A Bronze Arrowhead with Engraved Mark From Gezer in the British Museum Collection

1980 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jonathan N. Tubb
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Museum Collection

Tinguaites from EIfdalen and Ruphachthal: Basalts from Madagascar and the Soudan

1901 ◽  
Vol 13 (59) ◽  
pp. 86-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Museum Collection

In connection with the investigation of ægirine-anorthoclase rocks from Abyssinia, belonging to the grorudite-tingusite series, an examination was made of specimens of the so-called green phonolite from Elfdalen, which in the British Museum collection accompanied the more ordinary brown and red porphyry from that locality. In the descriptions of the well-known porphyry quarries of Elfdalen, mention is made of this green variety as occurring only in boulders. Törnebohm was the first to record the occurrence of these rocks in situ, and to describe their characters, They were found in the form of dykes in the neighbourhood of Heden, near Särna, Dalarne, Sweden, and were interesting as containing cancrinite in clear, well-defined porphyritic crystals as undoubtedly a primary constituent.

II.—The Kells Crosier

Archaeologia ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 59-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máire Mac Dermott
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
First Record ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Royal Irish Academy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of

In the year 1850, Cardinal Wiseman writing to Dr. Russell of Maynooth mentions an ancient crosier which had come into his possession. This is the first record of the shrine known variously as the Kells crosier or the crosier of Cúduilig and Maelfinnén, which now forms one of the most beautiful and most treasured exhibits in the British Museum collection of Irish Early Christian antiquities. In his letter the cardinal describes how he had acquired this ‘most valuable relic’ at the auction of the belongings of a solicitor in London, the crosier evidently having been left in the chambers by a previous occupant, and asks for help in deciphering the inscription. Nothing whatever is known of the earlier history of the crosier or of when it was removed from Ireland. At the request of Dr. Russell, Petrie exhibited the crosier at a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy on 14th February 1851, and read a paper on it. The shrine was at the time deposited on loan in the Academy museum. The next step in the modern history of the Kells crosier was its acquisition by the British Museum in 1859.

VI.—Note on Ephippioceras clitellarium, J. de C. Sowerby, sp., and E. costatum, A. H. Foord

1900 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 560-561
Author(s):  
G. C. Crick
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Acute Angle ◽  
The Body ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Body Chamber ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
A New Species

The name Nautilus clitellarius was given by J. de C. Sowerby to a Nautiloid from the Coal-measures, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, and the description was accompanied by three figures, each representing a different specimen. In 1884 the species was included by Professor Hyatt in his new genus Ephippioceras. In 1891 Dr. A. H. Foord found a new species, Ephippioceras costatum, which was said to be “distinguished from E. clitellarium (to which it is, however, very closely related) by the character of the septa and by the surface ornaments. The septa in E. costatum do not form such an acute lobe upon the periphery as do those of E. clitellarium, and they are also a little wider apart in the former species than they are in the latter. Moreover, E. costatum is provided with prominent transverse costæ, which are strongest upon the sides of the shell where they swell out into heavy folds. These costæ are directed obliquely backwards, and cross the septa at an acute angle, passing across the periphery and forming a shallow sinus in the middle. None of the specimens in the British Museum have the test preserved, so that the ribbing has only been observed upon casts. The costæ are equally well developed upon the body-chamber and upon the septate part of the shell in the adult, but they were either very feeble or altogether absent in the young.” A re-examination of the specimens in the Museum collection shows that the separation of the two forms is quite justifiable.

scholarly journals On Didymodon, a New Genus of Minute Artiodactyle Mammalia, from the Eocene of Vaucluse

The Geologist ◽  
1863 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Charles Carter Blake
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
Inner Aspect ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Range Of Variation

Since the original foundation of the genus Dichobune by Cuvier, and the critical observations made thereon by Owen, the national collection has continued to receive new accessions, indicating the existence of a certain range of variation in the molars of that genus.The specimen (No. 30673) in the British Museum collection, is figured in Plate II., by Mr. Mackie. It consists of the three molars of the right side of a species of small quadruped closely resembling Dichobune. The length of the fractured ramus containing these teeth, of which the inner aspect is exposed to the observer, measures 27mm.; its greatest vertical depth between the penultimate and last molar being 11mm.The last molar (m 3) measures 7mm. in length, and 4 in breadth. Its form is quadricuspid; the two outward cusps being least eroded; from the ectoposterior cusp is developed a slight basal talon, extending towards the entoposterior cusp, which is the smallest of the four, pyramidal, and acuminate; the entoanterior cusp is larger, and is tipped with a small exposed ring of enamel; the ectoanterior cusp is much worn; there is no trace of the distinct hinder lobe of Xiphodon, which lobe in the Dichobune (sp. ?) from Hordwell, marked 29714 in the British Museum, exhibits a well-marked bicuspid division, having the effect of rendering the ultimate molar in that specimen virtually hexacuspid, to a greater extent than in the Dichobune ovina.

On the African Species of Phyllotreta (Col., Halticinae)

1941 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
African Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Wide Range

The genus Phyllotreta has a world-wide range, and contains many serious pests of cultivated crops. Of the 28 described species from Africa, there are few records at present as to their food-plants. The species with yellow longitudinal bands are all very closely related to European species, and could easily be confused with them, but none in the British Museum collection agrees with described European species. G. Grandi has recorded the European species P. memorum, L., from S.W. Africa, and I think it is possible that this is a misidentification. It is almost certain that all the African species will prove to be serious pests.

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