the Hungarian entomologists and lepidopterists: he was a friend of Lajos Kovács, the distinguished lepidopterist and Zoltán Kaszab, the eminent entomologist. He had a good relationship with such renowned Hungarian zoologists and entomologists like Gyula Éhik, László Gozmány, László Issekutz, László Bezsilla and László Móczár. He colleted also Hymenoptera, Diptera and capricorn beetles to be found in Hungarian and foreign collections Natural History Museum, (London), a Szekler National Museum (Marosvásárhely). He dealt with agricultural entomology because he was an experienced agriculturist as far as he had the opportunity to do that. He painted wonderful agricultural entomology posters and organized expositions e.g. on the pests of industrial crops and hunting at Balassagyarmat and Salgótarján.

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

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.

The natural history of Kaolinite

1911 ◽  
Vol 16 (73) ◽  
pp. 63-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis H. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coal Measures

In the south-west coal-field of east Glamorganshire—especially in the Lower Coal Measures–Mr. A. Tait, of Caerphilly, observed last year a white, soft, and pulverulent substance, saponaceous to the touch. A specimen sent to me, examined first and identified by Mr. T. Crook, was found to consist of a congeries of well-defined crystals of kaolinite. The crystals are chiefly basal flakes, hexagonal in outline, and 0.02 to 0.037 mm. in length. Most of them show elongation in one direction, and unequal extension of the thin lamellae composing them.

scholarly journals V.—Further Notes nn the Arthropoda of the British Coal-Measures

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 539-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
The Third ◽  
South West ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Working Out ◽  
A New Species

For some years past a Committee of Littleborough and Rochdale geologists, consisting of Messrs. W. H. Sutcliffe, Walter Baldwin, W. A. Parker, S. S. Platt, and others, have devoted themselves to the task of working out the beds of shale containing clay-ironstone nodules, a portion of the Middle Coal-measures at Sparth Bottoms, half a mile south-west of Rochdale Town Hall, in beds estimated to occur 135 feet above the Royley Mine Coal-seam.In the clay-ironstone nodules occur well-preserved ferns, Calamites, Sigillariœ, shells of Carbonicola acuta and other Coal-measure lamellibranchs, whilst the number of Arthropoda obtained is probably unsurpassed in any locality of this formation.The first Arthropod obtained from Sparth Bottoms was noticed by Mr. Walter Baldwin, F.G.S., under the name of Prestwichia, rotundata, Prestw., sp. (Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii, part 6, 1901, pp. 149–155, with a plate); the second in 1903, by the same geologist, who identified it as Bellinurus bellulus, König (op. cit., vol. xxviii, part 8, pp. 198–202). The third and most important discovery was made by Mr. W. A. Parker, F.G.S., namely, a new species of fossil Scorpion, which was described and figured in 1904 by Messrs. Baldwin & Sutcliffe under the name of Eoscorpius Sparthensis (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lx, p. 396, fig. 2). These geologists have continued their researches, of which a brief account was given by me at the York Meeting of the British Association (1906). Many subsequent finds have been most obligingly confided to me by these gentlemen, and through the kindness of Mr. W. H. Sutcliffe the specimens figured have since been presented to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History), the only condition imposed being that they should be described.

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.

Philip Brookes Mason (1842–1903): surgeon, general practitioner and naturalist

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Francis
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Private Collections

Philip Brookes Mason (1842–1903) of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was a medical doctor, a keen naturalist and collector. He first devoted himself to the study of botany, later Lepidoptera, then conchology and finally Coleoptera. His private collections, however, were of a wider nature accumulated both from his own gatherings and from purchases. He was an important figure in the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archaeological Society and in national societies including the Entomological Society of London and the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He campaigned for a museum in Burton-on-Trent and his medical and altruistic achievements are also noteworthy. The current whereabouts of his collections are given in an appendix.

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