RD /i W 1 nof; o 6 Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series VOLUME 17 NUMBER 1 25 MAY 1989 IF' The Bulletin oj the British Museum ( .\atuial History), instituted in 1949, is issued in four scientific series. Botany, Entomology, Geology (incorporating Mineralogy) and Zoology, and an Historical series. The Historical Series is edited in the Museum's Library Librarian: Mr R. E. R. Banks Editor: Miss P. Gilbert Papers in the Bulletin are primarily the results of research carried out on the unique and ever-growing collections of the Museum, both by the scientific stalT and by specialists from elsewhere who make use of the Museum's resources. Many of the papers are works of reference that will remain indispensable for years to come. A volume contains about 256 pages, made up of two numbers: published Spring and Autumn. Subscriptions may be placed for one or more of the series on an Annual basis. 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MUSLUM Life of Charles duBois f . . . . l>l*J!'!'.' ! . 'jl VP/;ri Notes on the Manuscript | "a-Hi*-! Further Reading j .4.v!vW.!.9,6v. References i ti..>cf-^M^„„. . . Appendix (duBois correspondence) ; . i .1. .,. ^-^^y. i;u"-A-e,'.- Facsimile and Transcription of the "■■^■■f-npt "' . ■JUlrj, X 1 2 13 21 21 23 29 INTRODUCTION Entomology in the seventeenth century is most commonly exemplified in the modern mind by Mouffet's Theater of Insects. That work, with its wealth of superstitions and ridiculous remedies, provides a strong reinforcement of modern prejudices about the inadequacies of past scientists, yet in reality it is atypical of the entomological scene of the times when it was published. When both manuscripts and serious published works of the period are examined, what is constantly surprising is the straightforward, common- sense approach of most of the naturalists of the time: John Ray, for instance, wnMe to Hans Sloane in April 1699 (teste Lankester, 1898) The most I have done is in observing the generation and transmutations of the papilionaceous tribe, of which I have found at least 2IH1 species near my own habitation, necdum finitae, every year bringing new ones to my knowledge. Of these, as many as I could get the eggs or caterpillars of, 1 have fed and endeavoured to brmg to their changes, though I have failed in many. This hath taken me up no small time and pains. Apart from the archaic language, these sentences may well have been written by a naturalist of the late twentieth century. The notebook reproduced here belongs to the tradition of John Ray rather than Thomas Mouffet. It is the work of Charles duBois, who is now chiefly remembered as a botanist and horticulturalist. When he wrote the work, duBois was a reasonably wealthy London merchant involved in the silk trade, and he was then in his mid thirties. His social circle at the time he was writing probably already included several of the leading naturalists on the London scene, whose activities seem lo have been as much social as scientific. Why duBois wrote the notebook is not known; it may have been an attempt lo dehne what he knew of the insects as a whole or of the insect fauna local to Milcham, but there was probably also an additional element of enjoyment in drawing the figures that 2 L. JESSOP accompany the descriptions; considerable time must have been spent in their production, and they are of tine quahty. These notes may originally have been intended for publication (although there is no evidence of such an intention). If so. duBois may have deferred to Petiver and to Ray, who was in 1695 working towards his Historia Insectorum . It must be remembered that at the time the notebook was written there were no identification guides available of the sort that we have now. In the absence of books to help him. it is probable that duBois turned to other naturalists for assistance — men such as James Petiver, for instance, who contributed a specimen that is figured in the notebook, kept his own insect collecting diary and published some of his collecting records in the Monthly Miscellany and elsewhere. The present work reproduces duBois" text in facsimile and as a transcript, and transcripts are also appended of his surviving correspondence. A summary is given of what is known about Charles duBois' life and times. This summary has no pretentions to being complete: there are probably a number of further references to the man buried among the mass of letters in the Sloane MSS and in the Journal Book of the Royal Socieiv. and there may be further information to be gleaned from census and ta.\ records in the Public Record Office. A detailed account drawing on all sources was thought inappropriate to this publication, which is primarily concerned with presenting the text of the notebook. The Spelling, and Possible Pronunciation of duBois' Name: In his letters and will Charles duBois always signed his name with a lower case d and without a space between the u and B. and this usage is followed in the present publication. Other authors have given the name as Dubois or Du Bois, and their orthography is followed when the text of works is cited. A note on the verso of Add. MSS 22,851 f. 186 spells the name as Du Boys. If this was written by someone who had heard the name but not seen it written, it could be an indication of how it was pronounced. References to Entries in the Notebook Where entries in the notebook are discussed below, they are numbered according to their place in the various sections. Thus 'notes 5' is the fifth entry in the notes section. 'Papilio 9" the ninth in the genus Papilio, and 'Tunbridge Wells 4' the fourth species described from Tunbridge Wells. LIFE OF CHARLES DUBOIS The following account is broadly based on that of Foster (1924: 113-124). Unfortunately. Foster did not provide references to many of his sources of information, and his account is here taken at face value. Where additional information has been obtained in the course of the preparation of the current work or where facts quoted by Foster have been checked to their source, the source is cited. CHARLBS DUBOIS INSECT NOTES i Background Charles duBois belonged to a Huguenot family that had already been living in England for at least two generations. He was the eldest son of John (aka Jean) duBois, who described himself in his will as citizen and weaver of London (P.R.O. 1 1/378 [169 Hare]). Charles" date of birth is usually given as 1656 (Foster, 1924 claimed it was 1653): his gravestone indicates that he was 83 years old when he died, which was on the 20 or 21 October 1741), and that places his date of birth between the 22 October 1656 and the 19 October 1657. No record of baptism has been traced. The records of L'Eglise de Londres in Threadneedle Street report a marriage on the 1 1 January 1652 between Jean duBois, son of Jean, native of Canterbury and Anne Herle, daughter of Charles Herle, 'Ministre de la Parolle de Dieu", native of Winwick in the County of Lancaster. Anne Herle was probably Charles" mother, and she must have died while he was still a boy, since his father re-married in 1662. Foster (1887) in a register of London marriage licences recorded that John duBois of the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury, a widower aged 40, took out a licence on the 10 September to marry Sarah Waldo, a spinster aged 22, daughter of Anne Waldo, of All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, widow, who consented, the marriage to take place at All Hallows aforesaid, or St Faith, London (dated 10 Sept. 1662). It would appear that the marriage took place neither at All Hallows nor at St Faith, as the register of L"Eglise de Londres (Threadneedle Street) records the marriage occurring there on 27 July 1662. John duBois was still described as a native of Canterbury, and Sarah Waldo as daughter of Daniel Waldo, native of London. There are seven sons and one daughter mentioned in John duBois" will. The Waldo family had been living in England since the mid sixteenth century and contained several wealthy merchants among its members (Jones, 1863). The only Waldo listed in the 1666 hearth tax records for All Hallows Honey Lane was Edward, a mercer of the Streete Syde, who was taxed for seven hearths (P.R.O. E179 252/32). A note in the same set of records says that there was no collection in St Mary Aldermanbury because the collector was 'appointed to begin his collection on Monday the 3rd day of September, 1666 but was prevented by the fire". The duBois and Waldo families could probably be classed as fairly wealthy members of the London community. The parishes they lived in were themselves well-to-do areas of the city (St Mary Aldermanbury had been described by Stow in 1603 as follows: 'In this Alderman bury streete be diverse faire houses on both the sides, meete for marchants or men of Worship, and in the midst thereof is a fayre Conduit"), whilst the seven hearths of the Waldo household is a mark of substantial prosperity, as is the situation of their house (not in a yard or lane, but in a street) (see Power in Beier & Finlay, 1986, for a discussion of indicators of wealth in seventeenth century London). Their profession was not unusual: about 20% of the population of the city was employed in the cloth trade at that time (Beier in Beier & Finlay, 1986), about half of those listed in the All Hallows Honey Lane parish in the 1666 hearth tax return being silkmen (P.R.O. E179 252/32). Charles duBois himself later also joined the cloth trade, being bequeathed in his lather's will a share in a mercer's business and the silk trade. These businesses were also part-owned by his fathers brother, also called Charies (PRO. wills 1 1/378 [169 Hare]). Charles duBois" knowledge of the silk trade is implied in the description of the species 'notes 43", the tail of which he describes as being 'large and very hairy, blunt at the end like that of the papilio of a silk worm". Assuming that Charles duBois spent his childhood in London, among his early memories would have been the outbreak of plague in 1665, which killed almost one-fifth and incapacitated up to one-third of the population of London (see Slack in Beier & Finlay, 1986) and the great fire of 1666, which destroyed almost all of the City of 4 I . JESSOP London, including the whole of the parishes of St Mar>' Aldermanbury and All Hallows Honey Lane. Unfortunately no evidence relating to his early life has vet conic to light, the earliest record of his existence being in 16S4. when he was mentioned in his father's will, at which time he would have been about 28 years old. Presumablv he was then already occupied somehow in the cloth trade, as he was considered fitted b\ his father to take over part of the famiU business on his death. No evidence has been found of Charles duBois ha\ insi married. John duBois and Politics John duBois is known to have been involved in the political life of the City of London. In 1682 there was a political struggle between the Royal Court and the Whigs, who were determined to exclude the Duke of York from the succession. It was felt by the Court that it was important that the government of the City of London should be in svmpathetic hands. In the election of two Sheriffs. John duBois and Fhomas Papillon (who were probably old friends, both being chosen in \b>7 by the French Church in Limdon to remonstrate with the committee appointed by Cromwell to settle disputes in that bod\ ) were nominated by the Whigs in opposition to two candidates fa\oured bv the Lord Mayor (who supported the Court). The candidates were presented to the citi7cns on Midsummer Day. and as the meeting was in the favour of the Whig candidates, the Lord Mayor declared the meeting adjourned. The citizens, ignoring the order of adjournment, declared Papillon and duBois elected. This election was declared void and a fresh one ordered, which resulted in Papillon and duBois again being returned, but the Lord Mayor ignored the decision and announced that the two Court candidates had been chosen. In February l(iS4. Papillon and duBois issued writs against the Lord Ma\or lor making a false return, and on his refusing to enter an appearance, he was arrested and detained in custody for six hours. After the action had been abandoned, the Mavor retaliated by claiming £10. ()()() damages for false impnsonment. The trial took place under the notorious Chief Justice Jeffreys, who secured a verdict for the lull amount claimed. Papillon tied to Utrecht until the Revolution made it safe for him to return to London. The Lord Mayor would probably then have turned his attention to duBois. but by that lime the latter was dead: his burial is registered at the parish church of St Mary .Aldermanbury on the 30 October 1684 and his will was proved on the .^ November. John duBois was elected a Committee of the East India Company in 1681 (Committee was the title given to each of the 24 directors elected annually by the East India Compaiu to manage its affairs), possibly through the inlluence of Papillon. who was Dcputv Governor and at that time fighting the Lory section of the Companv. Papillon was replaced as Deputy Governor b\ Robert Thomson in 1682 and retired in 168.^. but John duBois remained a Committee until his death. John duBois' Son.s and the East India Company In April 1691 John duBois' son. also called John, became a Committee of the I-^ast India Company. He had married in July 1690. and the licence describes him as 'about 25", which would place his date of birth at about I66.S and thus make him the step-brother of Charles. John duBois the younger remained a member of the Court of the Company for six and a half years, and on M) September 1697 was appointed to the post of Cashier- (ieneral (usually called Treasurer) at a salary of £200 plus £100 a year gratuity. This appointment necessitated his retirement from the Court of the Company. CH \R1 1 sin IU1IS INSllMNCVnS 5 John iliiHois tlic \oungcr died in 1702. ;uul on 27 October 1702 ("luiilcs duRois \v;is appointed to the post ot C'ashiei-Cieneial. Charles diiBois ua\e seeinilv ol 14,|I00 tor the faitlilul diseliari;e of his duties. A Charles duBois was a Conmiittee Ironi April Id'-'S initil 17(W. but unless he was given permission to continue in that post at the same time as beini; Treasurer, this must have been a second person with the same name. During the tenure ol John duHois the younger, .ind ol Ch.irles duHois as Treasurer, the East India Company underwent tremendous ditticulties. The following sequence of events is taken from Hunter (UMl.S): \in^H 1-nemies of the Old I'ast India Conip.my formed an association allied lo ihe Whigs in Parliament, to break the nionopolv of trade Id'-'.i Sir Josia Child, In bribes 'on the most lavish se.ile', procured ,i tr.idmg ch.irtei liom the Crown. 1 (i''4 The I louse of Commons passed a resolution that all the subjects of England hav e a right to trade with the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament. l(i'*5 .An inquiry into briberv and corruption concerning the affair ruined several politicians. lO^^'S .-Xn .issocKition constituted bv .in .Vet of I'arli.inient. the '(ieneral Societv' (also known as the New Company), was granted exclusive trade with the Fast Indies, saving the rights o\ the C)ld Conipanv . which were due to expire in 17111 Ib^S Ihe Old Compain subscribed t.^l.s.OOO m the name of John duHois to the New Company, thus giv ing them a major uiterest in it. There followed a bitter struggle between the OUt and New Companies, both in Hngland and Indi.i. 1702 Under pressure from Crown and Parliament tlie two companies were forced into a union. I70S The union was made .ibsolute. The only reference to these struggles in Charles duBois' surviving manuscripts can be found in the letter he wrote to Ciovernor Pill in September 1702 (Add, MSS 22,851, ff. 1S4-IS.S — see appendix). Some records exist of Charles diiBois' saUirv (lOR llti7). In 1710 he was paid f20() a vear. and in I72.s £201) salary plus f'lOO graluitv His standing in the (\impany can be deduced from the fad thai in 1710 onlv two home ofticers were paid a higher salary: the Seeretarv (£240) and the .•Xcconiplant Cieneral (i;2.s(l). T'oster ( l'>24) mentions that on 27 March 172.^ Charles duBois was given a gratuity of >00 guineas and on S March 17.^2 a similar amount, with an allowance of t'.sO a year for house rent. 1-urther indicators of the wealth of the duBois family are that at the time of the union of the two companies Charles duBois held stock to the value of £2.885 12s,. while almost £5.000 worth of stock was held by three of his step-brothers. The final amalgamation of the Old and New Companies required a reconsideration of the ofticers employeil, but Charles duBois must have proved satisfactory, as he was eonlirmed in his post on 2*1 May 1704. In addition to his position as Treasurer of Ihe United C\inipanv. Charles duBois was one of Ihe seven Trustees of the Old Company, becoming sole Iruslee in 17Vi on the death of the only other Trustee then surviving, T^dward Ciibbon. 6 L. JESSOP Financial Scandals In the later years of his life, Charles duBois was involved in two financial scandals in his work for the East India Company. First, on 5 August 1730. the Chairman announced at a General Court that six of the supercargoes of the fleet lately returned (including Charles" nephew. Waldo duBois, who was third supercargo) had been found to have conspired to falsify their accounts, despite the fact that the chief supracargo might fairly and honestly gain upon the success of one voyage from eight to ten thousand pounds, and the rest in proportion". An action brought against the culprits in the Court of Chancery resulted in them paying the Company almost £l.'i,(HH). On 12 June 1734 the Committee of the Treasury of the Company reported that they had found a deficiency in the cash of about £1 1 .()()(), arising from the officers" practice of taking buyers" notes instead of cash in clearing goods (despite strict orders to the contrary) and of lending money to officials of the East India Company. Charles duBois and a clerk named Tullidge (who seems to have been chiefly responsible) were examined, and Tullidge was suspended. Charles duBois was accjuitted of dishonesty, but was found guilty of lack of supervision and dereliction of duty in not acquainting the Court of the Company with the state of affairs. On 24 July 1734 a general court was held, at which a memorial from Charles duBois was read, pleading his great age (he was now about 78) and long service. He placed all blame on Tullidge. declaring that the latter had. four years back, without his knowledge accepted notes from merchants to an amount between £30.()()() and £40. ()()(). and that on discovering this he had been frightened to disclose the facts in case the position of the debtors should be irretrievably shaken and the money lost to the company altogether. He had himself managed to get in the greater part of the amount, and the total deficiency would not much exceed £3.000. Further, he declared that although £60.000.000 had passed through the treasury during his tenure, he had never drawn any illicit profit, and that in the year of the South Sea crash he had saved the company many thousands. His employers were merciful, and accepted £300 from him in full discharge of his liability. That his position in the Company was not compromised is shown by a gratuity of £150 given to him in December 1737 and another one in April 1740. duBois and Mitcham In his will. John duBois senior bequeathed to Charles "my house and land in Micham in Surrey with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging except the furniture in the best chamber there which 1 give & leave to the disposal of my executor" (P.R.O. 11/378 [169 Hare]). Mitcham at the turn of the eighteenth century appears to have been a pleasant area. It was described by Aubrey (1718: 142) as being 'situate about nine miles from London, and well inhabited, and much frequented by the citizens of our Metropolis". The house was situated on the south side of Upper Green East, and the grounds were about 15 acres in extent. The original house was pulled down towards the end of the eighteenth century, and replaced by another (The Firs), which has also been demolished, the site currently (1987) being occupied by a number of houses and shops. The boundarv of the I-'irs site is clearly shown in the Ordnance Survcv 25 inch: 1 mile map of 1867. Charles duBois was verified in the Mitcham vestry minutes of 18 June 1738 as being entitled in his own right to a pew in the north aisle of the parish church which the owners and occupiers of his house had enjoyed 'since time immemorial' (Surrey Record Office. Court Rolls of the Manor of Biggin and Tamworth: teste E. N. Montague, per. comm.). CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES ,~fT!if^li"\ -^■y, ,;*.', .).i^ .ttfc f .\' THE DU BOIS TOMB He is remembered for his generosity in donating £200 for the purchase of Queen Anne's Bounty to augment the meagre income of the vicar of Mitcham (Jones, 1863). Charles duBois lies buried in the family grave in Mitcham churchyard (Church Road, Mitcham) close by that of the Waldos on the north side of the church: his will specified that he should be buried on the side of the church 'where the fewest graves are" (P.R.O. 11/705 [264 Browne]). The inscription on the tomb slab indicated thai he died '20 Oct. A.D. 1740, aetat. 83' (although the Gentleman's Magazine for 1740 (p. 325) says the death was on the 21 October). The tomb stone was also inscribed with the names of Waldo duBois (his brother's son, who died on 20 February 1746), Ebeneezer duBois (Charles' stepbrother, who died on 14 April 1747) and Sarah Charlotte duBois (his niece, who died on 12 April 1757 — not to be confused with the Sarah Waldo who married Humphrey Sibthorp and who died on 1 August 1756). A figure of the grave was given in Foster (1924), and is reproduced above. Foster described the inscriptions as being barely legible and the slab as being broken into six pieces: in 1987 only two of those pieces could be located, one being face-down on the ground beside the grave and the other (bearing part of Sarah Charlotte's name and eulogy) lying at an angle on the grave site. In 1716 the court baron of the Mitcham manor of Biggin and Tamworth was notified of the death of Mary duBois, and approved the admission of her son Charles as a tenant of the manor holding land in 'the Commonfield of Mitcham called Blacklands'. This seems to indicate thai a second Charles duBois was living in the area at thai lime (E. N. Montague, pers. comm). It is not known which man leased from Mary Bait in 1736 'two parcels of customary land containing by estimation 10 acres more or less called Blowers or Cold Blows formerly in the occupation of Philip Gardner'. 8 L. JESSOP The Mitcham Garden In Loudon (1838: 62-63) is a reference to an account prepared bv the Society of Gardeners, which indicates duBois' importance as a horticuhurahst. It says that duBois 'has . . . not only been very industrious to procure plants from abroad, but also as generous in communicating whatever his garden would afford, as also many useful observations relating both to their culture and uses." Loudon also gave a brief account of the state of duBois" garden in Mitcham in 1835. and listed some of the trees planted by him that still remained: a very large weeping willow; a nettle tree, with branches covering a space 50ft in diameter and a trunk 6'M" in circumference; a pinaster with a clear trunk about 4011 high and a girth 3ft from the ground 4ft. and a total height of 60ft; an old. large and handsome mulberry tree, the branches of which covered a space 60ft in diameter; very old and large scots pines [hence the name of the house built on the site]; a very large stone pine; a large Prunus Mahaleb; a fine Pleleci irifoliula; a stag's horn sumach, with a trunk 6ft in girth, and an old Bignomia radicans and a large Arbutus (names as given by Loudon). Anon (1812) claimed that duBois 'was a great and celebrated botanist, and had an excellent botanic garden to his house on the upper green, where the fair is kept, at Mitcham, in Surrey", and Lambert's manuscript note about famous gardens (MS in the library of the Linnean Society of London) says that duBois had 'a Great Collection of stove plants &c in great perfection" (stove plants are plants that were grown in heated houses). duBois" reputation as a botanic gardener is indicated by entries in the minute books of the Royal Society reporting that he was being given batches of imported seeds to raise and then reporting back to the Society on his success (two entries seen: I March 1698/9, and 3 December 1701). Perhaps another indication of his standing is the dedication to him of the third decade of Bradley's Historia Plantarum Succulentarum in 1725. It would appear from Peter Collinson's letter to William Byrd II in 1730 (from a contemporary transcription in the Westover manuscripts, Virginia Historical Society. teste Dr A. W. Armstrong) that Charles duBois carefully observed different methods of cultivation, and passed his observations on to others. Collinson says: I will close this long relation with an observation of a very curious gentleman Mr Charles Dubois who in his travels thro' the South parts of France & Spain was very agreeably entertained in their gardens from variety of fruits growing together being regularly planted with cherries apples & pears and against every tree grew a vine which run up into the tree and was supported by its branches. & when he was there, was picntilully hung with fruit, and ripen'd to great perfection and a moderate skill in pruning served. A little can be deduced about duBois' garden from his insect notebook. For instance the references to 'The Rasps" (Musca quadripennis 1, Musca 5 & 15 and notes 28 & 36), 'Currans" (Scarabeus 14, Musca 7. Musca 15, Vespa 2 and Notes 1), an apple tree (Scarabeus 32), cherry leaves (Apis 4), 'Aprecock Leaves" (Musca 13 and notes 8) and a gooseberry bush (Scarabeus 29) indicate that he probably grew those fruits. Scarabeus 8 is described as being taken on a rose. Scarabeus 1 and 3 were taken whilst digging the ground in September, Scarabeus 24 out of new-dug earth in April, and the chrysalis of Phalaena 25 out of new-dug earth at the beginning of June. Thysanoptera (notes 29) are described as being associated with hot-beds, Scarabei aquatici 1 was taken in water in a pond, and this could have been the pond in the garden marked on the 1867 Ordnance Survey map. The garden probably also contained a water tub (Scarabeus 10), a woodshed (Phalaena 28) and an outside privy ('necessary house', notes 33). CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 9 Scientific and Social Activities Towards the end of the seventeenth eentury, there was a group of naturaHsts in the London area, who possessed a considerable body of knowledge about natural history. It is unfortunate that because they published very little about their activities and findings, their knowledge perished with them, and as a corollary many of these figures now lie in relative obscurity Several of these naturalists were of a similar age: for instance, Joseph Dandridge (baptised 1664); James Petiver (born 1663); William Sherard (born 1659); Adam Buddie (born approx. 166(1); Sir Hans Sloane (born 166(1); Samuel Doody (born 1656); and of course Charles duBois (born ca 1656). Leonard Plukenet, who was born in 1641, was slightly older than the others. Fortunately a lot of the private correspondence of the participants in the natural history scene of that time found its way into the vast assemblage of papers now known as the Sloane manuscripts, and in recent years some historians have researched into these papers and presented interpretations of the activities of some of Charles duBois' contemporaries. Fasti (1950) (a doctoral thesis, a copy of which is in the BMNH), for instance, studied one of duBois' known associates, William Sherard. and Stearns (1952) summarised the life and activities of another associate, James Petiver. Fasti's work in particular contains much information on the naturalists of that time. The activities of the group of friends included meetings in coffee houses (Sloane MSS 4067, f.7), where they are known to have examined botanical specimens (Sloane MSS 4037, ff. 102-103). and in taverns (Sloane MSS 4066, f. 283-284). They also made botanical excursions (e.g. to Chislehurst bogg: Sloane MSS 4066, f.283). The group of naturalists was referred to by Pasti and Stearns as the Temple Coffee House Club, and as the Temple Coffee House Botany Club, but there is no evidence of contemporary use of these names. It was Pasti who first discovered the existence of a club at the Temple Coffee House, the earliest certain reference to which is in a letter from William Vernon to Sloane dated July 1698 (Sloane MSS 4037, ff. 102-103) in which Vernon says that he will bring a collection of plants every Friday night to be discussed. Only one other letter so far discovered (Sloane MSS 4067, f.7: undated) refers to a club at the Temple Coffee House. Stearns claimed that duBois was a member of the Temple Coffee House Botany Club, the evidence cited for this being Sloane MSS 4067, f.81 and Sloane MSS 4020, f.l()7 (the mayoral permit that allowed duBois and several friends to travel to Gravesend on a Sunday) (sec appendix for text). Sloane MSS 4067, f.81 is a letter from Petiver to Breynius, dated Christmas eve, 1692, and includes the sentence "Yesternight aft a Meeting of Botanick ffriends, amongst whom were present y^' Ingenious Dr Plukenett. Dr Sloan, Dr Robinson. Mr Newton, Mr Doody, Mr Dale, Mr Du-Bois &c, who all dranke & wisht y' health.' As neither of these letters refer either to a club or to the Temple Coffee House, there is no firm evidence presently known that proves duBois was a member of that club. Other than the letters cited in the appendix and Sloane MSS 4067. f.81 (quoted above) the only references to Charles duBois' participation in the scientific life of the group that have so far come to light are three letters cited in Nichols (1817); Mr Tillcman Botiart was with mc; and presently came Mr Maningham. with Mr Rand; and soon after that, Mr Dubois and my Brother. It is the first lime so many (lor there are few more) have met together since I came into England . . . wc remembered all our Botanic Friends. (10 May 17IU. William Sherard to Richard Richardson) I fear Mr Dubois has suffered as much as others. Not having been at Mitcham all the winter, till within this ten days, having been long ill: I called in on him this evening. 10 L. JF.SSOP and was told he was returned mueh heltcr. but was lain down. (28 March 1721. Sherard to Richardson, discussing gardens) Dr Dillenius ... is to go to Mitchain to view what Mr Dubois has. (Dillenius was preparing a book on Lichenes. Musci &c) (7 December 1721. Sherard to Richardson) Apart from the insect notebook presented here, which is dated 1692 and 1695, there is no evidence of Charles duBois" involvement in these activities before his letter to Sir Hans Sioane dated 29 May 1697 (Sloane MSS 4036, f.316: see appendix). An analysis of the Sloane correspondence, Collinson (1766) and Nichols (1817) as well as the duBois insect notebook provides us with a list of some of the naturalists of that time who were Charles duBois' acquaintances. The known names are: Tilleman Bobart, Joannes Philippus (aka Jacobus) Breynius, Peter Collinson. John Cox, Samuel Dale, James (?=Joseph) Dandridge, Dr J. J. Dillenius, Samuel Doody. Richard Fildon, Rev. Thomas Maningham, Joseph Miller. James Newton. James Petiver, Leonard Plukenet, Isaac Rand, Richard Richardson, Tancred Robinson, William Sherard and his brother James, Sir Hans Sloane, William Stonestreet and John Verdy. The only one of these scientific associates mentioned in Charles duBois' will was Isaac Rand, who was bequeathed £10, but as his profession (apothecary) was stated in the will, he may have served the duBois family in a professional capacity, as did Sloane (Sloane MSS 4056, f.62 — see appendix). duBois' friends outside the scientific world must have included men of considerable power, as in 1702 he described Robert Harley, then Speaker of the House of Commons, and Sir Francis Wyndham as being 'both my very kind friends' (Add. MSS 22851, f. 186 [see appendix]). Foster (1924) noted that a Charles duBois attended the funeral of Samuel Pepys in June 1703 and was given a ring value 15 shillings, but there is no evidence that it was this Charles duBois. duBois provided observations to John Ray, as Ray (1724: 364) includes the statement: Violae canlnae varietatem, si non speciem diversam ohservavit D. Du-Bois . . . Maio mense in pc2scuis circa Miicham. There is, however, no evidence that the two men ever met, although they did have mutual friends, e.g. Petiver & Sloane (see Raven, 1942 for information on Ray's associates), nor that he met Dr Buckley, who sent him curiosities from India (Add. MSS 22851, f.184-185 [see appendix]). The Introduction of Rice to Carolina Collinson (1766) gives an account of the introduction of rice into the (then) British colony of Carolina. It reads: In the year 1696. my sagacious friend Charles Dubois, then |sic| treasurer to the Ea<:t India Company, told me often with pleasure, that he first put the Carolinians on the culture of rice. He happened one day, in that year, to meet Thomas Marsh, a Carolina merchant, at the coffee house, to whom he said, 1 have been thinking, from the situation, nature of the soil, and climate, that rice may be produced to great advantage in Carolina: But says Marsh, how shall we get some to try? Why. says Dubois. 1 will enquire for it amongst our India captains. — Accordingly, a money bag full of Fmsi India rice was given to Marsh, and he sent it to South Carolina; and in the year 1698. he told his friend Dubois, that it had succeeded very well. A briefer account of Collinson's recollection is to be found in a draft letter from Collinson to Samuel Eveleigh dated 22 April 1737 (in the library of the Linnean Society, teste Dr A. W. Armstrong), which reads: CHARLES OLIBOIS' INSECT NOTES 11 Mr Dubois. Treasurer to the E. India Comp, who is yett Living, has Several times told Mee that att the request of Mr. Marsh a Marchant He Procur'd for him a Hundred pound Money bag of Rice to send to Carolina . . . Foster (1924) claims, however, that it was not Charles duBois but his step-brother John who was responsible for the introduction of rice to Carolina. It is of course possible that Charles utilised John's influence in the East India Company to help him in his scheme and John thus obtained some of the credit. It should be noted that rice did succeed very well in Carolina (see Collinson, 1766), but that further introductions were initially necessary before it became properly established. duBois and the Royal Society Charles duBois was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1700. At that time, election to Fellowship was not an honour conferred usually upon exceptionally outstanding scientists as it is now, but seems to have been open to anyone with a serious scientific interest. An index exists for entries in the Journal Book of the Royal Society up to the year 1700. Those concerning duBois are as follows: 13 April 1698; 'Mr Cha", Dubois presented an entire Cocode Maldivia [?Coco de Mer, Lodoicea maldntca] for which great rarity it was ordered y' he should have the thanks of the Society and that Mr Hunt should make an Exact Draught of it to represent it in sev' postures and y' it sH be carefully preserved in ye Repository.' 1 March 1698/9: It was reported that seeds from the East India collection had been examined by Sloane and given to Dr Uvedale. Mr Doudy [= Doody?). the Bishop of London, the Duchess of Beaufort, Mr Dubois and Mr Bobart, who would try to grow them and report back to the Society on their success. 30 November 170(1: Mr Charles Dubois, Capt. Edmund Hally and Mr John Chile of Oxford were also ballotted & Chosen Members of the Society.' Another entry has been seen in the Journal Book, dated 3 December 1701: a report that seeds from Virginia were to be divided between the 'Duchess of Beaufort, the Bishop of London, Dr Uvedale. Mr Waller, Mr Dubois and Mr Doody.' On 27 May 1714 it was reported that: Mr Charles DuBois some time since Chosen a ffellow of the R.S. being put to the ballot his Election was Confirmed, and being present sealed the Bond paid his Admission money Subscribed the obligation and was Admitted a Fellow of the R.S.' It is not clear why duBois waited 14 years between election and admittance. The Genus Duboisia The genus Duboisia (Scrophulariaceae) was described by Robert Brown (Brown. 1810). It has been claimed (e.g. in the Charles duBois entry in the Dictionary of National Biography) that Duboisia was named in honour of Charles duBois, yet there is no evidence in the original description to support the theory. Don (1838: 479) stated that Duboisia was named after Louis Dubois. 12 L. JESSOP Charles duBois' Collections In his will (P.R.O. 1 1/705 [264 Browne]), Charles duBois bequeathed to his brother-in- law Ebeneezer all of his books and also: all my Books of specimens of Dryed plants the cases and drawers in which the same are all my natural and artificial curiosities and samples of all my Roman and other coins and medalls and whatsoever shall be in my closet at Mitcham ... or in the gardens there to be held and enjoyed by him . . . except and rescr\ing unto my heire Sarah Charlotte duBois the liberty of taking to her own use such Books Coins and other curiosities in the said closet as she shall think fitt Concerning the library, several books are mentioned in the insect notebook and duBois' correspondence, but it is possible that he had seen some or all of these in the libraries of his friends. The only work that can be said with certainty to have been owned by duBois is Albin ( 1720) A Natural History of F.nglish Insects, as his name is among the list of subscribers. The next mention of the collection was in Anon (1812), which comprises notes made by Mendes da Costa on collections of naturalists. Da Costa says of duBois that "he had collections of shells, fossils &c of which I saw some at Mr Waldo's, junior, about 1760." Presumably on the death of Ebeneezer duBois the Closet and its contents had passed on to the nephew Waldo duBois. The present whereabouts of the Roman and other coins, books, shells, fossils etc. is not known: they may still exist or they may not, but the specimens of dried plants did survive and are now located in the collections of Oxford University, possibly being acquired by that institution through the influence of Sarah (grand-daughter of Samuel Waldo, Charles duBois' Stepmother's brother), who had married Humphrey Sibthorp, the Sherardian Professor of Botany in 1740 (Jones, 186.^: 16). The herbarium was described in detail by Druce (1928), who described the way in which it was badly treated under the direction of Professor Balfour. Druce also listed the British plants contained in the herbarium and some of the botanists who contributed specimens: most of the known British collectors of the period are represented as well as foreign botanists such as Pitton de Tournefort. Collections of plants from India and the Cape are mentioned as well as their collectors. The herbarium also contains specimens that Mark Catesby collected in America, which indicates that Charles duBois was one of those who provided the money for his expedition. He also subscribed to W. Houstoun's expedition to the Spanish colonies in the Americas in 1732 (Sloane MSS 405.3, f. 167). Charles duBois contributed specimens of plants to the Sloane herbarium, and these are discussed by Dandy (Dandy. 1958). If duBois had a collection of preserved insects and if they had been incorporated in the Sloane collection, they would almost certainly have perished in the "periodical bonfires of Sloanian specimens' held by W. E. Leach. By 1833 it was reported that "literally not a vestige' remained of Sloane's insect collection (Stearn, 1981:205-206). Charles duBois' Character It is usual in biographies to give some indication of the character of the person portrayed. In the case of Charles duBois there is not much on which to base a character analysis: his correspondence reveals very little about his private life, and he did not commit to paper any of those violent differences of opinion that generally cast light on historic personalities. CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECTNOTES 13 Although Charles duBois often signed his letters as 'your humble and obedient servant", it is to be doubted that this was any more than a formula: letter-writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had no more humility and obedience than twentieth century writers have sincerity or fidelity. No portrait is known to exist, so we cannot read his character from his features. The contemporary references to duBois" character are few. Petiver calls him his 'worthy friend' (Sloane MSS 2347 item 77), while Peter Collinson refers to him as 'a very curious gentleman'; curious in those days meaning full of curiosity, not implying strangeness as it does today (letter to William Byrd II, 1730 in Virginia Historical Society) and on another occasion calls him 'my sagacious friend' (Collinson, 1766). Because of the frequent references in his correspondence to meetings (at Coffee Houses or Drinking Houses or at the houses of his friends), Charles duBois leaves an overall impression of being a fairly 'clubable' character, yet it should be remembered that there is only a handful of such references in a life span of 83 years. Foster (1924) painted the following pen-picture: To myself 1 Hgure him as a kindly old gentleman in spectacles, riding down from London on a Friday evening, and reining in his nag to a walk as the lavender fields of Mitcham come into view; or later on, seated in his library over a cup of tea, telling his niece the news of the town and turning over the leaves of a botanical treatise to settle some question which has occurred to him during his journey; or next morning, in a shabby coat and with a bandanna handkerchief tied round his head, pottering about his sunny garden and in and out of his greenhouses, marking the progress of his latest importations and scribbling additions to his notes. Attractive as such a romantic picture of the man is, we should not forget that there is no evidence to support it. To the present editor, the deepest insight into Charles duBois' character is the phrase that occurs in the last paragraph of his will (P.R.O. 11/705 [264 Browne]), which was dated 29 April 1737, three years before his decease. It says: 'and now heartily and sincerely forgiveing all and every person whatsoever that have in any way injured me I most humbly recommend my Soul unto thy hands. ' What is most telling is not that he is remembering his friends, as most people would at such a time, but at the last remembering his enemies kindly. This marks him as an essentially good man. NOTES ON THE MANUSCRIPT Introduction The manuscript reproduced here in facsimile is now located in the Entomology Library of the British Museum (Natural History), where it has the press mark S.B.o D.I2 A. Notes on the hrst and last pages indicate that the work was purchased from Professor J. Percival of 'Leighton'. Shinlield Green, Reading, Berks by the British Museum (Natural History) on the 28 February 1945 for £4.00. The history of the manuscript is otherwise unknown. Professor John Percival (1863-1949) worked at the University of Reading between 1902 and 1932 where he was first lecturer in, and later Professor of Agricultural Botany (obituary by Brierly. 1949). The authorship of the manuscript was anonymous until 1986. when work on editing it for publication began. There are two indications supporting the belief that it is the work 14 L. JESSOP of Charles duBois: first, the handwriting, which agrees strongly with that contained in his autograph letters, and secondly, there is an entry in James Petiver's collecting diary (not the work of James Plukcnel, as claimed by Hammond, 1975 — the handwriting is definitely that of Petiver) which says "77 Papilio aurora marmorea oculata . . . This I caught Sept 23. 1695 going to my worthy Friends Mr Ch: Du-Bois's at Mitcham . . .' (Sloane MSS 2347). This last entry agrees with Papilio 9 of the present notebook, which was reportedly 'given me by M' Petiver 23"" September who took it v"^^ Same day coming to Mitcham'. In 1986 the pages of the work were thick and hard, having been at some time painted with starch, but in that year they were treated to remove the starch; that process also resulted in the writing becoming a little fainter. The book was also disbound (it was not at that time in its original binding) and currently comprises single sheets, the exception being the two folios containing the sideways-written notes, which are joined together. It is the intention of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Library to have the book rebound in the near future. The manuscript comprises 64 folios of Charles duBois' work and a title page added later by a different hand, which is also reproduced here. Some comments on the contents of the work by an unknown hand are associated with the manuscript, but are not reproduced here. Also not reproduced are the 20 sides that are completely blank. The folios are sized 145 mm by 181-183 mm in the first part of the work (as it was found in 1986) and from the folio beginning with Notes 14 to the end of the work the pages are sized 145 mm by 186 mm. The manuscript is in sepia coloured ink on cream coloured paper, and is reproduced here in slightly greater contrast than the original. A small part of the manuscript, for instance the page containing Scarabeus 33-35, is in blacker ink. At one stage, when the work was ordered as it was found in 1986. the pages have been numbered, a number being written in pencil at the bottom right hand corner of alternate sides. The order of the pages in 1986 did not present a logical progression of notes, and the order has been re-arranged in the present work. There is no evidence that the sequence of pages then or now is as Charles du Bois intended. The order as bound was: Papilio 1-12 Notes (sideways) 21-33 Tunbridge Wells 4-5 Apis 1^ Tunbridge Wells 1-3 Cimex Muscac quadripennes 1-3 Musca 1-11 Musca 12-17 Palaena 1-30 Scarabeus 1-11 Notes 1-20 Scarabei aquatici Notes 34-79 Pseudo-Scarabei Vcspa 1-10 Gryllotalpa Miscellany thoughts about vegetables. Notes (sideways) 28-31 The manuscript is capable of division into four parts: 1. Notes upon Insects, which contains 79 entries, and is dated 1692-1695. One part of these notes is written sideways, and does not interpolate well with the other pages (note 20 is on the reverse of a page starting with note .34, so the sideways-written notes cannot be inserted in numerical order). 2. Several sections of descriptions of insects arranged systematically by genus, but not systematically within genus. 3. Descriptions of five insects collected in Tunbridge Wells CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 15 4. Miscellany thoughts about vegetables. Some species occur twice in the notebook, once in Notes and once under their genus. Where this is the case there is a spot of ink present at the end of each line of text of Notes, and in some cases a vertical line is drawn through the text. This, and the general untidiness of Notes when compared to the sections arranged systematically leads naturally to the conclusion that Notes was a rough piece of work that was later re- organised, the generic arrangement being the final version. It is not clear, however, why some of the species were re-worked and some were not. In the present work the generically-arranged section is presented first, in the order: Papilio; Phalaena; Scarabeus; Scarabei aquatici; Pseudo-Scarabei; Gryllotalpa; Muscae quadripennes; Musca; Vespa; Apis; Cimex. This section is followed by the five Tunbridge Wells specimens, then Notes and finally the miscellaneous thoughts on vegetables. Places and Dates of Capture The year of capture of individual species is not known, except for the indication of 1692 and 1695 on the first page of Notes, and for Papilio 9, which the Petiver collecting diary (Sloane MSS 2347) confirms was caught in 1695. The dates in the diary are not those of the modern calendar, as 11 days were omitted from the year 1752 in order to bring the British into line with the Julian calendar. All of the dates in the diary are therefore 1 1 days later in the modern calendar (1 April old style is equivalent to 12 April new style). In duBois' time, the New Year began on the 25 March, which is why some of the dates given in correspondence written early in the year are given two years, e.g. 2 February 1712/3 (Sloane MSS 4065, f. 100)— this date would be the 13 February 1713 new style. The places of capture given in the notebook are as follows: between London and Mitcham (Papilio 9); by the riverside (Papilio 11 and Scarabeus 11); Tunbridge Wells Common (Tunbridge Wells 5 and Phalaena 19); the Lane near East Field [now Eastfields Lane, Mitcham?) (Musca 14 and Phalaena 26); Greenwich town (Scarabeus 9); in the street in London (Scarabeus 40); the gravel pits (Scarabeus 41); 'about our house in London' (Pseudo-scarabeus); 'in my brother's garden at Hackney' (Musca 1) and Mr Stonestreet's house at Carshalton (Phalaena 26). It is probable that most of the remaining specimens were collected in the vicinity of Mitcham, but it should be borne in mind that there is no concrete evidence for that assumption. Literature mentioned in the Manuscript Notes 57 and 60 mention Dni Hook Micrograph. This is: Hooke, R. 1665. Micrographia: or some phvsiologwal descriptions oj miiuite bodies made by magnifying glasses. Notes 29 and Phalaena 13 mention Mouffet, and question its accuracy. Mouffet is quoted in Latin and not English, which may indicate the edition duBois used: Mouffet, T. 1634. Insectoruni sive minimorum Animaliiim Theatnim, not the 1658 translation. Pseudo Scarabei mentions Swammerdam. This is: Swammerdam, J. 1669. Historia Insectoriim generulis. Apis 1 (Bombylius) mentions Purchas's Theatre of flying insects. Anno 1657. This is: Purchas, S. 1657. A Theatre ofpoliticull Flying Insects. Wherein especially the nature . . . and the manner of right-ordering of the Bee. is discovered and described. 16 L. JESSOP duBois' Assumptions Part of the attraction of old works is the amusement to be gained from the sometimes outlandish assumptions and prejudice they contain. Thence the continued attraction of works such as the bestiaries and Mouffets Theater of Insects. The duBois manuscript contains little that is ridiculous: it is a work of sound common sense about a mundane (rather than exotic) subject, and there are no unicorns or other fantastic beasts. Probably the only outlandish notion in the notebook is that the head of the caterpillar is that end which is the tail of the butterfly (Phalaena 14). This notion is not original, for it is contained in Mouffet's discussion of silk molhs where he says: 'This is a pleasing thing and worthy to be noted, that the head of the Silk-worm, makes the tail of the butterfly in that golden coloured metamorphosis, and the tail the head; which also happeneth in all other catterpillars that are changed into an Aurelia." The belief possibly arose from seeing the head of the butterfly emerging from the free end of a hanging pupa, and assuming that head end of the caterpillar attaches to the pupation site (whereas in fact they attach by the tail end). The belief had already been refuted by Ray in 1660, who says (translation by Ewan and Prime): It will not be proper (for the matter can be easily observed) to draw attention to the mistake which Moulet and others make in asserting that the head of the caterpillar is changed into the tail of the moth: for in every caterpillar that I have seen the exact opposite is fact.' Some of the instances where duBois leaves plain description and indulges in supposition are: Papilio 8: The first pair [of legs are] plumose serving to brush the eyes and head I suppose. Phalaena 25: the female soon lays her eggs whether she doth coire or not. though in this last case they are sterile. Scarabeus 2: Perhaps this may be the female, which in most cases is the biggest. Pseudo-Scarahei: It appears they grow after exclusion. Notes 14: The mouth is like a lobster's claws, opening sideways and one going over the other so that it seems to be an insect of prey in armour. Notes 26: Query if kin to the cuckoo spit (note that duBois does not describe the cuckoo spit bug — perhaps he thought it was too common to include). Notes 49: This contrivance is to preser\e the true wings from being wetted when they swim. In some cases duBois questions his own identifications, or gives reasons for them. For instance, in the description of Musca 1 he says that the way of flying and looks of it would make one suspect it a bee, but that it has but two wings and a head of the make of a fly. This distinction between Hymenoptera and Diptera was probably made after he had described Notes 18 (which is hymenopteran) as a dipteran (Musca respoides . . .). The distinctions between Hymenoptera and dipterous mimics of Hymenoptera suggest that duBois was familiar with the notion of looking beyond superhcial appearances and at the underlying structures of an animal when classifying it. List of Determinations The help of various members of the staff of the Entomology Department of the British Museum (Natural History) in arriving at the following determinations is gratefully acknowledged. Abbreviations used in this section are: Dipt., Diptera; Col., Coleoptcra; Hym., Hymenoptera; Lep., Lepidoptcra. CHARLES DUBOIS' lNSr;CT NOTES '^ (Jenus Papilionaeum (all I>epldoptera) 1 NympliuliJjc-' /l,i,'/i"v iinuiic (Small Idrloiscshcll) 2 Pieridac. Pieris rapae tcmalc (Small While) 3 Satyridac. Lasiommiitii megera {WM) 4 Nymphalidac. Vunc.sra a(u/rt«M (Red Admiral) 5 Pieridac. Gonopleryx rliamm (Brimstone) 6 Nymphalidac. Polygoma c-alhum (Comma) 7 Pieridac. Pifru hra.vs/iaf (Large White) 8 Nymphalidac. Cv«'/i(« <"«/"' (Painted Lady) 9 Lycaenidae. /.yiucmj /i/i/ucu.v (Small Copper) 10 Satyridac. Maniola jitrtiini (Meadow Brown) 1 1 Satyridac. Aplumuipm hvpeninlhiis (Ringlet) 12 Satyridac. Maniohi iiiriiim underside (Meadow Brown) Genus Phalaenaceum 1 Lep.. Pyralidae. //v/«nno species. 23 Lep., Geometridae. Xamlunhiie jimiuala (Garden Carpet) 24 Lep., Geometridae. Campiogrumma bilmeata (Yellow Shell) 25 Lep. indet. 26 Lep, Geometridae. 77;m«(/ra gnsfudj (Blood-vein) 27 indct. 28 indct. 24 indet. 30 indet. Scarabinum Genus (all Coleoptera) 1 Carabidae. 7 Nebna hmicoUis 2 Carabidae. Calalhiis fuscipes 3 Carabidae. Carahns sp. 4 Chrysomclidae. Timanha tenehricosa 5 Anobiidac. ? Slegohium pankeum 6 Elateridae. Melamiliis villiisiis 7 Elateridae. '} Atliom hacmorrhiitdalis 8 Cerambycidae. SlentKorus meruiianus '^ Scarabaeidae. Ceioma aiirata 10 Chrysomclidae. Gaslrophysa vindula 11 Chrysomelidac. Phaedon farmoriciae 18 L. JESSOP 12 Chrysomelidae. "? Prasocuris jimci 13 Mordcllidac. MordelUstena abdominalis 14 Canlharidac, Cantharis pellucida or C. nigricans 15 CaiMhdTidaQ. Cantharis lividaoT C. cryptica 16 Canlharidac. Rha^onycha fidva 17 Oedemeridae. Ischnomera caendea or Oedetm-ra lurida 18 Curculionidac. Ciuniis sp. 19 Coccinellidac. Adalia bipunciaia 20 Scarabaeidae. Phyllopertha horlicola 21 Cerambycidac. Clylus arielLs 22 Curculionidac. Phyllohius ?pomaceiis 23 Tcnebrionidae. Blups muvronata 24 Carabidae. Harpalus affinis 23 ? Dermestidac (Dermesies sp.) or Anobiidae (Xesiohium rujovdhsum) 26 Coleoptera indet. 27 Scarabaeidae. -4p/i(>(^'w5 sp. 28 Carabidae. Notiophdiis ? higuttaius 29 Pyrochroidae. Pyrochroa serraticomis 30 Carabidae. Pleroslichus madidiis 31 Carabidae. Cicindeia campeslris 32 Curculionidac. "!Ph\llohius urgentatus 33 Coccinellidac. Adalia '^bipunciaia or decempunclala 34 Cerambycidac. "^Grammoptera mjicornis 35 Tcnebrionidae. Cylindrinolus laeviocloslrialus 36 Tcnebrionidae. Cylindrinolus laeviocloslrialus 37 Chrysomelidae. Gaslrophysa viridula 38 Scarabaeidae. Melolonlha meloloniha 39 Melyridac. Malachtus '.'bipuslulalus or vindis 40 Silphidae. /"/id/idto/j/ii/Hj species, probably 5mH(i/i« 41 Carabidae. "^Bembidion species, or Asaphidion species Scarabei aquatici 1 Col.. Dytiscidae Probably -4^a/j(ts species Pseudo-Scarabei 1 Dictyoptera. Blatla orienlalis Gryllotalpa 1 Orthoplcra. Gryllolalpidae. Cirvllotalpa sp . if Bnlish then G. gryllotalpa Muscae quadripennes 1 Mecoplcra, Panorpidae. Panorpa sp. 2 Ncuroptcra. Chrysopidae. Chrysopa sens. lat. 3 Neuroptera. Chrysopidae. Chrysopa sens. lal. Musca (all Diptera) 1 Syrphidac. ?Lucozona lucorum. Volucella inflala or V.pellucens 2 Syrphidae. '!Syrphus sp. 3 Syrphidac. ?Syrphus ^p. 4 Syrphidae. 'JPlaiycheirus sp. 5 ?Sarcophagidac, 'JSarcophaga 6 Sarcophagidac. Sarcophaga sp. 7 Stratiomyiidae. Sargus sp. 8 Syrphidae. 9 Syrphidae. Erislalis lenax 10 Straliomyiidae. '^Beris sp. 1 1 Mmpididac. F.mpis livida male. 12 Muscidac. Helinasp. 13 Diplera indct. CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 14 Syrphidac. Chrysoloxum caulum 15 Dolichopodldac, Ptn-iiliihothnis nohililattis 16 lUiciUa (Calliphoridac) or Dohehopodidae 17 Syrphidac. Rhmgia campeslris Vespinum genus 1 Hym., indet. 2 Hym.. indet. 3 Hym.. '.'Myrmosidac. Myrmusa 4 Hym., Ichneumonidac 5 Hym , Ichneumonidac 6 Hym., Ichneumonidac 7 Hym., Ichneumonidac 8 indet. 9 Hym., Ichneumonidac 10 Hym., Ichneumonidac Apinum genus 1 Hym., Apidae. Bomhiis llucorum 1 Hym., Apidae. IChelosumw 3 Hym, Tcnlhrcdmidac. 'Alhiilia 4 Hym. Chrysididae. Genus Cimicinum 1 Hemiplcra, Pentalomidac (immature). Tunbridge Wells 1 Hym., Apidae. Romhiis f.p.. 'lapidariiis or niderariiis 2 indet. 3 Lep.. Pieridae. Pieri.s napi (Green-veined White) 4 Lep., Satyridae. Pyroma liihonus male (Gatekeeper) 5 Col, Geotrupidac. Geolrupes ?spiniger or slercorarius Notes upon Insects &c. 1 Dipt.. Empididac. F.mpis Ifs.tt'lhua male 2 Lep., Geomctridac (immature) 3 Lep. (immature) 3 (repeated number) indct. 4 jScarabcus 6] 5 Hym., Tenthrcdinidac. 6 IScarabeus I8| 7 Lep., Noctuidac. Cm ullia verhasci iMu\]c'in) 8 Lep. (immature) 9 Dipt. Tahanidae. Haemalopota sp., probably H. pluvialis 10 Hemiptcra, contlalion of aphids and typhlocybine Cicadellidac 11 Lep., Cossidae. 7? Zeuzera pyrina (Leopard Moth) 12 |Phalaena9| 13 mdet. 14 [Vespa 1| LS jcimex 1| 1(1 IMusca 15] 17 IScarabeus 13| 18 Hym, Tenthrcdinidac. IMacrophya^p. 19 IScarabeus I7| 20 [Vespa 4| 21 IScarabeus 21] 22 IScarabeus 14| 23 IScarabeus 15| 24 IScarabeus 201 19 20 L. JESSOP 25 Hym., Tenthridinidac. Nemalm ribesii (immalurc) 26 Hemiptera, Miridae. Lygocoris sp. 27 indct. . possibly the same as Notes 26 28 Col.. Njtidulidac. Mfligethes aenetts 29 Thysanoptera. Phlaeothripidae 28 (repeated number) Odonata. Libetlulidae. LiheUula depressa 29 (repeated number) Odonala. '^ Platycnemu pennipes (Platyencmididae). or Coenagrionidae 30 ?Diplopoda 31 ?Coleoptera 32 Col.. Carabidae. Agonum dorsale 33 Dipt.. Anisopodidae. Sylvicola fenesiralis 34 C'Vcspa 5] 35 |'.'Vespa4J 36 Hym., Tenthredinidae. '^Tenthreda 37 IMusca 10) 38 Dipt-, Conopidae, Myopa sp,. probably ;V/. testacea 39 Dipt. Syrphidac. Myolepta luleula 4(1 Dipt-. Syrphidae. Chrysogaster sp. 41 Dipt.. Platystomatidae. Platystoma senunationis 42 |Scarabeus8] 43 jphalaena 16| 44 Hemiptera, Cercopidae. 1 Phdaenus spumarius 4.^ Dipt indet. 46 Dipt. ■^'Syrphidae 47 Dipt.. '.'Syrphidae 48 Dipt.. 'Syrphidae 49 (Scarabei aquatici 1| 50 jphalaena 12] 51 jphalaena I3| 52 jPhalaena I4| 53 |Scarabeus9| 54 jscarabeus 10) 55 Dipt, indet. .56 IPhalaena 15| 57 Dipt., Calliphoridae. Calliphora sp.. probably C. vicitw 58 Dipt.. ?Lonchaea sp. (Lonchaeidae) 59 Dipt, indet. 60 Dipt, (there are figures in Hook's Micrographia of Culex) 61 IPapilio 10| 62 IScarabeus 5] 63 IScarabeus 4| 64 (Pseudo-Scarabei l| 65 [Scarabeus 33] 66 (Scarabeus 6| 67 [Scarabeus 7| 68 jphalaena 17] 69 jPhalaena I8| 70 jScarabeus 16] 71 Dipt, indet 72 Dipt.. Syrphidae. Platycheirus sp. 73 Dipt, indet. 74 IScarabeus 11| 75 jScarabeus 12] 76 jPapilio 11 1 77 jpapilio 12i 78 Ephemcroptera. Baetidae. Kloeon dipierum 79 Lep., Noctuidac (Vrani/rflpi.vi (Broom Moth) CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 21 FURTHER READING Allen (1976) is the best general introduction to the history of natural history in Britain, and if possible this should be supplemented by reading through back issues of the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History (later Archives of Natural History), which contains some very readable articles. Raven (1942) is an excellent work, which describes the life and achievements of John Ray, some of whose friends and correspond- ents were either probably or certainly acquainted with Charles duBois. On the entomological side Lisney (196(1) contains biographical notes on those entomologists who published during the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as a detailed bibliography of the period. Gardner (1930) deals in detail with the compila- tion and publication of Mouffet's Theater of Insects. Allen (1967) and Bristowe (1976) discuss the entomological activities of duBois" contemporaries, especially Joseph Dandridge. Bodenheimer (1928-29 — in German) discusses extensively entomology before Linnaeus. Several British naturalists contemporary with duBois, mainly known as botanists, are discussed in Pasti (1950), a microfilm of which is lodged in the library of the British Museum (Natural History). The best description of the botanical scene of the period is contained in Henrey (1975). Dandy (1958) contains accounts of those botanists who are known to have contributed to the Sloane Herbarium, many of whom must have been friends of duBois. Most of the references to duBois as a botanist were first traced through Britten and Boulger (1931), which was revised by Desmond (1977). The social history of 17th-century London is covered excellently in Beier and Finlay (1986), which contains a large number of references to papers on the state of the metropolis in duBois' time. The history of the East India Company is covered by several works, but the most detailed account by far of the duBois family involvement in it is contained in Foster (1924), which also contains a drawing of Charles duBois' grave. Acknowledgements. I would like to thank the lollowing for their assistance in the production of this work: the Entomology Librarians of the British Museum (Natural History) (Miss J. Harvey and Miss P. Gilbert); the librarians of the British Library. Guildhall tJbrary, India Office Library, Linncan Society of London, Public Record Office and Royal Society; Mr D. E. Allen; Mr E. N. Montague; Dr A. W. Armstrong, and my colleagues in the Entomology Department of the British Museum (Natural History). Special thanks are due to the Photographic Unit of the British Museum (Natural History) for their excellent work in photographing the manuscript. Thanks are due to the British Library and the Royal Society for granting permission to publish transcripts of manuscripts in their collections. reff;rences Unpublished References: abbreviations used Add. MSS: British Library, London, Additional Manuscripts. I. OR.; Records of the East India Company now held in the India Office Library and Records, London. P.R.O.; Manuscripts in the Public Record Office London. Sloane MSS: Sloane manuscripts in the British Library, London. 22 L. JESSOP Published References [Anon] 1812. Notices and Anecdotes of Literati. Collectors. &c. from a MS by the late Mendcs de Costa and collected between 1747 and 1788. The Gentleman's Magazine and HislorUal Chronicle 82: 205-207. Allen, D. E. 1966. Joseph Dandridge and the first Aurelian Society. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 78: 89-94. 1976. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History. London (Allen Lane) xii + 292 pp. Aubrey, J. 1718. The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey. London (Curll) Volume II. viii + 307 pp. Beier, A. L. & Finlay, R. 1986. The Making of the Metropolis. London 1500-1700. London & New \ork (Longman) x + 283 pp. Bodenheimer, F. S. 1928-29. Materialen zur Geschichie der Entomologie his Linne. Berlin (Junk) Volume 1, X + 498 pp; volume II. vi + 486 pp. Bristowc. W. S. 1967. The life & work of a great English naturalist. Joseph Dandridge (1664- 1746). Entomologist's Gazette 18: 73-89. Brierly, W. B. 1949. John Percival. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 161: 248-251. Britten, J. & Boulger, G. S. 1931. A biographical Index of deceased British '' border of y'^ wing is Sad; The inner wings are Sad w"" a border of full Orange, Seallopt with Sad, & fringed, y" under Side is paler Sad. Set with several Specks, w'" y'' Scallopt border. 10 Papilio fusca, alis externis oculo nigro insignitis. Taken y" beginning of July on the Grass in y'' Fields. The Eyes are reddish Sad; The whole head, horns body, & under wings Sad, & somewhat Shining, the upper wings are Sad, shaded & clouded with Orange about the middle of them, towards y^ Corners of each Stands a full black Spot, with 2 Small white Specks in it. The under side of both pairs of wings is the most vivid, that of y' upper wings is finely parted in wavy with a lighter colour near the ends. 11 Papilio fusca alis subtus 16 maculis oculatis notatis. Taken 4'" July by The River Side. The Head, horns, body & upper side of y" wings arc all Sad colour'd, these last are Set with many long hairs especially near y"' head, the I.eggs are browner. The under Side of y^' wings is marked with Eyes as in y'' Figure. Three in each upper wing. & Five in each under wing; In these Spots the Hrst ring is Orange, within that Black, & in the Center a white Speck. 12 Papilio fusca. alis internis oculatis 11) quodammodo accedens. Mouf. n"4. p.lfl."!. fig: Taken with y' last. This is darker all over than N" 10, The Orange appears not so much on y"' back of y*-' upper wings but more underneath, where it is almost all Orange, y"" under part of the under wings is mostly sadder. & y"^ Ends lighter, w"' ?> black Spots in each towards y'' bottom The Eyes are black w"' white Edges behind. & before just by the nose, brown; I have one just like this but only with two spots in each under wing. Genus Phalaenaceum The Notes of a Phalaena. whereby it seems chiefly to differ from a Papilio. speaking generally, are 1. To fly by night or after Sunset. 2. To sit with its wings dependent, or horizontal, & not erect. 3. To be heavyer & duller, at least to appear so by day. 4. To be more hairy, to defend y"' from y'' Injury of Night-dews. 5. To have weaker, & Slenderer horns, ending in a point, without a knob at y' End; & to be m some kinds plumose. 1 . Phalaena minor alis ex fusco & rubro mixtis, maculis Strammeis. Taken 2.^ July in y'' morning. The Head & Horns are light Tawny, the Eyes greenish, y'' body & tail light-Tawny, & Shining, y"' legs also, & Set w"' 2 or .^ stiff hairs about y' middle the wings underneath arc reddish Straw colour; above they are redder, y" upper wings have each 2 straw colour spot at y'^ outward Edge y'' under, two small lines each of y'' Same colour, they arc fringed w"" a light Tawny. 2 2. Phalaena alba parva graminea. The Grass Moth Taken 2^ July. They fly in meadows in the Evening in Numbers, keeping near y' ground making short flights, & lighting a Stalk, where they arc not easily seen because their wings lye close one on another along their body. The whole body & wings arc of a light ash Silvery colour & Shining, y^' Eyes arc black, from y'' Nose 2 long productions come forth, y" horns are Slender & blackish, y' legs arc long & Somewhat branched. CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 33 3. Phalaena alba parva graminca minor Taken at y"' Same time & place. The difference between these is only That this is smaller, & y" underwings deep ash, fringed with white, perhaps this is the male; 4. Phalaena minor splendens eapite fusco, alis ex purpurea & fusco mixtis Taken 23 July in y^ morning early, flying. The head is almost black, y^' Eyes Sad & shining, y'' horns of y" coulour of the head, y' body & tail light ash, with a Shew of purple. Shining, y^' legs Sad. shining and a little branched The wings underneath of y^ colour of y'' Tail, but Sadder towards y" outer Edges; Above, y^" upper wings are marbled with Sad & a pale purple, the inner wmgs light ash, fringed, & Shining. The Hgurc is a little less than the life. 5. Phalaena minor, alis ex fusco & cinerea mixtis Taken flying at y'^^ Same time. The head is ash colour, y'' Eyes black, y'^ body & tail y'" Same, the Eyes of the Rings on y'-' Tail are whitish, underneath all Shining ash, y" legs small & a little branched, y''' upper wings are ash, with 4 marbled darker Spots on each, v'^^ under wings Shining ash, & folded as are those of most Small Phalaenaea 6. Phalaena cinerea minor alis macula fusca obscure notatis. Taken w"* y"' last. The Eyes Sad, y" whole upper part is Sad ash & shining. & lighter underneath, marked as (2) w'^'' is y"' underside of y" upperwing. On y'^^ upperwing are 2 small dull Sad Spots, y" ash colourd Legs are long. & Somewhat branched. 7. Phalaena cinerea media dorso nudo. Taken in y'' evening about y' middle of July, It flyes very swift, & plays about y^' flowers. The Head & Thorax are thick & bluff, cover'd wth long ash colourd hair, except the midst of y' back w''' is naked Cover'd with an Orange shining Skin. I am in some doubt least I rub'd off y^' hair when 1 took it, but I caught 2 or 3 Since & when I look on them they are all so. The upper wings have 2 white spots like a (Y) & are Shadowed with dark upon ash as in the figure, under y^' Thorax is very long hair, y" legs are Sad. a little branchy; This kmd is not dorso nudo. M' Petiver calls it y" Gamma, from y^ form of y' Letter on its wings. ft 8. Phalaena media alis ex fusco fulvis. dorso nudo. Taken 23"' July in the Evenmg. It is such another as y'' last but not so big. w"" a naked back like y'. The head body & legs sad. y" Eyes black, y'' upper wings marked sad & light brown as in y' figure, the under wings all Sad; underneath it is all Sad, with a Shew of reddishncss, 9. Phalaena alba plumata Taken in y*^^ evening July 23"' Hying. The Eyes are black The Tail hath a Shew of greenishncss. about 1/2 an inch long. & Slender. The Legs are very long. & branched, y"^^ 2"" Joynt short, y" last to y'^ toes very long. Each of y^' wings is made of 2 perfect Feathers joyned together near their Origine, y'^ Antennae + an inch long. 10. Phalaena cinerea alis maculatis. cornubus plumatis. Taken 26 July in y'^ night by a Candle. It is all over dirty ash colour wth Sad colour marks on y^' upper wings as in y"^ lig'. y^ horns are brownish & appear thick, but in a good light are made like an herring bone or thin Set feather as (2) not directly oppt)site but Setting downwards ' The legs are long & a little branchy. 1 1 Phalaena minor cinerea alis marmoreis. Taken in y"" night by a Candle July 27 It is all ash colour except y^ upper wings w'^'' are marbled w"' Sad Strokes as in y*" fig', y^' Nose is long, y^' horns small & Short, y^' Legs long, & a littly branehy. y" whole under Side is Sad ash. 12. Phalaena pratensis Mouffeti 3'' p. 98. Taken about y'^ midst of June flying in a medow by day; The whole body. head, horns & legs are 34 L. JESSOP very black, the wings extend beyond the End of y" Tail, each of y'' upper wings is almost black, with long Scarlet Streaks where the black is in y'' picture, & 2 Scarlet Spots at the end of each wing. y^' inward Spot biggest, y' inward edges arc Scarlet also the underwings are wholly cherry colour'd. except y'' lodges, which are Sad. y'' under & upper Sides of both pair are alike. & they are all linely fringeil at v' Fnds. 13. Phalaena pratensis Mouffeti prima p-g. 97. Taken 29"' June in Coitu on a Stalk of Corn; there is no visible difference between y*" Male & Female; It is like y' last, but y'-' body & Tail is much bigger. The horns also grow thick towards y" Ends, the Sad of y'' wings Shines more greenish. & the Scarlet on y^ upper wings is disposed into 5 fair Spots. & in some 2 more on y" inner edges, the wings hang down. y° under wings are much less y" y'' upper ones, w'*' is not observed in Mouffcts hgure 14 Phalaena albo-fusca alis variegatis About y'' End of June I found an Aurelia hanging upon a Twig. «'•■ 1 put into a box. & when I came to look on it. it had produced y' Phalaena above named The whole body & under wings arc of a pale cloth colour, the upper wings are variegated, both wings underneath are of y'' Same cloth colour with y' body. The Aurelia w''' is drawn too little, was left thus & Seems to confirm y' Notion, y'' the head of y'' Catterpillar. is that end w'^*' is y" tail of y' Butterfly. l.>, Phalaena fusca alis 4 maculis insigni reniissi notatus Taken flymg about a Candle m the (iarden. m the beginning of July. It is all sad colour'd except the under wings which are ash. the upper wings are marked as in the hgure with a Sadder colour, the Eyes are near black & prominent; when it Stands, y" wings lye horizontal, and the under t)nes are quite covcr'd by the upper lb. Phalaena media grisea. alis maculis. cruciformibus notatis. oculis atris Taken y" last of June on a Ladyes clothes The head is Short & pointed, y'' Eyes prominent & very black, from each runs a black stroke to y' Shoulders, y^ horns are white at y'' Setting on. & after black, small & ending in a point. The back between y" head & wings is very hairy the upper wings are light grey with Cross like marks of sad w"'' are Edged with white, the Ends are Scallopt; y'' under wings are white, t^i Shine like Sattin. & scallopt also. & saddish colour'd at v' Ends, y'' under Sides of y" upper wings have some sad Spots on y"' The Tail is Large & very hairy, blunt at y" End like y' of y"' Papilio of a Silk worm. & grey, but whiter along the middle of its underside The Thighs are thick set with white hairs, y^ Legs black & white in Small alternate Spots. 17 Phalaena media straminea Taken in y' night by a Candle amongst Nettles Julv s"'. The whole is straw-colour'd. the Eyes black; The upper wings have faint reddish undulated Lines on y'". The under wings are as long & near as large as the upper, y'' Leggs are pretty large, strong. & brown; when it was stuck down to a box with a pin. it laid many very small, round, white Eggs, w'*" Stuck not to y' box. but rowTd away as they came out. w'^'' Eggs in ,^ hours time turned black. The Tail is darker colour'd. especially towards y*^ End. It Sits with its wings hanging down. 18 Phalaena alis ex fusco virescentibus maculis nigris notatis. Taken with the last; The head is ash colour ending in a long proboscis, v'^ Eyes sadder, v'' horns pretty long & ash color'd. The upper wings are greenish towards y'' upper Edges, towards v'^ ends turrow'd. w"' Small black specks at y^' ends of y" Furrows, y^' middle parts of y*" wings are of a shining purplish Sad. on y" upper part of w''' are two black spots a bigger & a lesser in each wing; The under wings are ash colour'd A: Shining; The Tail sad ash. the legs are long, ash eoL'. & somewhat branched. While it was stuck down with a pin it laid many small oblong white Eggs, w*^^'' CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 35 was performed by its thrusting out at y" End of its Tail a long white transparent Tube, w'^^'' it wriggled about & thrust out & drew in often. & now & then one might see the Egg come through it, w"'' it stuck to y^' box whereon it was fixt. 19 Phalaena lota alba. Taken in August upon y" Grass on Tunbridg Wells Common It is all over white; The Eyes only w^'' arc brown, y^' Legs very hairy. After it was stuck down with a pin, it excluded much brown woolly matter, wherein it laid its Eggs, w*^'' were there hatcht in 2 or 3 dayes. I fed them with young lettuce leaves, but they dyed in a week or 10 days, they were of the hairy kind of Cattcrpillers. 20 Phalaena major clcgans tricolor, Goedartij W. This sort I hatched, & fed y'' Catterpillar w''' they commonly call Shepheards Dogs The Eyes are sad brown, y' head & body, thick set with brown hair, just at y' juncture of y"^^ Neck & Sholders, Scarlet; The horns come out of a Small scarlet knob, they are white set with 2 rows of very line brown hairs, in manner of a feather. The ground of y' upper wings is pale Isabella marked with large sad intorted Spots, underneath y" Isabella is deeper; The under wings are pale Scarlet spotted with fair black spots, underneath y^' ground is pale Orange, The upper side of y'^ Tail is deep Orange, y' under Side sad except at y^ junctures of y' rings w"'' are deep Orange; The Legs are Strong, Sad, & a little branched, the upper part of y" Thighs' Scarlet. 21 Phalaena lo Pae;in mihi. Taken on y^' (iround y^ beginning of June. It is all hairy, much so about y" head, y"^ Eyes Sad, y" whole except y^ whitish undcrwing of a dirty sad colour, y' lind of y'^^ Tail thick & brushy. The uppcrsides of y"^ upper wings are marked w"' a Streight black stroke, & 2 round ones less black, & are Saddest towards the Ends where runs across them a lighter undulating Stroke. The Horns are long and linely lealherd. 1 suspect this to he the male of 2.'i, when it was taken it was on y" ground, & could not yet lly, being as I suppose newly gotten out of its Chrysalis, w''' perhaps was buried as was that of 25. 22 Phalaena aliquatenus purpurascens, uniolor .Splendens. Margarita, mihi. Taken y' beginning of June. The Eyes are black, the head not very big. y^' horns slender & pretty long, the whole Body Sad. y" upper Sides of the upper, & y^ Ends of y'^ upper Sides of the under wings are of a Shining Sad colour mixt with a faint purplish colour Towards y^' upper part of y'' under side of y^ upper wings, & towards the upper end of the underwings on y'' upper Side is a fine mother of pearl colour. 23 Phalaena cinerca, maculis fuscis variegatis magnis notata. Taken y'^^ beginning of June, The head is small &. sad colour'd, as is also y' Thorax, y^ horns small, the Tail ash colourd, y^ Wings also, upon y^ upper wings on the outward edge Stand 3 large Sad, mixt. Spots, y' upper two, when the wings are near, making an equilateral triangle, the fringe of y'' upper wings alternately black & white 24 Phalaena fulva striis tranversis undulatis notata, interdiu sub arborum foliis degens. Taken y^ middle of June, at which time if one Shake y'' boughs of bushes one may see y'" frequently fly out & make to y' underside of a Leaf of the next bush. The whole is Tawny yellow or buff. The uppcrsides of y^ wings are finely marked with waved Lines of white or Sadder buff running tranversely as far as about 2/3 of y" Length of the wing the rest to y" end is of a lighter buff, & more obscurelv undulated 36 L. JESSOP 25 Phalacna fusca c Chrysalide in terra supulta prorumpcns. About y' beginning of June I found in the new dug Earth several thiek sad brown ChrysaHs's, w'^^'' put up in a box one of them produeed this Phalaena about 14 days after The Eyes are black, y'^ head Short set on a thick hairy bluff Thorax. Cover'd with reddish Sad hairs, y' Tail thick. & hairy with rings of whitish at y^' annulary junctures. The horns long. fine. & brown, y' wings sad. with paler strokes on their Ribbs. y"' upper part of y' under wing in soine positions shining like peacocks feathers, but it had battcr'd it self in the box & was not curiously perfect; It had laid above 100 Round yellowish Eggs in the box, w''' it had finely fix'd by the glutinous matter about y"' in the quincunx order. & therefore is a female & by the by. One way of knowing the males from y" Females in this papilionaceous Species is by halchmg their Chrysalis's for the Female soon lays her Eggs whether she doth coire or not. tho' in this last case they are Steril. :6 Phalaena alis angulosis. I.inea tranversa alas in duas partes dividens l.inca acquinoctialis mihi Taken by M' Stoncstrcct at night by a Candle Set in his window at Carshalton, It is of a brownish Cream colour, y^ head & horns small, y' Eyes very black, the Ends of all the wings arc pink colour, a reddish brown fair Line crosses all the wings. & below it a Smaller sadder line undulates almost from end to end of y'^ other line, underneath it is Set w"' innumerable small Specks. & y^ aforemention'd 2 Lines are Sad appearing on this side also. 27 Phalacna 1 1 cognata si non eadem alis pulchre pictis. Taken about y' End of May in a Lane in East Field. It is a Small Moth, pale ash colour, the under wings Saddest, the ends of y"^ upper wings are prettily marked. 28 Phalaena pulchra fusca, alis tribus portiunculis undulatis, divisis. Taken about y'' middle of July in y^ Woodhouse amongst y"^ Loggs. The head us yellowish brown, y*^ Eyes paler. & Shining, the Lcggs (w'-'*' are long) & the edges of y*"' upper wings on y*^ under Side of a Reddish brown, y'' tail on the under Side Sadder. & as it were variegated. & Shining the upper part of the Thorax Tail. Sad. only y' end of the Tail reddish brown. The outer wings arc divided into .'^ portions next y'' head. & y'' Ends reddish Sad. that in y*^ midst between them brown edged w"' a waved white Line on each Side, the inner wings sad with white variegations, y^ ends of all y' wings have a Small white stroke cross them. 29 Phalaena alba cucullata. alis duobus maculis majoribus ornata Taken about y^ middle of July. The Eyes are small & black, the head, horns Thorax, & beginning of y^' 1****1 Sad mixt so as to make a triangle, a large round Spot of |**'*] is on each wing on y^ outer Edge, The wings otherwise are white, save that towards y' Ends they are more ash colour'd & blackish at y^' Tips, y' inner wings underneath have a Small black Speck in y' midst of each, y^ Leggs arc Speckled. .^0 Phalaena ochroleuca cucullata mmor This is y" Sort y' is bred of those animalls that eat y' feathers of the Skms ol y' Stuft birds, they fly about them all y" Summer in the Evening Scarabinum Genus 1 1. Scarabeus Terrestris nigro fuscus Taken 9"' September out of y'' ground as it was digging, it is all over almost black; somewhat CHARl.FSDLIBOIS' INSECT NOTES 37 inclining to Sad brown y^' head is flat almost of y" figure of an heart, furnished at y" mouth w"' small feelers, y'^^ Eyes small & black, below which Stand y'' two horns near 1/2 an inch long, & appear joynted if attentively lookt at, y'^^ Thorax is tlat & sharp edged, y" Edges somewhat turned up, y" Vaginae smooth, Shmmg & furrow'd lengthwaycs, the leggs towards y'' Ends are brownish, somewhat longer than is common y*^^ hinder ones especially, w'^'' are Slenderer also. 2 Idem major vaginis non Splendentibus I remember not where or when taken. This differs not from y' last, except y" the Vaginae are of a Sad dark colour, not so black as y" last, & Shine less, & y^' legs are wholly brown; This hath on y*^^ under Side of the Thorax, just before y" Setting y'^^ forelegs 2 small, round, brown, shining prominent knobs, w"''' y'^' other hath not. perhaps this may be the female, w'^^'' in most insects is y^ biggest. 3 3. Scarabeus terrcstris. corpore nigro oblongo tumido. Taken 10 September, digging in y'" Garden it came out of the Ground, it runs nimbly the figure is somewhat bigger than the life. It is all over of a dusky black, 4 large Feelers hang at y^ mouth, just under y" Forceps, y' 2 uppermost longest, & having each 3 joynts. y'^ 2 undermost Shorter & jointed also, all ending in knobs, above y"' Stands y'' forceps or pincers, w"' which it bites Strongly, y"^ Eyes arc Small, & black, under them the horns come out near an inch long each, Rings; underneath it is flatfish. & y'" Edges round turn downwards. & y''" Glass shews it to be finely punctate; The Legs are Sad brown. The wings are longer than y' Tail. & brownish all over. 1 1. Musca longa gracilis. 3 Striis nigris in dorso notata. aliis fusco-fulvis. Taken N"' May on y^' Flowers of panax Heracleum where many of y"' sit together ihrustmg down their long proboscis into y'' hollow of y^' Flowers. The head is round & Small y*^^ Eyes not easily discernable. being of y" Same sad colour with y" rest of y^' head. 2 small stiff horns come from one Original in y' fore part of it. y' body is ash on y"' back are 3 fair black Stripes, y^' tail & Legs sad & hairy, y^ wings long & brown, y" 2 parts under y"" wings common to all flyes are Small knobs set on a slender thred. 12. Musca media fusca. cauda 4 maculis nigris notata. Taken 19"' May upon y*^ Flowers of Panax Fleracleum; Its Eyes meet & are sad. y" nose Silverish. w"* 2 small hairy horns thereat, y' body is dark grey, y" Tail Lighter w"' 4 fair black Spots thereon, very hairy & underneath parted lengthwise with a broad black line, y" membranes under y"" wings are whitish. 13. Taken 2.'^"' May on Apricock Leaves. The Head & back is Sad, y'^ Eyes large almost meeting. The upper Side of y'^ Sharp pointed Tail black & shining, divided into 4 rings by white Circles, y'' belly yellow, at y"^ End black. The 4 Leggs before Yellowish, y^' hinder ones sad. with a brown Spot in the midst of y"^ 2 upper joints. The division between the 2 Eyes white. 14. Musca apiformis velox luteo et nigro varius. Cauda Scorpii. Taken L' June in y^' Lane near East Field. It is a very beautifull Fly. The head is large, y' Sad Shining Eyes meet atop, between them in the fore part of y' face are 2 large long yellow Spots parted by a black line y' 2 horns black, thick & indifferently long, y'' Thorax is black two small yellow lines run down y'" Length of it in the midst. & on each side are 4 irregular yellow Spots, 2 about y'' Setting on of y^" wing & twii below it between y' thorax & y^' Tail is set a Small oblong black body circled round with yellow, y' Tail hath .S Rings y' 3 Hrst have yellow rings upon black but they meet not in y'' midst, y^ lowest most yellow, a broad list of yellow on y^ Sides divides y" upper & under parts of y'-" Tail, under it is black & yellow in alternate rings, at y'' End of y'' Tail is a yellow Scorpion like Tail w''' it clapt up to y^ under part of y" Tail, armed w"' brown Claws, visible in a glass. 15. Musca pavonina gracilis splendens. Taken y" beginning of June & 17 July on Rasps. & Curran bushes. It shines green all over, the Eyes especially, between which is a white Spot. & just above that, come out 2 Short horns standing out two ways. The wings are long & large towards y'' End sad. & while at y'' very end; The Legs are brown; towards y'' Ends Sad. & pretty long. 16. Musca media tota viridis splendens. Taken y" first of June on y"^ Hedges in y"" Lane near East Field, where were many of them. It is all over green, except a Small white Stroke divides y'^ Eyes, y' horns are black & end in a hne hair, the Thighs are brown y" rest of y^' Legs black. CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 45 17. Musca fusca Nasicornis. Taken w"' y" last. The Eyes arc reddish brown, parted on the top with a pretty black division, a Streight brown shining horn goes streight out at y"' Nose under w^'' hangs a Streight black thickish tongue, y" true horns are brown. The Thorax is Sad, with 3 black stripes thereon, y"^^ appendent knob to y"' thorax between y"' Setting on of y'' wings, sad chesnut colour the Tail is chesnut, the Edges of the Rings black, & divided lengthwise by a black Stroke, y^ Tail is almost circular, flat, & sharp at y"" Edges, underneath brown in y"^^ middle, &. blackish at y' Edges the Legs arc Sad. The wings arc brownish Genus vespinum. The Wasp kind. I reduce those Insects of my own observation to this kind, that have 4 wings, & whose Tailes or hinder part of the body is joyned to y"' breast or chest by a Small thread, as Mouffet speaks page 42. Corpus vesparum medio pectori tenuissimo quodam Hlo alligatur; whether they have Stings or not; I. Vespa minor duobus aculeis, annulis in cauda flavis, macula insigni tlava in fronte notata. Vespa Brachmanica nobis. The Bramine Wasp. Taken y'-' beginning of June, The Head is large & black, as also are y"' Eyes, w''' are black, the Horns come out of y"' forehead, arising from two Originals. & seen in a Glass appear joynted, & grow bigger & bigger from y'' head to y'' Ends, the Mouth is furnished with a Serrate Forceps, one part of w"'' in Shutting goes over the other, & opens Sideways, & bites very hard; just above the mouth & between y'' lower part of the Eyes, is a fair yellow Spot rising above the Surface like a Studd. The Thorax or body is black; & that & the Tail are cover'd with a hard Shell, the Tail is composed of 7 or 8 Rings of yellow upon black, w''' go one under another when it Shrinks in its Tail, as the plates do in Armour; The Tail is Set to the body by a very Slender juncture, as in this kind is common. The legs arc yellow & indifferently long. It hath 4 Wings, long & Slender, the inner ones not above 1/2 the length of the outer ones. With much irritating at length it thrust out 2 Stings set at some little distance from each other, several times. I call it by this Name from y" Bramine Custome of making a yellow Spot in the foreheads of their Votaryes. 1. Vespa Brachmanica. 2 Vespa Brachmannica altera, ore aura micante The Golden mouth'd Bramine wasp. Taken \9 July on y' Currans. The Eyes are larger than the former & black, between them are 2 Small lines of yellow, where y'' horns come out. y^' bottom parts of y"' stands up against y' Face & arc yellow, & y' upper parts bend off forward & arc black. y° mouth Shines like Gold, under w''' plate is a small forceps; In y'' hinder part of the head, stand 3 Small Shining knobs triangular-wise. Scarce visible without a little Assistance from a Glass. The Thorax is all black on both Sides except 4 yellow spots next y' head; The Tail is slenderly Set on made of 6 yellow rings set upon black, w"'' appear but obscurely underneath. The Thighs arc black, y" rest of the Legs yellow, except y'' Toes, w^ are black, the 4 wings are Sad transparent, & have a Shew of rainbow colours on them 3, Vespa minor tota nigra The small black wasp. Taken 19 July, It is all black, except a Small Silver plate at y*^^ mouth; & y" wings, w''' have a Saddish tincture on y"', the inner ones are much less y" y'^ outer ones. 4. Vespa longa. pectore & dorso nigris, cauda & dorso macula alba notatis, cornubus trcmulis in medio albis. Taken in y" beginning of June on y*^^ flowers of Tithymalus Tingitanus lunato fl. Moris. The head. 46 L- JESSOP Eyes. & Thorax are black, except one w"' Spot between y"' Setting on of y'' wings, on y'" back. The Horns are more y" 1/2 an inch long, curled at y" Ends, & black except a portion of w"' in y" middle, trembling incessantly when it goes; The Tail hangs on by a Slender thread, the first ring black, y'' 2 next Orange, y" remainder black, w"' a white spot at y^' End; when lirst taken, by thrusting the Tail towards the Head, came out a black point or Sting from y' middle of y" under part of y"' Tail; The under part of the body is colour'd like y" upper, but y' Tail is flatter, with a ridge in y"' midst of y'' rings running lengthways; The Legs are long, y"^ first joynts black, then lighter orange, then black. then brown to v' Toes. Vide N" 7 5 Vespa longa pectore & dorso nigris, minor absque aculis albis. Taken on y" Same flowers & at the same time with the last. The head Horns & Thorax arc black the Tail long. & Slenderer than y"' last, made of 7 rings of w'*' y"' hrst is black, the .1 middle ones Orange. & y' 3 at y' end black, the leggs are browner than the former, it hath not the Spot on y^' back & Tail. & the Horns curie not so. The figure is a little bigger than y"' life & the Tail too thick. 6. Vespa nigra minor gracilis, eauda in 2 Setis aculcum inscrvicntibus desinentc. cornubus praelongis tremulis Taken w"' y' last; It is all black, save y' orange thighs; when it goes y' horns tremble exceeding fast, feeling what is in y'' way; The outward edge of y" bigger wings hath a Small Spot on it. a long Sting or point comes out under the tail about y'' midst, w'''' when y'' Tail lyes strcight remains between y"' 2 Setae in w"" the Tail ends, w''' Seem a guard to it. & when y"' Insect pushes w"' it. in bends y" Tail downward & towards y' head, & thrusts the said sting strongly towards y'' head, as that N" 4 also doth. 7 Vespa oblonga maxima pecore & dorso nigris. cauda 4 & dorso tribus albis maculis notatis.cornubus tremulis. in medio albo notatis Taken 14 September. It is very like N" 4 but 3 or 4 times as bigg. & besides y^' Spot which that hath in y'' middle of y" back, this hath one at y" Setting on of each of y' bigger wings; y'' white Spot at y'' end of y" Tail is here distinguish into 4. one on each of y" 4 last rings, in y" other y'' Tail is flatter, in this very turgid, opening on each Side, which apperture or Slitt is supplyed by a thin yellow Skin, in all other things this is like y'. Vespa Cauda corpori Hrmius adhaerente 9. Vespa nigricans graculis N" 6 similis ast major, cauda absq Setis. Taken 25''' May on y" Flowers of Panax Heracleum. It is every way like N" 6 but bigger. & hath not the Sting, or Setae w"'' that hath; perhaps it is y" female to that. 10. Eadem fronte flava. Taken in y'' Lane by East Field. June V . This differs in nothing from y'' last but in y'' Square yellow Spot it hath between y" Eyes. & y" finely jointed horns are yellowish before, & black behind. Apinum Genus Bombylius Dni Purchas. Viviparus. He describes it p. IKS. & gives an Anatomical account of it. & also of its being viviparous p. 191 . Purchas's Theater of political flying Insects Anno lfi.S7. In y' figure y' first white ring is yellow in y'' Bee y^' w"' ring in y"' midst of the Tail is yellow also. Ji. the end white. The figure is a little loo big. I took one of this sort May 10"' three times as big. 2. Apis fusca Cauda glabra. Taken upon Poppy flowers 17"' July. It is all of a dark Sad colour, y" face & back, thick set with line CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 47 Brownish hairs, the horns short & strcight, y" Tail Smooth & Shining, under w'^'' was much yellow matter like bee bread, y" wings brownish, w"' a deeper brown Stroke on y"-' outward Edge of each of y'^ bigger wings near the End, y"' Legs middling; Just at y" Setting on y' wings, on each Side is a remarkable small round black shining knob. 3. Apis minor fulva, alis praelongis, Iridis modo splendentibus I have forgot when & where taken, & it is described dead. The head, horns, & middle of y'' back is black. The Tail on both Sides Orange, & y*" Legs also except y'^ last Joints w'^ are speckt with black All 4 wings are very large & much longer than the Tail, y*" outward Edge of y'= upper marked with a black Stroke, They shine fmely with Rainbow colours. 4. Apis gloriosa Taken on Cherry Leaves, May 24 The whole forepart & Legs is of a beautifuU bluish green; & y' Tail especially y" upper part shining copper, on the Sides changeable into yellow, gold & green, all foraminulous. when urged it puts forth a long flexible Sting. The wings are sad Genus Cimicinum. 1. Cimex subviridis variegatus, odorcm gravem spirans. Taken in the beginning of June; It moves slowly, when it stands still the head is raised like y' of a Frog, & if laid on its back, it can hardly recover its feet, which after much Struggling it does by turning over its head. It smells very Strong, & very ill; & when dead turns all black, & shrinks up to meer Skin. The head is like a Tortoises; y" two Small Eyes arc black; y' horns have three Joints, white at y"-' Junctures, elsewhere blackish; The Thorax & Tail greenish; it hath neither Wings nor Vaginae. Round y'' Skirt of y"' Tail part on both Sides it is marked with little V's The middle is regularly mark'd wth Spots the 4 largest & middlemost are copper colour'd & in bas-relieve. y'' others black & not raised, the belly is green with a black line running cross its length. The legs are greenish also, but blackish at y^ Ends. Taken at Tunbridgc Wells 1695 1. Bombylius niger, eauda in acumen aurantii coloris desinente Taken among y'' Corn upon y' flowers of Panax Coloni Aug. 3. The figure is too long; it is all over black except the 3 last Rings of y' Tail, w'-'' are Orange, being thick set with hairs of y' colour, deeper above, & more remiss underneath; A shining black Small knob on each Side of y" Thorax at y' Setting on of y" wings, y"' legs arc Strong & hairy 2. Phalaena Splendens ex aureo-fulva Taken flying in y" day 5 August, It is all of one light-brown colour Shining as if varnisht with a dilute gold colour; The Eyes are round, prominent & very black, y'"' horns short & Slender; It hath a particular way of flying, y*" wings moving fluttering, & by turns quicker & slower. 3. Papilio alba, alis maculatis corpore nigro. Taken 12"' Aug. flying, y' middle of y*^ Thorax black, as is y'' upper part of y"' Tail, y^' Eyes very black & prominent, round y" Thorax &. about y^' head, is set w"' w"' hair, y*^ under part of y'^ Tail & y" legs cover'd with a mealy whiteness, y"^ horns black tipt at y'"' ends with white, y'"' wings on y" upper sides white with black as in y'' flgure. y" ribs of y' wings blackish, y' under wings on y" under Side brimstone y'^ ribs large & blackish, y^ under Side of y' upper wings w'" except y'^ Ends, w*^*" are also brimstone colour'd. 4. Papilio minor alis ex fulvo fuscis, macula nigra in media alba insignitis. Taken 12 Aug. on y" Common, y*^ upper wings are pale orange for y'' most part, except round y" Edges & in y" middle where they are Sad, y' under wings arc only orange in y' middle, & 48 L. JESSOP underneath all Sad. Sadder towards y'' Setting on. & y^' lower 1/2 lighter, y'' upper wings have each towards y"" End. a fair black spot wth a Small white Spot in y" midst of it, y' whole body head & horns very Sad. y'' horns have not a knob set on y' End, but near y° End grow thicker only. 5. Scarabeus major terrestris ater splendens vaginis Striatis. Taken on y'' Common 13"' August creeping in y^' paths There arc 2 Sorts, a less w*^"* I take to be y" female, y' under part of w'*" is purple Shining as Steel, y" bigger Shining green, w*^^'' I suppose to be y' male, y'^ first pair of Legs is set on y'^ Thorax, y'^^ Second on y' part of y" tail next y' Thorax. & y^' S** pair in y^' midst of y" Tail, w"' Strong thighs. Notes upon Insects &c. 1692 & \695 Their Genus See under 1. Musca corpore & alis fuscis. cauda in longum acumen desinente, capite parvo, 4 bicorni. proboscidi recto, pedibus longis pilosis, this is a dull heavy fly taken 28 May. on y'' Currans. 2. Eruca parva viridis striatus Geometer, this is that w'^ eats up y"^ Filbeard leaves, it hath 3 pair of feet before. & only one pair behind, besides those holders at y' tail, by which it will Stand erect & reach out its whole body to lay hold on what is in its reach, v^' head is almost transparent; fine small whitish Striae run along y' length of y" back; taken off y" Filberds 28 May. 3. Eruca viridis major se contorqucns &c. taken off y' grass in the common, its head is green, hath 3 pair of feet before. 4 pair in y' middle. & y" 2 holders at y' Taile. on each Side just above y'^ insertion of y"^ feet runs a pale pretty broad yellow stripe the whole length of y^' body, along y'' upper part of this yellow stripe runs a fine line of white Ai on \' top of y^' white a broader line of Cinamon colour, with white Spots in it. w''^ Spots stand one in y" midst of each ring; On each side of y"^ back runs one other Small pale yellow stripe y^' length of its body, in the middle of y^ back at y' insertion of one ring into another is a Small spot of Cinamon colour, about fi or 7 in all. those rings towards y" head & taile having none; when it creeps the body seems to move within y^' Skins before y"^^ Skin, y^' rings are inserted almost Scalewise. when 'tis disturbed it roals it self round, falls on one Side. & puts y^' Taile over y"^ head by way of security. I fed it with Aprccock leaves. 3. Eruca major fusca eaudii protubcrante. found under y" Coping of a brick wall, it seemed near its change, (lost) vide 66 4. Scarabeus medius fuscus Saltans, when taken it counterfeits its Self dead. A; when & 67 turned on its back it will leap up. by a Spring in the neck; Mr Doody calls it y" Castanet Fly, from y' Snap it makes, w" it Springs. 1. Adde to N" 1. y'^ Taile is bifurcate if narrowly viewed, it hath 3 black Stripes on the back, y^ outward Edges of y" wings near y' insertion are brown, y'^ legs & back arc furnished with small fine hairs, y"' back is gibbous, y'' head hangs lower y" it, y' Eyes are larger & rather more chesnut cold than y^ rest of y^' head. 5. Musca flava corpore producto. capite. & dorso nigro. bicorni. taken .^ or 6 June, y" colour is a vivid orange yellow, y^' 4 wings arc of y" Same colour only towards y'' Ends more transparent & y" outward Edges of them black almost to y'' End. y" 2 under wings arc not black at all. y'' leggs are yellow too. only y"^ lower parts spotted black, y' 2 horns arise not out of y*" Same origine as in some others, 2 small yellow threds hang from y'" mouth y'' horns stand as in (ioats. y'' very point of y^ Taile is black. It is but a dull fly, or Bee rather 6. Scarabeus minor rotundus griseus macula nigra in dorso & altero in Cauda notatus, proboscidi producto aniennis pra["***] I took it June l.'i on Verbascum. it is grey with exceeding little Spots, on y'' back a fair round black Spot appears. & another near y*" Tail, it is about y*" bigness of a common lady Cow they were in Coitu. the Male it Female are perfectly alike. ( H ARl.ES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 49 7 Eruca cicgantissima, flavjs & nigris maculis notata, iracundus The ground of their body is a pale blewish white, the body is eomposed of 12 or 13 rings, on y'' top of the back, & in y"" middle of each ring IS a large yellow spot, upon w'^'' yellow Spot are 4 small black spots set in a Square, on each side of y" body along its length are smaller yellow spots one on each ring, upon & about w'^'' are many bla spots of several figures & bignesses, y" head is bleak yellow spotted wth very small black spotts, it hath 3 pair of Feet before, 4 pair in y^' middle & y" 2 holders at y' Tail, it feeds upon y" leaves of Verbascum, I found many of them about y' End of June but not on any other plant, when touched it Springs & jerks like a ttsh newly out of y'' water, & throws it body round Securing its head with its tail, it is a little hairy, y'^^ hairs are long but thin set. 8. Eruca striata quasi oeulata, about 1 1/2 inch when at biggest Somewhat hairy, y^' head is blewish with 2 black spots seated in y"^^ place of Eyes, a white line runs y'' length of it just in y" midst of y' back, on each Side are slender Stripes of orange blew & Sad, y" blew y^ broadest, y' rings of y'' body are longer & flatter, it hath 3 legs before 4 in y' midst & 2 holders, I fed it with Aprecock leaves, & after 20 dayes in y*^ middle of June it Spun a long hne white Silk web. See after ') Musca sanguisuga, y''" Horse fly, y" Eyes arc very like an Opal in y*^ fine changeableness of its colours, y" head very wide, extending on each side beyond y" Sholders, y'^ wings grey, y" proboscis blunt & flat at y" end as a leeches mouth 1(1. Musca minima viridis, saltans alis praelongis, this is y" production, y' appears upon y"" backsides ol leaves & stalks in Clusters like Lice, it hath 2 very small black Eyes, 2 long horns & 4 wings, y' outermost are as long again as y'' body, y'^ 2 innermost much less, it tlyes hovering in the Evening, & when it lights if touched skips as a Grasshopper a great Length, probably it is necessary it Should be thus furnished to throw it self into y'^ Air when it is about to fly, y'" length of y"^^ wings hindering its more immediate flight from y"' place where it stands. 11. Phalaena media ex albo & nigro varia, alis ultrinquc eodem more notatis, y" head & Shoulders are yellow w'*" bla Spots, y" Eyes black, y^' rings of y'' tail end in a yellow Circle going round it, y"^ legs are branch[ed] & ash colour'd Shining, y" antennae more than 1/2 an inch long Sordid, y'^ wings are finely marked with black or near it, y' ground w'", all four wings are nearly alike. 12. Phalaena tota alba plumata, y" body is slender, about 1/2 an inch long, y'^ legs very long & branched, y'' wings each are composed of 2 perfect feathers joyned together near their Origine, y" eyes very Small & black, y'^^ antennae about 1/8 of an inch long. 13. Phalaena fulva 14. Vespa minor duobus aculcis, annulis flavis in eauda, insigni macula flava in fronte notata. Taken y" beginning of June, The body is black & y' tail also but divided in rings w"*" go one under another when it Shrinks in y"' tail (y'' whole body being cover'd not w"' a thin Skin but a hard Shell) as in y' joints of armour y'' rings are bright yellow, y' body is set to y"' tail by a very small juncture as in wasps & hornets, y'' head is large as are the Ey's which are black, y'' horns come out of y" forehead & Set before y" Eyes, arising from 2 originals, seen in a glass are jointed, but smooth, & grow bigger to y" End, just above y'" mouth & between y'' lower part of the Eyes is a fair yellow Spot, like a Stud, y' mouth is like a Lobsters Claws opening Sideways & one going over the other, so y' it Seems to be an Insect of prey in armour, y'' legs are yellow and indifferently long, with much irritating at length it thrust out 2 Stings at a distance from each other, several times, & bites hard with its serrate Jaws, y"' hgure is not slender enough, & the wings to long. Its 4 wings are long & Slender, y" under one but 1/2 the length of y" upper ones. l.S. Cimcx sylvestris subviridis variegatus odorem gravem Spirans, taken y" beginning of June, it smells very ill & very Strong, round y"' Skirt of y*" back marked with little u's on both its sides, y' 4 middle most of y" Spots on y" back appear like copper bullae y" belly is green a line of blackish running through y'' midst of it from y"" tail, it has neither wings nor Vaginae, when it Stands Still y" head is raised like a frog, & when turned on y"' back, it can hardly raise its self up, & then it turns 50 L. JESSOP over its head, y" legs are of y'' colour of y" body, but more blackish towards y" end. y^' head like a Tortoise, w"" 2 Small black Eys. y'^ horns are joynted w"" 3 joynts. white at y' junctures elsewhere blackish, it moves not fast. 16. Musca pavonina gracilis Splcndens. it Shines green all over the Fycs especially between which is a white spot. & just above that comes out two horns Short & standing two wayes. the legs are brown, towards y° Ends Sad. & pretty long; taken beginning of June & 17 July on currans on y'' Rasps, y'" wings are long & lar[ger?] towards y" End Sad. & y' very End. 17. Scarabeus minor oblongus niger cauda aculeata. gibbosus. Taken y'' beginning of June, when laid on a Table it leaps & jerks very often, the Vaginae are deep Sad or blackish. & to the Eye appear Smooth, but by the Glass have innumerable small puncta all over them, y'' whole Tail is deep Orange, made up of .'i rings inserted one under another Scale wise. & in y'' glass thick Set with down, v'' Tail ends in a long point like a Sting y^ part between y'" head & wings is \° Same Orange colour v'' head black like y" Vaginae, w^'' it goes hanging down perpendicularly, by the reason y'' back rises high. & gibbous y' horns are Small & appear joynted in y^ glass, the head is Set on to y' Edge of y" Neck slenderly, a black shell covers y"^ breast on each Side from under w^'' y' Tail comes out y'' hinder legs are Set on y*^ Edge of this Shell, with Strong thighs. & are pretty long, by which it leaps, the legs are of y' Same Sad colour with y' Vaginae, taken upon Panax Heracleum. 18. Apis longa Subtus flavescens. Taken at \° Same time & place with y'' last y^' black Eyes arc large taking up almost all y' head. & in y' Glass appear as a flyes pitted, y'' 2 bla indifferently long horns appear jointed 1/2 way also, y'^ wings are 4 the 2 biggest lye over y"^ lesser, w^'' biggest reach beyond y^ tail y' upper part of y' tail is black except where one ring of yellow crosses it. y° legs arc long, y' upper part of w'^'' are bla. y"^ foremost least, y' middle ones more, y'' hindermost most the whole under part of y" Insect is of a pale Yellow, between y'' Eyes hangs down a yellow part in w''' is y'' forceps. & behind it a Strange apparatus of parts for y'^ Service of y" mouth. 18. A rude draught of y"^ apparatus of y'^ foremention'd Bees mouth. 1 y'^ forceps 2 wipers 3 a kind of trifid tongue under w'^'' Seems to lye the Gula. 19. Scarabeus minor oblongus obscure viridis, & remisse splendens. Taken at y'' Same time & place with y" last It is of y" duller green shiners, y' 2 feelers have knobs at y'^ Ends, & in y" glass appear to have 3 joints y"^, the horns are jointed to y' naked Eye, the whole body & vaginae arc of one colour, y' toes end as flyes. & appear a little white. 20. Vcspa pectorc & dorso nigro. cauda & dorso macula alba notatis. cornubus etiam in medio albis. The head Eyes & body is black, save y' in y"" midst of y^' back between the Setting on y'' wings is a white Spot, y' horns are more than 1/2 an inch in length curled at y'' ends, all black except in y*" midst of each horn is a portion of w'", y" Tail is set on by a Slender black thred. & is black toy'' first ring, y'' Second & third ring are Orange colour. & y" remainder to the End is black save a white Spot at y*^ End. the legs are long y' first joints black, then comes a lighter orange, y" bla. y" brown to y''" toes, when it goes y" horns move incessantly, taken y' beginning of June on y"^ Tithymalus Tingit. lunato flore Mons. when first taken it thrust its tail towards y'' head & from y" under part of y" Tail about y'' middle not y" End came out a long black point or Sting, but it Seemed black, y'' under part of the body is in coulour like y' upper, but y' tail is flatter under neath, with a Ridge running in the midst of y"" rings length wayes 21 . Scarabeus minor oblongus fuscus lineis flavis notatus. Taken 28"" May, its length is about 3/4 of an inch, y*^ head large, dusky, w"' a bright yellow ring round between y'-' fore pan of y' neck & y*^ Eyes, y"-' 2 homes about .3/4 of an inch long, orange near y' head, & growing darker to y" End, y' t H ARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 5 1 Vaginae dusky prettily marked with yellow thus, the legs dusky orange, y' hinder ones very long, w"' Stronger thighs as if designed for leaping, tho, I did not see it leap. 22. Scarabeus medius fuscus corpore fulvo. taken 2X May it's very common about Curran's y^' head is flattish w"' Small blaek eyes, y'' horns arc 1/2 an inch long joynted all y'' way, & bending downward towards y'^^ Ends, at ly"] mouth are set four small Short feelers y*" 2 outer ones longest w^'' 2 continually tremble, between y' head & the setting on of y" wing is a dark orange colour'd plate y'^^ edges of w'^'' turn up a little, y'' Vaginae dark musk colourd, y'' wings under but a little longer than their cases, y' thighs orange, the rest of the legs musk, the latter joynts to y*" toes jointed & indented on each side y" body 23. Idem fulvus. taken y*" Same time y" Same with y*" former only all yellow tawny, except y"^ horns & the joints of y*-* Legs, it hath a Small black stroke on y^' forehead a little above y'' Eyes, w" touched I****] from y*" place where it stood, it hath a Sharp pair of forceps w"' which it bites at everything w" taken. Scarabeus Maialis minor, taken at y'' Same time. It is just like y' may beetles save y' it wants |****] Sides, y'^ male is the less & rounder bodyed, the female bigger & flatter [****] between y*" head & wings is in y" male more purple, & in the female [****] at y" End of May when y" greater sort go out, & eat young [****) are only trifid [**•*] taken y"" Same time eating Curran Leaves, y" head black circled |****] but one next y*" tail yellowish, y*^ rest of the body greenish, & almost [ ] small black spots are set on each ring & a larger black spot in y" midst |****| it hath a few very short small hairs on y'^ body, it moves not as the [****] a worm, it hath .3 pairs of Legs before, 6 pair beyond y" & the 2 holders at y"' tail [**'*| it throws its body over its head standing on it 6 forefeet like y^ Tumblers (*••*] l & 1/2 inch in Length, the fault in this picture is 1 pair of Legs too much, & too many rings, the last pair of Legs being set on y*^ next ring but one to y' tail this is y" better draught, only y*" legs are too long. 26. An Scarabeus ex minimis totus viridis imperfectus, taken y" Same time about 1/6 of an inch, with very Small dark colour'd Eyes, long horns, & pretty long legs, imperfect wing stick upon y' back about 1/2 way its length, tis nimble, qu" if of kin to y" Cuckow spit this is somew' bigger y" the Life 27. Eadem alba, just y' Same only w'^ w"" a faint shew of greenish upon it, phaps not so ripe 28. Scarabeus ex minimis chalybis colore & Splendore, hypocritica, vel ex motu se mortuum fingens taken 26 May, it retires into y" hollow recesses of Flowers. Dandelion, Hyacinth. Angl. &c y'' Vagina are like Steel in colour & shining, the wings w" extended near as long again as y" Vaginae, transparent, & as they are differently objected to y" light have a faint Shew of rain bow colours, two small antennae w"' knobbs at y" Ends, w" toucht it falls out of y'' flower & counterfeits its Self dead. 29. Vermiculus mihi punctum Saliens dictus. 26 May extending a Sheet of white paper near y" hot beds, one may see Small black animals light on it, about the bignesses of these points which run indifferently fast, if disturbed they Skip out of sight, viewed by a glass they appear worms annular rings forming y' length, & at y'^^ head 2 horns feelers, they move with 6 legs in y' middle of y" body or K they were too Small tV: nimble for observation 2S. Musca maxima quadripennis fulva, Labella taken 28 May on y" Rasps, this is y" 4th in Mouffet p. 66. in his description y' wings are Said to be argentei coloris, but they are w" held on one Side aurei coloris otherwise transparent. 29. Labella ex minimus, an 4a Mouffeti, taken y' Same time. If it be Mouffcts his description & ^ figure are not exact. It is blew y' head large & Eys prominent a broad bar of black cross y'' top of y' head from Eye to Eye, 3 bars of bla. run lengthways from y"^ head to y*^^ Setting on of y" wings the middlemost y' broadest, y' tail is divided into 6 or 7 joynts markt black as in y"' figure, on y' upper 52 L. JESSOP side of the legs a bla slender stripe runs lengthwise, y" fibers of y" wing cross each other at right angles. 30. Centipes lulus, about y' root of Tulips between y^ Coats of y^ rotten ones are many of | ' * * * | Sizes. I am of opinion y' they are hatcht there of y' Eggs deposited by y-^ |*'**1 y' least are whitest, they have 2 joynted antennae, their feet end in Sharp points 31. Scarabeus ex minimis, fuscus progressum analis imitans [****] it light on my book as 1 was reading in y' Garden, 32. Scarabeus ex minimis capite Chalybcata ex fulvo fuscus pedibus fulvis agilis taken 27' May digging it came out of y" ground, y'' head & sholders shine like Steel, it hath 2 long horns jointed with long joints scarce to be Seen well but by a glass & 4 feelers about y" mouth, y^' legs indifferently long, & pale [****] body almost black, y" vaginae towards y' Sholders fulvous towards y' tail blackish Shining Steely, y' Vaginae appear Striate in a glass it runs very nimbly, 32. figure as it appears by a Glass 33. a Small fly in y" Gnat Shape but without featherd antennae, y' head almost all taken up by y" Eyes, vi"'' are like a Common flyes. a Slender Neck, y"' back gibbose. & Elegantly marked with 4 black Spotts. of w'''' this is y"' better figure, y" body dark colour'd y" legs greenish. & long this hgure is 6 times bigger than y^ life, this is to be referr'd to y^ brown long legs in y" meadows. & not to y^ Gnats, they are to be found on y" Cieling of y^ Necessary house. Musca Culiciformis dorso quatuor maculis notato. 34. Vespa peetore & dorso nigro. minor, sine maculis. Taken on y" Same Tithymale at the same time, the difference between these is, this wants y" Spot of white on y^' back. & taile, & y'' white on y' horns, which are longer & not curled at y"' Ends, y'' legs are browner, perhaps this is y"' Male, v,"" is the lesser in many insects. 35. Vespa minor gracilis nigra cauda in duobus seris, aculeum inser\'ientib. desinente, cornubus praelongis tremulis. Taken at y"' Same time on y'' Same Tithymale; It is all black, except y' thighs w'-'' are Orange, when it goes y" horns by w"'' it feels are moved trembling exceeding fast, there is a Small Spot on y" Edge of each of the bigger wings, a long kind of Sting comes out from near y'' middle of y*" tail underneath, w'^'' when the tail lyes Streight remains between y^ 2 Setae in w' the tail Ends, w'"" Seem made for a Guard to it, & when y' Insect pushes with it, it bends its tail inwards, & y" thrusts it very Strongly, as one may feel with a pin. See N" 2(1 36. Musca Vespoides nigra, capite magno, ore albo, cornuorum etiam extrcmitatibus albis. Taken y' beginning of June on the Rasp bushes, y'' head wth y'' Eyes is large, y' 4 wings dusky, y"' whole black, except y^' mouth, ends of y'' horns, which are white & two white Spots on each side under y' wings at y'' juncture of y' taile & chest, this moves as y^' last with its horns tho' not so quick, & would be nearer of kin but y' y" body is set on to y'^ tail more Strongly, & not by so Slender a thread. 37. Musca Splendens cauda compressa, alls ex fulvo fuscis. Taken in y"' midst of June upon y"' flowers of Podograria. The head is wholly taken up by the Eyes w"'' meet together, & shine greenish, & appear finely pitted in a glass, 2 Small horns come out before under w''' is a Small black shining Spot, y'' body is vivid green Shining & in a glass appears full of brown hairs, y' tail is a brown green Shining, appearing to be full of brown down in y'' glass, it Spreads broad toward y*^ End, & comes off round & hath .S rings, underneath tis flattish. & y"' edges round turn down & in a glass looks finely punctated, y" legs are Sad brown, y' wings are longer y" y^ tail. & brownish all over 38. Musca fulva cauda villosa. alls in medio parva macula insignitis. Taken at y^' Same time & place. The Eyes Stand prominent on each Side y' head of a Sad colour, w"' 2 paler edgings on y'' (HARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 53 inside, or before y"^ face, in y"-' middle of w"'' between y" Eyes is a reddish Spot, y'' body is indifferently large, & somewhat gibbous, of a Sad grey mixt eolour inclining to brown, the Tail is very thick Set w"' fine brown long hairs, as are the legs, & all y'-' under part of y' body. The wings are pretty large, & longer than the body, with a Small Sad or brown Speck in y" midst of each. 39. Musca oblonga, cauda et alis nigrofulvis ore argenteo. Taken at y*" Same time & place. They Eyes take up the whole head, in y' midst of y"" come out 2 blunt orange colour'd horns arising from a black original, y^' mouth & parts under the horns arc white & Shine like Silver, the body is a dark Shining copper colour, down y" length of y'-" tail runs a broad black line, y'' End of y^ tail above & underneath is Sad & shining, & at y" End underneath stuck a flat substance like wax, y'' rest of y" under part of y*^^ tail to y' body is yellowish white, the legs are all black, pretty long & thick, y"" inside of y'^ toes white y"^ wings lye over on another as it Stands, & are of a blackish brown, shaded darker about y'' middle 40. Musca chalybeata, corpore caeruleo cauda viridi, Splendentibus, capite fusco. vide 4.S Taken at y'= Same time & place with y" last the head is taken up wholly with y" Eyes w''' are Sad y^ nose or mouth whitish y'' 2 little horns black, y" body shines lively like Steel, & y" Tail is shining green, & somewhat downy, y' legs are black, & not long. 41. Musca fusca, alis griseis, compressa lata, cauda lata obtusa. Taken at y'" Same time & place. The head is dark, y" Eyes also about y"' on the back sides is a line of white y" body is Sad, y'' Tail dark grey w'" Some more whitishness about y"' Setting on than towards y' End w"'' is blunt & Squarish, under y'' Tail next y*^^ body tis yellow qu'' if y" colour or some waxy foreign matter Stuck there for y'' flyes use, the legs are Small & black, y'' wings pretty broad, longer than the Tail, & when y" fly sits they hang down a little on each Side, they are speckled Sad upon white y' Sad thicker in two cross barrs on each wing. 42. Scarabeus fulvus oblongus, pedibus & Cornubus praelongis. Taken on a Road about y' middle of June. The head is longish, y' Eyes on each side small & black between w'^^'' a furrow lyes on y' top of y'' head below y'^ Eyes come out 2 long horns bending round towards y"' Ends Sad orage towards y' head & growing Sadder upwards jointed all y' way, & growing more whitish at y' End, y'= Scapula or body part is cloth colour & unequall, y" tail part is square at y" Setting on & broad & tapers to y'" End where it is blunt the Vaginae are pale Chesnut smooth & Shining, the whole under part is cloth colour & Shining except at y"" End of y" tail, where it is Sad Orange, as are the legs except the joints of y"' four formost & y"" thighs of the hindmost, they are long & end in one long toe at y^' end of each of w'*" are two crooked Claws. 43. Phalaena media grisea, alis maculis cruciformibus notatis, oculis atris. Taken at the End of June on a Ladyes clothes. The head is short & pointed y'= Eyes prominent & very black, from each runs a black stroke to the sholders, y" horns are white at y" Setting on, & after black. Small, & ending in a point, y"" back between y'' head & wings is very hairy, y"' wings are light grey with Cross like marks of sad which are edged with white, y' Ends are Scallopt, y' under wings are white & Shine like Sattin, & Scallopt also, & Sadish at y" Ends, y" under Side of y" upper wings, have Some Sad Spots on y"\ y' tail is large & very hairy, blunt at y'= End like y' of y"' papilio of a Silk worm, & grey, but whiter along the middle of its underside, y' thighs are thick set with white hairs, the legs black & white in small alternate spots. 44. Apis ex sordido virescens alis supernis variegatis, infernis ex albo transparentibus. Taken y'' middle of June, the head is flat faced w'^'out horns, or other furniture but what is under y' beak at y" mouth, 2 is y'' appearance the face makes in a Glass, out of y'^^ mouth come three Setae, it looks of a greenish Sad colour, y"' upper part of the body & tail is black except just at y'' neck where a pale or whitish Circle goes round it y' edges of y' Tail are fueillemort, the 2 upper wings w" are longer than the body are Sad with 2 whitish marks on the outer edge as in 3 the 2 under wings are whitish & transparent, y" leggs are greenish, & black points at y" Joints, prettily inserted as in 4. The Glass discovers Short Setae at the End of the Tail. 54 L. JESSOP 45. Eaiiem (cum 40) tota viridis this differs in nothing but that is wholly green without any blew as that (40) hath, perhaps the diversity of Sex in y" Same fly. Taken middle of June. 46. Taken y' Middle of June, This is very Near of kin to n° 39. The difference. The head of this is a little rounder, y' back shines more blackish, the tail is slenderer & the whole is of one colour. & the wings shine more with rainbow colours I suspect it the male to .^9. because tis less, y' nose is bla. 47. Taken at y' Same time. This is not much unlike y' last but not 1/2 so big. y" back is not so big in proportion nor doth it Shine so. y" wings are not so long as y*^ tail & dusky 48. Musca fusca cauda fulva. Taken in y" middle of June, much of y" Shape of 40 & 49. & y"' wings lye horizontal like them. The Eyes are Sad & take up all y^' upper part of the head, & meet the nose is black with a white Edging. The body or Chest is Shining black, y'' wings Sad at y" Setting on, & longer than the Tail, which is dark Orange with a black line down the length. & y"' Edges of y"-' rings black. & underneath all sad yellow except y' tip w'" is black, the whole tail is downy, the legs are black. & the toes white. 49. Scarabeus minor fuscus compressus aquatilis Taken in y" water in our ponds, about y'' middle of June. The whole is of a Sad colour. The head not to be discerned from the plate or Thorax having 2 very slender horns which by a glass appear joynted. & by y^ Same help 2 Small black Eyes are Seen on each Side the head. The Vaginae Shine. & are especially near y' Setting on bent inwards wth a fold to go under part of the body this Contrivance is to preserve the true wings from being wetted when they swim, the under part is Sadder than y'' upper, the 4 forelegs are brown & armed wth 2 Claws at y" toes, to Creep with. & issue out of y' fore part of the Thorax together the hinder legs issue out of y' Tail pretty low & end in flat fins, to swim with, w'*' they do very nimbly diving down to the bottom as soon as one approaches them, they will lye frequently at y'^ top in the Sun, very still to bask. 50. Phalacna pratensis Mouffeti 3a p. 9H Taken about y'' midst of June flying in y'' day w"*' it frequently does in meadows tho' in y' day. The whole body head legs & horns are very black the wings extend beyond y' End of the tail; each of y" upper wings is near black w"" a long scarlet streak where y" black is in y"" picture and 2 Scarlet spots at y' end of each wing, y' inner spot biggest, y' inner edges are Scarlet also, y*" underwings are Cherry colour, except y' edges v/'*' are Sad, all 4 wings are finely fringed at y" Ends. 51 . Phalaena pratensis Mouffeti prima p. 97. Taken 29 June in Coitu on a Stalk of Corn. There is no visible difference between y'' male & female. It is like the last, but y" body & tail is much bigger, y^ horns also arc thick at y' Ends, y" Sad of y' wings shines more greenish, & the Scarlet on y" upper wings is disposed into 5 fair Spots, & 2 smaller on y'' Edges, w'*" last is not in all. y" underwings are much less than y"^ upper, w"'' Mouffets figure observes not the wings are pendulous & not extended as in y" figure 52. About y" End of June 1 found an Aurelia hanging upon a twig, w^*" I put into a box, & w" I came to look on it. it had produced a Phalaena. v,'*' 1 call Phalaena albo fusca variegata. The whole body is a pale cloth as arc y^' under wings, the upper ones are variegated as 1 w"'' is done by y' life, y' Aurelia was left thus with a rictus where the fly comes out, & confirms me yet more in my opinion y' v^ head of y'' Caterpillar is y' tail of y*^ Butterfly, 53. Scarabeus Maialis gloriosa Splendens Grenoviensis. Taken flying in Greenwich Streets, y"= end of May; It Shines green all over y'' upper Side. & copper under y' Tail; It is of y'' May bug kind, y' head is Small & square, y'' Thorax or Sholdcr plate larg & almost Shaped like an heart from y' hinder part of w"'' in y" middle a triangular plate goes down between y'' Vaginae, these are marked w"' 3 Strokes of a whitish or Straw colour each & reach not to y' End of y" tail w"" hangs down, y'' under part of y' Thorax shines between Copper & green, & is thick Set v,"' brown hair y^ under part of y'' Tail is copper, & round y*" Edges hairy, vj'*' hairs imitate y' white marks in y' common (HARLES DUBOIS' INSECTNOTES 5S hrown May bugg. The 2 first Joynts of all y'^ legs are hairy & large with many points or prickles set on y"', & y'^ last joynts are Small & weak as in y" common one. 54. Scarabeus minor Ovalis splendens, tardipes, vaginis punctatis. Taken y" beginning of July on y" water Tub. It is an oblong Lady bird, y'' head is Small & Stands down & shines green, y' Thorax plate Shines more gold like. & y' Vaginae between green & copper, y" back rises round & gibbous y'' Vaginae appear w"" a Small help of a glass pitted full of small holes y" horns arc pretty long black tV lointcd in a glass y^' true wings arc large, & of a fine red. except y"^ transparent ends, y'' whole under part of y*" body is black; it goes slowly. 5.S. Musca media fusca; Taken y" middle of July upon y" flowers of Lcwage. The head is pretty round y'^ Eyes reddish, & do not quite meet, a Small white Circle going round y' Inward Sides of y"", y'" whole is of a Cloth colour body & tail, y'' legs are pretty long & black, y" wings somew' brownish just at their Setting on. .5(1. Phalaena fusca, alls 4 maculi insignioribus notatis. Taken flying about a Candle in y' Garden y' beginning of July, It is all sad colour'd except y' under wings w"*" are ash, y" upper wings are marked as in the figure with a Sadder colour y' Eyes are near black & prominent, when it Stands y" wings lye horizontal, & y' under ones are quite cover'd by y' upper 57. Musca Major caerulescens. Dni Hook. Micrograph. Schem. 26. where there is a full description Microscopical [****! |cut off) 58. Musca parva nigra Splendens. cauda tumida aculcata Taken about y" 7"' of July, y" head is taken up by the Eyes w"" arc reddish Sad & meet, y' 2 little hanging horns are black, y"' whole is black Steely shining, y*" tail swells out on each Side & ends in a Sharp point, y" wings are shining with Iris colours. 59. Musca parva nigra Splendens sine aculeo, capite rotundiore, taken Same time, on y' flowers of Levisticum. This differs from y" last in being longer, y" head rounder & Set further from y" Sholders, y° Eys Stand on each Side, & arc redder & Shining, the body or Thorax shines not so much, y'' tail is Set more slenderly as in y" wasp kind, & Shines of a remiss copper colour, & hath no point at y'^ End, y' legs are long, slender & browner. 60. Culex cornubus plumosis D. Hook Micrograph. Schem . . . where is a figure & Description 61. Papilio fusca, alls externis macula nigra quasi oculata insignitis. Taken y'^ beginning of July on y'= Grass in y" field. Two Short brush come forth between y"^ Eyes, w"'' are redish Sad, the whole head body horns & upper wings Sad, & Somewhat Shining, y' Under wings are orange in the middle most parts Shaded & Clouded wth Sad, at y"' Corners Stands a full black Spot w"' 2 Small white Specks in it, y" under part of y" inner wing 1 is y*" most vivid Side, as is the under part ot the upper wings, finely parted in wavy w"" a lighter colour near y" Ends. 62. Scarabeus ex minimis, ex fusco aurantius, found y' beginning of July, a Small oblong dark orange colour'd Slow paced Small Beetle, among Indian Seed Dustoa Vitlu 63. Scarabeus melanocyaneus Mouffeti p. 160 Taken in y' End of June, It is all over very black, the figure is sufficient for y'' rest, only tis made not round enough. 64. Blatta Mouffeti p. I.^N ubi|?| icon habitur tarn maris quam faeminae. Taken about our house in London, where are multitudes of various Sizes, so y' it appears they grow after exclusion, vide Swammcrdam 65. Scarabeus minor rotundus ruber, vaginis 2 maculis insignitis. taken 8 July, a Small Lady bird, y"" Thorax plate is bla. w"' a white Spot on each Side, & an oblong one next y' neck & two very Small ones next y' mouth as in 1. y" under side is all black, y" true wings brown. 56 L. JESSOP 66. Scarabeus elasticus major, this is imperfectly mentioned in N" 4 ot these papers taken in June, y"^ whole is a dirty Sad colour, y" head Small, y" Eys Scarce discernable y" Thorax plate larger than y" figure & pitted in next y"' body, y" Vaginae a little Striate, y" under part of y'' Tail, smooth & strongly armed divided by ."^ or 6 Shells of armour y' legs of a middling length when toucht it falls down as if dead. & when laid on y'' back will Spring up by a Spring Seated in the neck, w"*" Snaps when put in action. 67. Scarabeus elasticus minor. This hath y" Same Springing property with y' last, y^ head very Small, w"' 2 Small black Eys. y'' Thorax plate blackish, y" Vaginae chesnut. & reach all round lower than y" edges of y'' body, y^' under pan of y" tail of y'' Same colour, y" Thorax plate is continued part of y' way on y'^ Tail 68. Phalaena media Straminea. Taken at night by a Candle among nettles July 8. The whole is of a Straw colour, y"' Eyes black, y'' upper wings have faint reddish undulated lines on v"'. y^ under wings are as long & near as large as y"' upper, the legs are pretty large Stronger & brown, as I stuck it down it laid many very Small round white Eggs, y' stuck not the tail is darker colour'd especially towards y^' End. it sits w"' its wings hanging down in 2 or .^ houres the Eggs turned black. 69. Phalaena alis ex fusco virescentibus maeulis nigris insignitis. Taken by night in y'' Same manner, the head is ash ending in a longish proboscis, y" Eyes Sadder y'^ horns pretty long, ash colour'd & Standing at right angles w"" y"" head, y' upper wings are greenish towards y" upper edges. & Ends w"' lines running toward y" End not colour'd but a wrinkle & end in a black Spot y' ends fringed brown, y" middle parts of a Shining purplish Sad. on y^ upper part of w"'^ are 2 black Spots, y'^ legs are branched, y" under wings ash Shining, y'' tail Sadder, as it was Stuck with a pin it laid many oblong white Eggs, w''' was done by thrusting out a long Tube a good way from y" End of its Tail, w'-''' it wriggled about & one might See y" Egg come through it. w"'' Stuck to y"' place where it was laid, this Tube it pull'd in & put out many times before an Egg came. 70. Scarabeus medius fulvus. vaginarum extremitatibus nigris. Taken 8 July in coitu On y' flowers of Levisticum. It agrees exactly with y" description of N" 23. e.xeept. y' in this y" toes are only black. & the ends of y" Vaginae & it hath no black on y*^ forehead. 71. Musca alis subfulvis. Taken 9"' July by the River The Eyes almost meet, are of a Sad chesnut & large, the nose is Steely shining, the Thorax is sad. the tail a little lighter & Shining remissly on both Sides. & ending in a yellowish point underneath the wings are brown, especially near y^' Setting on. y' legs Sad. 72. Musca media Cauda ex luteo & nigro variegata alis Iridis modo splendentibus. take w"' 71. The head pretty large as are y'^ sad chesnut Eys y*^ parting between w"'' is Steel Shining, y"^^ back shines blacker, y" upper part of y" tail is yellow crost with bla. y" underpt yellow . y' legs browner yellow . the wings w" objected to y^ light Shine vivid w"" red & green 73. Musca fusca media, pedibus longis, alis macula insignitis. Taken with y" last, y^ head is not big. y' Eyes reddish Chesnut w"' a large ash colour'd division between The Chest is gibbous Sad strip'd wth Sadder, the tail lighter above & Shining ending in a point. & underneath almost wholly bla. y'' wings are pretty large brown & Shining with a black Spot in each as in v' figure this is verv different from N" 38 74. Scarabeus ex minimus chalybis colore & splendore alter, alis caeruleo linctis Taken with y*" last. The whole Shines blew as Steel, y'^^ under part black, y'' horns have no knoks but are somcw' thicker at y"' End. y^ true wings look blewish. w"' Iris colours & have a Small black speck on y" middle of y' outward Edge. 7.S. Idem longior ex utroque splendens cornubus longioribus. Taken with y" last both sides & every part Shining the blew is Somew' greenish, it is longer, & the horns longer also. 76. Papilio fusca alis Subtus 16 maeulis oculatis notatis. Taken by the River w"' y' last. The upper Side of y*= wings is all Sad, w"' long hair especially near y" head, the under Side of the wing is I HARLBS DUBOIS INSHCI NOTES 57 marked as in y'' figure, 3 in each upper wing & 5 in each under wing, in these Spots y^' first ring in orange, w"'in y'^ black, & in y"^^ Center a white spot, y'^^ body head & horns are Sad, & y^' legs a little browner. 77. Papilio fusca alis internis oculatis 61 . quodammodo accedens. Taken by y' River with y'^ last, This is darker all over than 61 . The Orange appears not so much on y' back of y" upper wings, but more underneath, where it is almost all Orange The under part of y'-' under wings is y" greater 1/2 Sadder, & to y'' Ends lighter with .^ black Spots in each towards y"" bottom. The Eyes are black. Edged w"' white backwards, & before just by y" Nose brown. 1 have one just like y^ Sort only w"" 2 Spots on each under wing 78. Musca bipennis ditricha; an an 3'' Mouffeti p. 63. Taken 22"' July floating on y" water, from whence I suppose it was newly emerged, being produced as I guess in the water, y" whole is greenish Orange, except y" end of y^' tail which is deeper, the Eyes are Small & black standing on each Side of y' head before w"'' are 2 very small fine horns, the Thorax is pretty thick, paler on y' Sides, as is also between y"' Thorax & y" tail the End of w"*' grows thicker, & at y'' Extremity come out 2 long Small hairs a inch in length marked w"" Sad Specks upon white. Scarce visible without a glass, (perdicei colons Mouffet) the under part of y"' body is brown; the legs are but 4 & green in y"" forepart of y' Chest under y'' head come 2 Small Stumps as if they were legs broken off. The wings are very large, y" upper Edge greenish, y'' rest transparent. 79. Eruca elegans flavis striis. Taken y"" End of Aug. in a Clover field a very Sad brown broad Stripe runs down y' length of y" back on each Side of w^'' runs a narrow yellow Stripe edged with white, y*" on each Side another broad lighter brown Stripe edged with black, under that on each Side a yellow Stripe like the former, y^ upper part edged with white & y'' under edged with grey, y'' head & legs are of a reddish flesh colour, y^ Legs are 6 Sharp ones at y" head, 8 flat ones in y" midst & y'" 2 holders at y" Tail, after it had fed some time upon Lettuce it hid it self under one of the Leaves w''' it fasten'd to y^ box, & changed to a very dark brown Aurelia. w^'' in Some day turned black Miscellany Thoughts about Vegetables. The consideration ofthe Infinite Power, wisdome and goodness exhibited in the Immense Variety of beings wherewith the Great Creator has furnished this world naturally leads us to y' admiration of those adorable Perfections so eminently display'd in his works. Amongst others the Vegetable Kingdome affords instances in as vast a Variety as the Plants are which He has made, whether we consider their Numbers, differences. Figures diversity of ways of vegetation & producing their kinds. Structures, Vertues & Uses, In all which Since a regular distribution of what might be said will be operose & difficult to reduce to a good method. Such thoughts and Observations as occur are here set down for y*^ present till they can be brought into a more just Order. 1. The universal [♦***] tends to preserve (****] & perhaps of all other Animals. 2. The flowers being of different colours does at a great distance direct Bees. & divers other flying Insects, whither to repair for Food. 3. Perhaps Plants may serve amongst other Uses, to strain & correct some noxious Juyces before they come abroad into y^' Air, by their passing through their Vessells. 4. I do not remember any Tree to have down on it's Seed, Such as pappescent Plants have , they not needing such ways of Conveyance for their Seeds to be sown at a distance from them, their Tallness_ putting their Seeds so high into y"^ Air that y*^ wind can carry them remote enough 5. The same of water Plants, whose Seeds are Sufficiently dispersed by bare falling down into y" water y'' flowing of which carryes them into distant places. 6. [**•"■] generally very smooth y' the water may slide easily off them without any way bruising their Vessells 58 L. JESSOP 7. The flowers of water Plants stand above y^' Surface, & the Seed y' follows which would not otherwise be dry to ripen. 8. Birds do often supply the place of a Sower in Berrys especially that have stonv seeds, which pass through their Bodies, without losing their aptitude to grow again, & being dung'd into the Bargain. y. The surface of the Leaves of Herbs good for Food are Smooth & free from down, which would be unpleasant in the mouth, & not easy to digest, as Cabbage, Lettuce, Beets, purslane Parsley, Endive &c . CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 59 A^:^^.. " ' c ■*-■ " 60 L. JFSSOP ,vSv^ ^\.-- .^^ 6- /i CHARLES DUBOIS" INSECT NOTES 61 *: .......x"- M .. O- 07^ I- ,1 / . - 1.-' J\ 62 L. JESSOP i CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 63 n " r/.. /,.?„.,, ^(,„„^ ^'^r,\, . ' /. *?•» -«»-■ 5>r^^,-,,^ »»j4iA' 64 I,. JESSOP ^ T i V ..^/ i/Jy reMf^^jl <■ «.>^ ■t 'X4/r ^ s kf'^-^'Ctf A4r< • r* I. • »-t CHARLES DUBOIS INSECTNOTES 65 v v-^ >=v t ■ *■ 1 'JI//0 - / 1 „^ /• l-Ct^M-./rf nil ran f I,- / ' , „\y J" •'.•»v w ,'„ -. ... ,*•. /I. 7/^ ti~/My> • •' ' t. \j i CHARLES DUBOIS" INSECT NOTES 67 :> \ \ v ,^-:^ >^.v..,.., 0./,..,^ ^^„,,,^^ •;/ jt:- -^-'■- ^-'^-^. •■' '•" '■ ■■ •■'" v' ^ ■:..x /• ''/-—,, .■;.^.^,^, .>,w.:, 68 L. JF.SSOP f O y'.ipilio n'lA laeiiiia^tiJ Zl .y J''rrt>.* Colour .jcf.'i»^,v f tf>a oj ^y kno(ri ix''^ are i>t(lti , »inffj c^n_ if titi}Ay fi^Tja^ 'i (HARl.ES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 69 > I , ,.f f «t .K. t 'J 70 L. JESSOP c? '♦«-> i.«,jfA» v-Afi/J' •■ /i/.". c/j:^tl,>>- i./in»S- tiiAT/tJ L.ra.'iji, 1,1 ^rn.e y>.'» -'.T") ■»»» '»^ t/v.S-. wtVV.' o^j'V* ii«i.*T lifii'fJ ■'11 »/<« ? loil-A -tfrtiJt ' t'r. . It :! Ota." 4"^ v'jx.M.*-!? ci'i/A ri.«r^, y n>. ^^V Jt'jLc i^ -fiU.X-v ti'" *^ r-4 i^^ CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 71 'Ha 9 " /■' I II - Hi',,, I • J. ^-' . fj*,'! 72 L. JESSOP I. , Hi." I jJtU'o -ItcJctL- , alio ^j(iS-rn.<.i> Vii'ikA*;^-' rt-rfi-* fl'dOijfl JetX;*.'!^ n>A^^ ktnJ, fitrrnj nc^cnxJ- H^ rrCnfiii of nu.m , tiMfn-r^/ y*^ Gyrn<>rj of 6a c A . ^Ira.^^ -- y^./^ QCc^clZ S^otr, uAHl 2 X«// H^A^V^ ^,^.^ % L CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 73 9^ ■hue,: a.1,: ^Uitltii JO »'.nf«Aj ociidilii ne>tn.ttj t r 74 L. JESSOP 12 ~ >-/ ce. ,K, ,.., t.,, i„A... $Z. Tj ^•"'" '■ ' '•'■• J 75 CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES '\ t 9c I J^» 76 L. JESSOP .^..j /yg.^ ^jr. 5^n.X!./2>-..r '''i^'.W' CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 77 '\ «^. -jtijto f> I <^ /•' -' V« /'.r^y «■• /*.? f.-i/?(. ^ji, ...•I'AC A i^lr^,, cC f ! rtxAttyfii fa-r.-^''^ .!...<. . fl » r\ ^t. 78 L. JESSOP •,- o> ■.l,'.f' "^ ■""" '"■•"■• ■'^■^ --"V.y;...^ „;,, ^-'.;^ ;:./^.„ ^.^,, ^z:^..:., S *^-^.A f/!y ^../ .oc^fi'JZ 'J, y >f-^ ../^^ yV..>'.,: I.., ,/ ■ ' ^ •" --"•' '^-.Z' ^.„^A J'„.^ ''■#»* flil|/|- .^>- '.•;^ ^,, j-;;^ rt ,,.,/^ ^, ^Ao .».„, „ „,; 7,,^^ ^ j^ ^^^ •^'/...v .•„,:., Ay ^,7, ^ CHARLES DUBOIS INSECTNOTES 79 , J c l\ <' C C. ' /« , *■<> A. nnK^r. vat A. Tim* y , »-^^t ftii«.' 'V uHalj/nA It '(fa^ iJitifii, ^j, tern), S' i/&>rvJjr. •./& ^^^•' '^^' *''''7}/ ^'*'-9 I ^ ^^nr/i.' c^ \ 2_^ « '<-i,nJ t.f^'^i-,^'"^'^^ tr y' f'-'-.f v-e-ri/ (*»i^. Cnr/T 0/-;^ ft« rivy/ Or> <*«*- 1 5 "J- r<^?*«.-HV«' K'Af-'f*''-'- 2- 80 L. JESSOP u iPu... •-^t £.^ "».," r«>X>- ^ ^ i^„ ^ ^ ^ ^^i-//^.>.wL. .S,^,,^ 'ff^ iTic/y "2^ I »'''£vi <./C^i. ,«-^.-?i,. ^ o> ^ / -^'^ ''l<' Jln.< -/li^'^i y ayi. CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 81 £n'ij ifu ifa.ft 'f-^ tuintj jAt'n>J tnrtt:.- n N ^ ifivr ^X f^pJ'^J' t^/'ff-^- on^'J-, tJ^i'i v-i o-C^tivT) ^, //;««^>/.--/7^»t,< 't ^"a^rfni a.l{ro~J\i4eA. ail UCA. aUj v~a/r\y4 attJ iydt AuYttW (?^yin^ t,p,r^^ ^n'^f , i'>'<^J t,ut- ", li ^7 82 L. JESSOP /.o ■^ ma cu lt4 f/;".- un>^^ tifittfj w^ich. f f/u, k ''pt''^ "'"'9'' "ri friA-r^O-r/ ivj |^ f^ /',.iT.. i..,7/^«. J'nclJ^ ^''H^ Ltirae^ , kftrcn-a, i>' (yien'ri. ; "-'"'■■i it n'aj tfttccK. dtrittn. trt, a. tiox Ufi)/i '^ /"" , «/ Irtii Kir. 7i_./ sf-ini JtfUiU. , |-io-n>if\ »if/it/t. Cdo^, tu^' VhifK Hoi- /e,V* "^> , '•'"' d )8 fijh. cfttnAt'a V Oh<■ y^x.-t h,/rA f in O ^ n f ■? /^ , ^ i'// ' HA^>f ^O. ^ -'^o-bi tin. ij fc,/9.v . /AT. -^ /"'■'. '*'<>>.•-, »!.>„//' CHARLES DUBOIS" INSECTNOTES 85 ',f'ix *-'^ *,"jtatL. nUhi . ^^"^y , ^Witf ^> S' U-.j^j^ fe,,^^ i),H>r, tn4 t- o^f 'fs ^*yf^ , -".j '.■'''* 0.2 \'h(tlcf no. aU All A.iJ*n lU* hi'f^jyuj ri-/r**/i,', ii.7ji"or*^ \WjUt,,y- 6*jll.nnims »f-A-'un^. Jh. fyjrf a.o-t Cfmr/., f"j .iiG.'wR.^t Z^?" ' -^'^ •'►'^ "f/"'^ '^'■^''■' ^^'- '«^V , f^y* -'T^ f^^* '/».V •'i.V.V if- /^' 'i,,7>r Ti.',',,f4 .,>, „^^ tCufii^l li^il !rr-ti>i„itJ .^(-t.,^ ^'- "/'/'■■ •/«*-/«: '*' 4# I'A*" ^»:*r/>r.% /■' arc <-/- Vi 5(1 86 L. JESSOP o, -24 ' ^ ""■*»«»- ^•"•-n itr-it's tmxnt'^rtlj i4^uCntiJ »ori,J «x.y;;,><; m^nd'i ..N/jf .^kO V^.Vtj ^^ .v.//;V/, tS<^ .7 /CO Q«H^ \t- ^J-f-f v,\ ^ S.x ^ ./• fr^ . (Jrw. »i^V o^C Xrr.,,vl„f ^ *».- (^V j/«r^ ^y I^Wja^ :, < %rtym,-<.0 •^rrt ^*y^ «-*»- '^f* ti>^/A^ tOi. QoW •^^i-rc trr I fi j^.K .-1 M^^ riv/ C*J€ fftly ai't t/'A^rrZ . nvt-U^ri^f «'»♦ ^t«^ Crffr/^^-r^ * t^^)i4K t-»v«*»-Ti ^f*»*v- •V'lTtt O^-^/.V *«^^ /iG /* 88 L. JESSOP ay • tl>^ » ,ij .a» •• fyf. y/J - f m^' 2S 'Hum ■&irti>t tfft' IO^"~ i u>«» •'.•(/ /I'/uVo -U-tnt. on tarA*J<'rtc^ //.. , CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 89 ^f^C^tk^fniJff- <,J^tM^e£-,^^4.sjf^»j cure KtWc^^itS. 3o Pn-i^ev^y •j^-^ jy^«/^'-.; ^./ /.^ ^^^^._^^ ^^^ .^y^/;,.,.^ .. 90 a** i > • ' tAr ah i n'l m Ci eitu J. L. JESSOP /V- CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 91 /. Kak.'n iy^\'. lit-.Ht C>r ft'/ "/ y f>ir-i>ri^ y' /f.-.^rfj- !•/?.•/ ty^pt-cSntCy , lii^ rt->-« I't^/.T^* ■>-«»- />.'!<■/» 92 L. JliSSOP 3 T ^<2-'-' ^-^- -«A-r,.H,.-r.^.;r>f C«- c^.yf, <^/Vy „ /.O . /^'« . /5r CHARLES DUBOIS" INSECT NOTES 93 b- i6o. ' f %) tJcaTao ,' nj S-y »,, /n.y..:^ .o'^ u ^ S[;>^U-n */Cl^//.*^.5- 94 L. JESSOP Va^tnrf Ch^n^ii- ec/'^n.t^, w''^ trtncA ri If re^nn) , C»t.oir f/tmiu n^.V *i- i/JW^y ^J .27/, ^/ u»D^ 0«^f y!^*- .^/ rj «,/*,,• 8 Jc^ra.6*U^ :£<.i(x^cj t>^c-no„.t CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 95 <. 5 uJt;-. % I.. JESSOP fc. '7 J CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 97 7 2 ' 7~r ' 98 L. JESSOP f3. » ''./.;, J ^, /.,,,. /i^ A^ /■ ^''r/:.,,^ j^u i^j^rjr^' \Tr-' '^f^y'^'J ^r^.f 100 1-. jussop f6~ \.'Ai-tTx.' -j-xi-'%rxij , \'-n<)i'tia.ri*ni Jr_y frerni Jn Ul'nJ t-'*.A<-n ^ S op- Ju.^1) ^loxo}-yj of- -^ ci'i.i 1 1 c n /,, '7 i/i.r.S.' ai-^ '))lf^■ Al VniC b<,.ri'. 102 L. JESSOP 2o. . ^ceLra-bciw C iLainltj min.^r' .'/■^/^ «« ^ ;;:/.v^ ^^y £^S,cf-C^ ^ ^.^^ y.l j/ZA^ (■4yn . / F *-^'' CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 103 ^1.6 caretu< ^••»?r..O y-/c^,„ ,,.y ^,„^^ 'r *'""" t''^'^-^' '""^ ^ i'-'^ ^^ ^i; ^.^s l^Xz:L »• CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 105 J.^_!iyi^-_.-_ :_[^jfiir!;:i'>'.',:i '.1. 106 L. JESSOP ^J "^^ralrtuj timnUi co^'ffri^ ,Ju(>U J % y Ja-ki-n. al^^ioAf on a. ^e-*tf ^.'rry tuxj/l ; J fit. iO ^farAieiU ni^.< tijini^ jfrt^itri >.* CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 107 -> niacuU'j fri2L4_l\ J A ^'cxr^enj arSx ''vrCicJ rn^'rin-Qi/tift.- p9( ♦ <4u»it/t# "» - n^t-. 108 L. JHSSOP 33 OfarA^tnV minor rctuni rtcStr '^«.K>n. ffPf/l^j , St i'i i> a. iltr^al Jfu. kfj^i^ ■Jho-ra.je laLaJk-z. U mrUtrt^ ^tt- utt'ttZ tar^' > vCa.fA ^potj 3A-Sc^a/;^^ m^^_^^,^^ Cnj,^,^;^,^ 3: fl^ninff fl-n. A.*r t'l\f^ '^S- Sc^^r^euy „u„^ rcmz/Je y..„Q,«^, J-^,„l^ ;«f«. . §^ Jlr-.^U,. 9^„f.^„t, AG., .„^^ ^^ f^ ^^^^ f^y ^^ >-l CHARLBS DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 109 3^ 110 L. JESSOP »'.< mn tk oj Jr ^ naat. ^^ Jiit^ id f/H -tto /7 . y^ i»S- nit'' rfX'iff' , 'if JrAAl- jAi'm'nf ,^ i,0/ef^y ^nfiutt n.x. /t/»^ |t>« /A \J.rn^U*h jint-t<.n)yr \f''*f}Hln^ n. tf fA!ctvin«4 . ^-'Ac nut U-in*j /i / v If?.' '>u£fn.t^tuy (^rt^ir^ tii y Jh*»i-M, tO-rOtnti- a^~.A^"- /TjQQ^i of f^Uy ^ (ni^y- 'Mm^ fCifc <> A^rvJ tr Hanf,/ rt'^i-^y* t^iUl*r, fr evfry «>■/ / o,^,.M.*..-,y A, pi^f/cc^r^ ^/cr£a-,"/€'/ ^ ^c^^,/ «-»-«. yj//.^„ ^-. r,_ ^ J^ r^o\^r, , J.y),^ ^.,,, P,, . ^,,^^ .,. /^^^ J^.^ £^^ , ^ A'''-,Vfy 116 L. JESSOP CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 117 n irvscioiJ lyvict. 1/ i'fnn'A. 1 .''7' <^i'j «^-. >V*c ''^' --C-rnJ-r •/^^ 'J'?*^ <7 ' '^'■'^•^ _4 ■-:. 118 L. JESSOP ..'Syr ■..r,h\^-fir^J>^^J,^^;^^.lip.y-C^^^^,^ ^r/,;./, g.- ./' -»•..•. f 'i.; ys^j,**.-^ .-,7.4./ «i/»c. t <^».-i^ tu •ji-Cfa .c- A.:i iir^j tn- ry • '»< ^ *•*( 7 ' ** *5'' ^''7*^ uyih uyA,t< rv« « l4»-n*»«. yO^'^-c* r«^y t# t*»-ri4 ^-*— », .^ \ >i->Jn~+ < A< '•It' V --.,1,, „•.? tVf/y /:>. SOul, •? .'ff/.., 5S- L jirsaiii__.. lU^ 1 CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 1 19 :';f'-_jP''f^^lenarik.,n^„ ,. •1^ TT, V. ./". % A. - - . M . ■ f /j L'ttLC. 'Th tV ea /ri r ; '• i^ / - /- '-' ?^ ' ~ '^'^ "'"•'* <- ' AC' f/?? 120 L. JESSOP <) C-Vtili»fl ixpi+e-f-trtiO -j-ii-^e o :-j til v-tL "'^r^'' ,-/?^", ,<:?«. Oat A'.f.t,', .'-•/ (-''M-'j/Tn. 'ii-.'^r.,/ f'njtit,^'^ ty.\ .1, \f'-*a.et.ii f^t'e/Z nfM- tu^ i^ti't ^rr^ti Ain't tr ^ ^ tffi^ 'r ■>■.■, <' '-rnry /?„lry ^„ .. /t , /,'//. V , y* •^''^"^ (''^ ^^ ifo ^ i7i A , A ,.' .,. fun yV^y rt^y-^"/^ •/ Ktno.^J '>f> V ^.w-'// aJ if it ^ \ Vfi ti xj cs€?.^ r 122 L. JESSOP tl .\ .n !j) Jna^ ui>i>^i jf- tJrCm'.^r »(! \f^nny K.H *rn els ti,,, ■ i'trt :..' m^y^ ,urt J^.yrvtn.*. StCvyr^)fi xv'^ ^ ^,„*& i^^ /?€rrr,j ,, -^^-o-rtJ S-CatK CcnA^.J/ /"iS/vAn^i .••/ ntt.}h ^IfttifJ /»r* !•■•/> i i.'jh. uf>^ »v^ ^ry JT^-rj,'i,^\„K^ j^ie ^l y j^nc„^:X\^^^ ,nh J^ 7.V.4/ ^ n-^iU, CytCiJ ,j^ -i^lfy y^fCtfu), rtA y f«0 i-CtLfj^ ^ ^ryia A- 'Ct^'tt ■^y^'- W^^trun'jX. ^ fu'nt'j-r- fnej j/H^, to^tiC it. i^oxi^r, Joeh \ I4- L'liu>cn.ai}ifirrr„,'j v^leye {litre e^tiifrt, imn'tcj , • '»/./i Z-* ti'cifit. in jv" •C^'vM. nt^r i1*h i/ljCj . .i'f f'.. <, I'.Hy t>,r„^'/,.., y 2 A-mV SCiLti., I^ie£ V i'^{f*'iKt(^ Cc^ _y i^Djc ,i <.' > • / i J.*- J 1 1 4 1 11 LA -i CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 125 YeJpa-, tnlnor ^dm>^tu) mtu£*la^ a^rvu,£iU t »v ca.<^ tv , ■^ffoAf^ , >--j rt^c«/«r.; t«^t^/ri, ^fC^Z. l*t. -JrtfnJt^ tt^ttx/ti TTO^m f / 126 I.. JESSOP \ (^'^I'tl^ 'A CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 127 / eJiOi\ I. v ) / ^^; 'y;^:"^•/^ -^r/^^' ^'rr^*-%-cf'nrt^' ^ Aoi-Je n'lar^} cnnan. A- .S^ ttrr^o , »«J -iretnuUVj lii >itiLj(0 Alto n^ta-tlj cr> o \ ^ 132 L. JESSOP lf*'VJ Cauca corhX^rt T'-^i imtiuj \ ,'> CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 133 isvsfsrTST^; .^: ^ iM 134 L. JESSOP ^^fpthlf m ^ • /. ' 6- ■"'' "" ^^-^-^ •'-'- '^^v /..< ^;^ a c-ii>c,j'uj.^ca.7ii.e^g^ 2. i CHARLES DUBOIS" INSECT NOTES 135 -y C /^i'.> 9L rce^a. •--<. / 136 L. JESSOP [jCntlJ Citntc'inum if J CHARLES DUBOIS" INSECT NOTES v- Wi.'/ in the UC attimrio oj »,'«*»i.(t; Ut tn oi't>.( J Loi'^'^ly , ' I, U Jl-fyii^j ^tifl tfijL /uia^ V rctij^A Cifie^-^Ki of a.^ai), t' It InjOfrt i tj b^/iefi , il-eein Fmri'i, rCCc^vfr i tj —feel' ^ Ix'ht'efi. •A U^i.'-ttsv.^ Jh-cn^ ,9/vytx, III ; S' nrJltri ^edll turn.i clIL '■"««■, 0< J^iinfij till t-o mti£.r J/Im. • 'X< /•/<»•) ii uAx. £>_ I rtf iVt'^^-^V*" At^o ihtTit/L fl,f^ are ^Ca.cK.,\y hcrn^ Aatte. M rc^. >• 'j^rny fr i/eiiC a-rec'.t'jj^ ; il- fieJn ncihtcr- fVtiioJ nor- Vtnft:t>C. V i»t./i/ y JAiTt e- y t/ni'l hn^irt- <^n ihot-h t/i««'y it- IJ me^^tJtc^ t.-« *ft fV/HL v.'. i^« friT^S^^ li rt^nlarfy mAn-Ji'J ui"^ xft> oh /fi-i 4 Ca^j.^j/- i/ ntTi'^UtriiSff- ate, {o'^b.'r- ctyfeni'tV ^ in &etJ - 137 ir-or/i 138 L. JESSOP « A A .V , « rf^f/. / ;;^\:.:"^'-'^>;^<^?;i7^;'''^';,7^'^^'> .. ■ .'T. fe*'^. ^"^".'L^ v&c/i,.ri .; ^ /i^^^ . ;i ^ i^, ^^^ ^^^ iVvrrt^ <''' A^O 1, I" CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 139 m o A / / I'^zr'p^ C -la ^~- > '3 c/.T^^,//., ailfK,..L-4 tr,^,,.: vV"^"^<^^a>''''^'*/ .>-'.■' {.» . y -Did ,^\y ^/,',,,, J-,;, ^/ y <.^y.\r V-Sy *^fl f- (•rr'f.in.^t, .,-..,,2 v' *■*'»■'« ^''/.; C^ *y^ J /e f, 140 L. 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C7 ' J" **-♦' *^>> \ii^ CHARLES DUBOIS INSECT NOTES 159 •-'»'a a./- A. kI hrmAAj k. -^ , //T^ > , < ^.jtfy i,^ ^^ ^. j^ ^^;^_^ -a •v^ . f.^Ul^Qu^ rxl,>x'j , 'X£; '% ••« C/»,' /„ //...,.,. 160 L. JESSOP 73 . fn*Vi«,-, ' C "iiicx ^^cc fn*Ji«.-, /»'«'fritj!^**P**'"J cotton f^tt4 -' 'jUkC- / ■,-^ii.'^''"Klj'ruJ- w*' ajAi 'o^UH itfhifi^n iA^KjdAK /^ 9»#|0l?tO ^ ..y®'-?. ifAcL CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 161 -5 ^'^'^^"^ ^.v.^^ /^.-t^.,/, ,, t'-'" ^""-^ V -cr' -^^„:^^ ^;^..,, . ^^^£ -5:f^;;^: %-^r^..: r^t^ ,? ■' f 't ■ lira fCu Cin?/ n.i id V «Q mi ra / er^ "fi^xryA.' %.ntrttyn^j-t- o //i3rj trie L'fj^etat'^tt ' fp-z^/t. rt-r'ttr-o/ vn /r n?i e,*J tn n J itiyi- a L/rnriB/y furt h ^^TtJetti^ -{ I (i 'Af^ '■■in '^'^ l^ffni f/t/- ttrhci A f/jiyrc fuy?- \ CHARLES DUBOrs' INSECT NOTES 163 "TTICT^ *„ /'t iJ . I- At trt,iArJ t-ft'rif flr ai'^ti i.,.c fii/tl,<^ k'^TiJSel^, *\>/{t//Ceyr~ to re f,n/i tr / V> /y&y * ■^rto-»g/t oM^*, S. >■ <^e .r^'^ic />/" /in A*r- t.''t1t ni^^ , ■fi^/^'^ye. L^t^dj nye ** ^ /\6 • /? /* /^ Z ''^ * 164 L. JESSOP / n < ' 1/ *' 1. .. ^^irnj do ot'I»n Jiif>f>€u the pilte^^ f - n i ><■".'»' •^%?frryJ CJf>feJrt-fCy t/iff- Aaf* j/trny ^c'Ci}^, Ij'/'(f4. 1'^ m C\ y ir*4.f iXjBf a ■/i^'f> iM/r A/)-if «n-rL ^7 CHARLES DUBOIS' INSECT NOTES 165 ^ ^ Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnologia Editor: Juan Jose Saldafla (University of Mexico) Quipu (Latin American Journal of History of Science and Technology), is devoted to the history of science and tech- nology in Latin America. Founded in 1984. it is published three times a year. Contributions are welcome and articles are accepted in Spanish. English, Portuguese and French, Quipu has become indispensable for all those who study Latin Ameri- can science and technology as well as for scholars interested in the diffusion of science in different cultural contexts. 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London SW7 5BD re/e^one.- 01-938-9386 Telex: 929437 NH PUBS G f^.v.- 01-938-8709 World List abbreviation: Bull. Br. Mus. iiat. Hist (hist. Ser.) © British Museum of Natural History. 1989 ISBN 0 565 09012 7 Historical Series ISSN 0068-2306 Vol 17. No. 2. pp 167 -258 British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD Issued 30 November 1 989 Typeset by J&L Composition Ltd, Filey, North Yorkshire Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (hist. Ser.) 17(2): Ifi7-25X Issued 30 November 1989 Mrs Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924): a Passion for Fossils R.J. CLEEVELY j 118 DEC 1989 Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History)! prfiCC^f.jyCJ^ Cromwell Road. London. SW7 5BD ,, , , \;:;:\' ,'.:... R.P.TRIPP L_ 41. Kirk Drive. Thornhill. Ontario. UT 3KB. Canada Y. HOWELLS 12. Ashmore Drive. Silverdale. Newcastle-under-Lyme. Staffs. ST5 6RL CONTENTS 1. Introduction 169 2. Biography of Mrs Elizabeth Gray and her family 1 70 3. The Gray Collection 175 ( i ) Collecting Methods 1 75 (ii) Mrs Gray's Localities 178 (iii) The Use and Users of the Gray Collection 180 (a) Thomas Davidson 180 (b) Charles Lapworth 183 (c) H. A. Nicholson and R. Etheridge. Jnr 185 (d) F. R. C. Reed 187 (e) Other Users: W. K. Spencer 188 Mrs. J. Longstaff 189 W. H. Hind 190 T. H. Withers .A 190 (f) Visitors ■ 191 4. Biographical account of F. A. Bather 192 5. The Correspondence between Mrs Gray and Dr F. A. Bather ... 194 6. Aquisition of the various Gray Collections 204 (i) Original Collections 204 (ii) Subsequent Collections 209 7. The Girvan Fauna 210 (i)The Ordovician Age in relation to the Girvan Fauna 210 (ii) The Silurian Period & its relationship to the Girvan Fauna jcontribution by Dr L. R. M. Cocks] 212 (iii) Interpretation of the Girvan Fauna 214 (iv) The Starfish Bed, Lady Burn 219 8. Conclusions 221 9. Acknowledgements 225 10. Footnotes '. 226 1 1 . References 234 Appendix 1 Letters between Mrs Gray and Thomas Davidson recorded in Davidson's Letterbooks between 1847-1884 241 Letterbooks in Palaeontology Library Archives, British Museum (Natural History) 241 Chronological summary of entries relating to Mrs Gray 242 168 R. J. CLEEVELY. R. P. TRIPP ANRY. HOWF.LLS i^^iifi^^^^iO^, Mrs Elizabeth Gray, still tollccting at the age ol 92, this photograph was taken on a family visit to Balclatchie in September 1923. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 169 Appendix 2 Mrs Gray Correspondence in Palaeontology Library Archives, British Museum (Natural History) 244 Summary of Contents 244 Mrs Elizabeth Gray Correspondence Vol. I, 1874-1914 245 Mrs Elizabeth Gray Correspondence Vol. 2, 1915-1923 248 Appendix 3 Alice Gray letters in General Files, British Museum (Natural History) 251 Alice Gray — F. A. Bather Correspondence 253 Summary of All Alice Gray Correspondence 253 Appendix 4 List of Gray Localities in the Girvan district 254 1. INTRODUCTION Amateur fossil collectors have always made a valuable contribution to palaeontology. Inevitably, during the early days of the science their collections augmented the material gathered by the professional geologists and made a substantial contribution to its development. The various specialists and professional geologists were able to make only occasional forays into the field and either employed local residents to gather specimens, or had arrangements with quarrymen, or else had to rely upon the collections of amateurs to resolve the problems they encountered. Other naturalists, like the Sowerbys, who produced the early reference books encouraged such collectors to submit material to them for determination with the hope that they might have "something new", which could then result in recognition of their effort by being named accordingly (Allen, 1976; Cleevely, 1983). In his history of Scottish Palaeontology, Clarkson (1985: 1) has shown how the discovery & description of the rich fossil assemblages of the Palaeozoic sedimentary rock sequences of Scotland was largely conducted by self-taught amateurs. This was particularly the case with the thick sequence of Ordovician rocks, mainly elastics and limestones of shallow water origin with their rich, often unique faunas occurring around Girvan, Ayrshire. Mrs Elizabeth Gray, wife of the ornithologist Robert Gray, amassed consider- able collections from this district and has been described 'as one of the foremost fossil collectors of all time' as a result of her redoubtable activities over a period of more than fifty years (ibid: 1). Her initial efforts were encouraged by the research interest & need for Palaeozoic brachiopods of Thomas Davidson and subsequently, by Charles Lapworth, who utilised the fossil faunas she helped to reveal to interpret and correlate the stratigraphy of the Girvan region. Miss Etheldred Benett (1776-1845) is regarded as the first woman geologist (Cleevely, 1983: 54) through her wide involvement in collecting British fossils, particularly from the Cretaceous exposures of Wiltshire. The Philpott sisters ( 1833-40) were amongst the first to collect Jurassic fossils in Dorset on behalf of the specialists and were soon joined by the more widely known Mary Anning (1799-1847), partly to provide themselves with additional income. However, a decade later, Mrs Gray began a lifetime of collecting in the Girvan district of Ayrshire solely out of interest. She was a woman of extraordinary character and considerable determination, who as a result of these activities left a lasting name in Scottish geology (see Flett, 1937). 170 R. J. CLEEVELY. R. P. TRIPP ANO Y. IIOWELLS The Gray Collections have become of particular value because: (a) a careful record as to the exact geographical location and geological horizon from which each fossil was obtained had been maintained; [this was also augmented by Mrs Gray"s phenomenal retentive memory of each specimen!]: (b) it was also one of the earliest collections containing information as to the relationship of the specimens to one another; or attempting to ensure that part/counterpart were kept together; (c) the collections formed the basis for many of the earlier descriptive papers and monographs by significant Palaeozoic palaeontologists [principally owing to its uniqueness]; this material also formed the basis of the fossil lists published by the officers of the Geological Survey in their Memoirs. As a result, the Gray collection contains many type specimens of British fossils and is also significant in the nomenclature of higher taxa. Together with her daughters, Mrs Gray formed three collections of Girvan fossils; the first is now in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, the second in Edinburgh and the third, by far the most significant, was purchased by the BMNH in 1920. Later, her daughters contributed substantial material fo the BMNH to augment the original collection. Apart from providing information on the accumulation of the fossils by the Gray family and their subsequent acquisition by institutions and their use by palaeontologists, the main purpose of this paper is to indicate Mrs Gray's relationships with these scientists. The extensive correspondence now preserved in the Palaeontology Library of the British Museum (Natural History) through the efforts of her daughter Alice and the co-operation of two former Keepers of Geology. Dr W. D. Lang & Mr W. N. Edwards, has enabled us to attempt this appraisal. In fact, examination of her lengthy correspon- dence with Dr F. A. Bather over a period of thirty years, reveals Mrs Gray's single- mindedness. To attain her objective of ensuring the description of 'her Girvan fossils" as quickly as possible, ideally in a series of monographs based on the Gray Collection, she somewhat overlooked the other tasks and difficulties that might beset the busy specialists, whom she had persuaded to undertake the work. Recognition of the significance of the Gray Collection and the qualities shown by Elizabeth Gray in accumulating such a wealth of material, has led to several earlier attempts to write a short biography and record the history of the collection. However, neither the original attempt made by Alice Gray', nor a later effort by W. N. Edwards of the Department of Geology. BMNH" was ever published'. Fortunately, although W. N. Edwards' notes cannot be found. Alice Gray's earlier drafts have been preserved amongst the Gray papers'*. In many respects, she might almost be considered as another author of this paper, for in addition to her biographical account of her mother, Alice was also responsible for the organisation of the Gray Correspondence, various family photographs and other relevant material into several bound volumes before presenting them to the BMNH in 1938. Furthermore, much of our own information on the Gray family and their collecting has been gleaned from the occasional reminiscences that Alice Gray made in her letters to the staff of the Department of Geology. 2. BIOGRAPHY OF MRS ELIZABETH (;RAY AND HER FAMILY The little biographical information available was provided by her daughter Alice in a brief account of Mrs Gray's life written at the request of the Geological Survey, after her mother's death''. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 171 Elizabeth, the younger daughter of Thomas and Mary Anderson, was born at the Burns" Arms Inn, Alloway, nr. Ayr on 21 February 1831 according to baptismal records (pers. commun. Danielia Shippey, 17 October 1985). However, Elizabeth Gray and her family always recognised 21 March 1831 as her birthday [see Biography MSS and letter 18 March 1913]. In 1836, her parents moved to the Girvan district when her father decided to leave his occupation as an innkeeper and become a farmer. At the age of fifteen, after education 15 20 25 T 1 1 r N Shalloch Mlll^ Woodland Poinl.< Whilehouse Bay. Ardmillan Brae v-S >6S, South Threaver Drummuck •^^ — — • Newlands e^!5V Mulloch Hill • Craighead Quarry^ a\e' , „t Gir>!25' fNEW DAILLYV Camregan Wood* »GIRVAN • Dow Hill -^0. cTT-Af^- '''fc^^^C^^Balclatchie Benan Burn» lUinuntion Quarry / Aldons Quarryi A714\ 1 MILE I 1 Map of the Girvan area. 172 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS at a small private school in Girvan, Elizabeth was sent to a boarding school in Glasgow for a year. She then returned to the farmhouse at Enoch to assist her mother in looking after her six younger brothers. During this period, her interest in the local fossils was aroused by her father, who gathered specimens when travelling around the neighbour- hood, particularly material extracted from nearby sites used in repairing the roads. Thomas Anderson was a keen naturalist, and in their monograph on the fossils of the Girvan district, Nicholson & Etheridge (1879: 165) dedicate a trilobite BronieiLs andersoni to this "intelligent and enthusiastic collector' and later named a coral after him (p. 273)*'. Left: Robert Gray (1825-1887); pi. V from obituary published in Glasgow Naturalist. Vol. 4. Right: Family photograph of Mrs Elizabeth Gray in iy()5 when she was 74 and there appears to have been a lull in her geological correspondence. When Elizabeth was twenty-four she met Robert Gray', at that lime a branch inspector for the City of Glasgow Bank and one of the typical gentlemen-naturalists of that era, whose interest in ornithology had brought him to Girvan to study the birds of the Ayrshire coast. Much later, in 1869, he was to publish a joint paper with his falher-in- law on the birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire. Robert Gray also assisted Elizabeth in collecting her Girvan fossils, particularly from the easily reached Penkill and Balcletchie localities and together they made a substantial collection. They were married in 1856 and although living in Glasgow were able to continue their bird and fossil excursions by visiting Girvan each summer. The scientihc partnership was helpful to both, for Robert Gray became a keen fossil collector and from the evidence of Davidson's letlerbooks, possibly the instigator of their family fossil forays. It would appear from the numerous contributions that Robert Gray made to the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, that he was frequently travelling throughout Scotland and Elizabeth had to learn to skin and preserve the bird specimens required for their bird cabinet. In 1864, MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 173 Robert Gray read a paper in Glasgow on 'Observations in various branches of Natural History during the past summer", which referred to these fossils. The original Gray Collection was presented to the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University in 1866. Various short papers and accounts of exhibits based on the joint work of Mr & Mrs Gray were published in the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow between 1868 and 1878, several of them dealing with the fossils. It was shortly after the first of these, in 1868, that Professor John Young, one of the authors, instituted a class in geology for women at Glasgow University**, and presented a ticket to Mrs Gray. Apparently, she greatly enjoyed this opportunity - her only formal geological education - which provided some understanding as to the scientific value of the fossils she had collected' [Alice Gray MSS: 3]. A mixture of collecting, field observation and participation in local society activities is a predictable pattern of life for any young couple with a joint interest in natural history. However, it would appear that the Girvan fossils gradually became an absorbing pursuit. The growing family continued to spend its summer holidays at Girvan, presumably benefitting economically from family associations in the area, and each of the children were gradually introduced to assisting with gathering material for the collection. Alice Gray in writing about her sister Agnes [16 October 1937] recounts: Like all the other members of the family, she began to help our Mother in her childhood; at the age of 5 or 6 years she was a trusted worker. It was this same sister, who picked up the first Cothurnocystis ever found. In another letter [18 March 1924], written after the death of her mother, Alice states: We hope to carry on collecting as the work at Girvan has been our principal recreation ever since we can remember. It is not surprising that in such circumstances, with all the children occupied in finding material, the Gray collection increased rapidly. In retrospect it appears that Robert Gray may have shown good judgement when in 1874, he accepted a post at the head office of the Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh. Although he eventually became their chief cashier, his decision to move was of more significance in that his former employers the City of Glasgow Bank ceased business some 4 years later on 2 October 1878. The auditors reported that the Bank had lost its capital amounting to £1 million, the Reserve Fund of £450,000 and a further sum exceeding £5 million. The Directors, Manager and Secretary of the Bank were committed for trial and all were given periods of imprisonment. The Gray's involvement with natural history and local societies was still continued for, following the offices and role he had held with the Natural History Society of Glasgow, Robert Gray became prominent in the various societies of Edinburgh (see Obituary Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 15, 1887 and DNB 23: 19). In particular, after being appointed its Secretary, he was responsible for re-vitalising the Royal Physical Society, one of that city's oldest scientific bodies. About 1880, according to Alice Gray's account, Dr Traquair, Keeper of Geology at the Royal Scottish Museum had suggested to Mrs Gray that she should describe her own material and had offered to teach her to do such work. However, she declined his offer, feeling that she could not hope to equal the authority of those who had devoted their lives to investigating particular branches of palaeontology. Instead, she preferred to devote her own energies to provide such specialists with ample material to complete their descriptions and interesting specimens upon which they could conduct their research, since her real enthusiasm lay in discovering and collecting fossils. 174 R. J. CLEEVELY. R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS Galleryl No. 59, George Street, the home of Mrs Gray and her daughters from the 189()s until 1945. TTiis photograph shows the property in 1971 when the premises were occupied by the Dunfermline Building Society and the publishers T. & T. Clark (2nd floor). Alterations to the building had been made to provide the necessary separate access. No. 59 extends from the drain pipes (right centre) to a point above the doorway to the left of the Building Society's front. Reproduced with the permission of The Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland. Map section showing part of central Edinburgh to indicate the relationship of George St. within the city. Robert Gray died in February 1887 having made his own particular contribution to natural history with the pioneer work on Clyde ornithology The Birds of the West of Scotland published in 1871. Unfortunately, its companion volume The Birds of the East of Scotland which he was preparing with William Evans at the time of his death was never published. Although ranging widely over the whole of the West of .Scotland, the bulk of Gray's book provides the first genuine account of the birds of the Clyde area. The book has become a minor classic and one to which modern ornithologists are indebted. J. A. Gibson, to-day's specialist in Clyde ornithology, has written of the work (1981: 71): 'One of the masterly bird books of all time. As the years pass, being more and more highly regarded. . . . Gray brings the birds and bird-watching a century ago magically to life.' It was only after her husband's death that the Gray family began their long residence at what was to become the familiar address of 59. George Street . and which was occupied by various members until 1944 (see p. 210). Mrs Gray survived her husband by thirty- seven years and maintained an interest in the Girvan fossils throughout that time and resolutely collected further material with the help of her daughters for all but the last few months of her life'". In 1903, she was awarded the Murchison Geological Fund by the Geological Society for 'her great services to geological science". It was fitting that Professor Charles MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 175 Lapworth was the President to do this for in his address he was able to record 'that Mrs Gray had devoted the leisure hours of almost half a lifetime' to dealing with the fossils of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the Girvan district. Lapworth himself had accompanied her in the field, had benefitted from her collection and the precision of its accumulation, all of which he personally acknowledged in his address. (Proc. Q. JI.Geol. Soc, Lond., 59: xlvii-xlviii). In her letter of reply, Elizabeth Gray wrote that her work had given her 'lifelong pleasure" and particularly the knowledge that it had been of service to many geologists. She emphasized that initially, her husband had shared in the pursuit of the fossils and in working them out, and greatly regretted that he too could not share her satisfaction in the recognition of their joint work. Mrs Gray was elected an Honorary member of the Geological Society of Glasgow, where she was regarded as the first and foremost of all the 'Silurian' workers (MacNair & Mort, 1908: 122); she also became a Fellow of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Mrs Gray died of heart failure on 11 February 1924 following six days of acute bronchitis and within six weeks of her ninety-third birthday, her elder daughter Mary died the following week and in both death certificates bronchitis is given as the major cause. Alice Gray writing to Dr F. A. Bather about her mother shortly afterwards wrote {24 February 1924): The last day she was downstairs she looked over some fossils that she thought it might interest you to see . . . they were packed up ... a letter was drafted & she was to write it next day. 1 now enclose a copy of it and hope to post the box of fossils tomorrow. 3. THE GRAY COLLECTION (i) Collecting Methods The methods adopted in collecting have been described in detail by Alice Gray (Mss p. 5). From the quarrying tools shown in the available photographs it would appear that substantial digging operations were often undertaken. Although Alice has written: 'that no rock was ever taken down needlessly and that every piece of rock was carefully broken up and if a specimen was not found immediately, examined to the last fragment.' Every effort was made to ensure that part & counterpart were kept together, particularly after several of the specialists who had utilised the collection had emphasized this point (see letters of Bather, 14 March 1900 & 31 July 1900). Alice Gray commented that they considered that: 'a fossil without its counterpart was little better than half a fossil" and if loose specimens were picked up, time was often spent searching for its other part. It may be that Bather's comment to Mrs Gray on the need for having both parts had influenced their practice, since in his view: 'having only one side merely raises the question without affording the means of settling it!' Certainly, the earlier descriptions based on Gray material do not contain many examples of counterparts (see Nicholson & Etheridge, 1878-80, in which only 5% of the trilobites described fall into this category). In another letter. Bather (14 March 1900) comments on the particular value of specimens of starfish, where with impressions of 'both sides' available, excellent examples could be obtained in contrast to the material described previously by those authors. Every specimen found was, at once, firmly wrapped up in paper and placed into a bag, or vasculum. In the evening, the day's work was not considered to be finished until that day's collection had been packed into small parcels and labelled with a locality. When the material was back in their home, the specimens were trimmed by means of fine chisels, or 176 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND \. HOWELLS f^.Bll. ^^ 1. Alice & Agnes Gray at Threave Glen, below the farmhouse at South Threave in 1922. 2. TTie family at the Starfish Bed, Lady Burn in October, 1922; from left to right: an unknown friend. Agnes, Mary, Mrs Gray, and Alice. 3. Alice & Agnes Gray at a roadside quarry, Balciatchie in October 1922. a saw, so that space could be saved. All these trimmings were examined further in the search for additional specimens; [ — in a letter to Bather (7 November 1907) she asks for the return of any trimmings from a specimen of Cydocystoides he had agreed to develop for her]. Later letters of Alice Gray (4 May 1937) and her sister Edith (4 August 1942) mention boxes of un-examined material that they had been unable to process; the latter asks the BMNH for help in dealing with this material, pointing out that her sister had 'often come across unknown treasures on splitting stones ... in the house". Subsequently, each separate piece was then labelled with its locality and horizon — often small printed tickets were used — , before the specimens were classifed and placed in cabinets, or stored temporarily in boxes. Yet, for some reason, Mrs Gray had decided not to resort to numbering her specimens. There is no indication why such normal practice was not adopted and one can only assume that her phenomenal memory made MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 1 77 this un-necessary. Evidence of her amazing recall of individual specimens is provided by several letters (to Bather: 16 April 1904, 12 March 1914, 2 August 1915; to Lapworth: 20 November 1898, 30 September 1919) when she enquired after particular specimens that they had not returned after their research, by describing distinctive features shown by each of these specimens, which frequently enabled them to be recognised. Another aspect of this, is the family's involvement with the collection through their use of 'pet names' for particular forms e.g. 'the boot' was a reference to Cothumocystis (8 November 1911); 'the hat & feather' (11 August 1915); 'plated slugs' (4 May 1937); 'trumpet' for the columella of a gastropod (6 May 1937). Elizabeth Gray had undoubtedly been encouraged by one of her advisers, or companions to adopt meticulous methods in her collecting. It is possible that since such information was so critical for Lapworth's research on the succession in Girvan, that he was responsible for instilling the need for such precision. As a result the collection, in addition to being relatively unique and one of the few available from the richly fossiliferous deposits of that district, was scientifically reliable. Lapworth and Reed took pains to praise Mrs Gray for this aspect of her collection arising from her thoroughness. Much later, Lapworth (10 June 1914) when asked to advise over the value of the trilobites stressed that: It was the very first collection in which the exact localities and horizons of every individual fossil . . . was written down at the time of collection . . . Reed (23 February 1909 and 1909: 220) emphasized the value of having material, which enabled him to describe things 'with much more minuteness' and also that the regular visits and careful collecting over so many years enabled him to make conclusions as to the relative abundance of the taxa occurring at the various localities. Spencer (1914: 2) also echoed earlier remarks as to the value of having the counterparts, for . . . 'the casts are usually much easier to interpret than the specimens preserved in original calcite". After each Gray collection had been acquired by an institution, the family had immediately renewed their collecting activities during their annual summer and autumn visits to Girvan. In 1922, erect of figure and with sight undimmed, Mrs Gray was photographed at all her favourite collecting spots (Balcletchie, Whitehouse Bay, the Starfish Bed, Thraive Glen, Mulloch Hill, Woodland Point) and a last visit was even made in September 1923 at the age of ninety-two. During her almost seventy years of field collecting Mrs Gray had seen localities come and go; some became exhausted, others became overgrown, or unworkable in other ways, or, as in the case of two limestone quarries Craighead & Tramitchell commercialised beyond recognition so that the fossils were lost in the processing. The keeness of their collecting is demonstrated by an annotation made by Alice Gray (Sheet LXVI NW) concerning the locality 'Bougang': In 19(K), when my mother, her brother and I went there the quarry was almost full of water. Having been forewarned by Dr. Home, we took a thin rope with us. It was then attached to me, held by my uncle and lying flat on the brink, I was just able to reach down and quarry stone to hand up to my mother to break up. The stretch of time between 1855 and 1936 is a long one and it is safe to say that the work . . . during that period has been carried on in the same way . . . (Alice Gray, letter 4th May 1937). After Mrs Gray's death, the surviving daughters had made the annual pilgrimage to continue their mother's work, — even during the difficult years of the Second World War. From her letters, it would seem that the summer of 1940 was the last occasion they had 178 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS made any real finds, when Alice recorded (15 June 1941) that their local driver had promised to do his best to overcome the petrol shortage 'rather than see us beat". Eight months later Alice died and her surviving sister Edith then wrote: I fear the continuity of collecting must now stop, as I have not my sister's scientific knowledge and was only her helper. A family tradition from the summer of 1855 to September 1941 , had ended after eighty- six years! (ii) Mrs Gray's Localities The first reference to the Gray's Girvan localities was that made by Mr J. Young (TD notebook 25 January 1865) which tells of the Grays collecting from a site they had newly opened near Penkill farm. Robert Gray adds further details in his own letter to Davidson (29 July 1865) and later (17 September) refers to Balclelchie. Craighead, and Penkill". Davidson mentioned each of these in his monograph on the brachiopods. Another early indication of Mrs Gray's localities is obtained from a list she drafted for Lapworth's approval (see Gray Correspondence, Vol. I, No. I), litis is also accompanied by the draft of his covering letter which suggests that the information is provided for Thomas Davidson's work on the brachiopods and also indicates their uncertainty as to the precise age of the fossils. Dear Mrs Gray. Nuneaton Am writing this in train. Would have answered your former note but not a moment for anything, just now — even sleep! The above list is now correct. I should recommend you to ask Mr Davidson to use I.landeilo — not Upper Llandeilo. — We don't know what Upper Llandeilo is just now. The beds are Llandeilo but that is all we can be sure about. Will write whenever I've a moment. Kindest regards to all Kindly excuse calligraphy. Will post this at Atherstone Yours very sincerely Chas. Lapworth P.S. Please be careful about Thraive Dyke bed. and sec that fossils from true Starfish Bed arc not mixed with the Mcristclla beds. The former are Upper Bala. The latter are Lower Llandovery. The record of a letter from Lapworth (24 February 1882) in the Davidson notebooks dates this list and confirms the reason for its compilation. The lengthy faunal list that Mrs Gray provided later for inclusion in the memoir published by Peach & Home (1899) contains more localities, while Nicholson & Etheridge (1880: 7) had referred to forty localities in the Girvan district (see Appendix 4 for L,ist of Gray localities)'^. Owens (1973: 3) pointed out that the main drawback is that all these original sites are only vaguely localized and other recent workers (see Howells, 1982; Harper, 1984: 7) have shown that these sites have often been confused, joined, or generally misunderstood by the specialists describing the Gray Collection and subsequent collectors. Full detailed lists of the localities for particular fossils have been provided in the monographic studies made by Williams, 1962; Howells, 1982; Harper, 1982; and Paul, 1984, who have all listed them under the relevant stratigraphic formation. The first Gray collections were undoubtedly obtained from local sites around Girvan Ji MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 1 79 within walking distance of the home of their relatives. It must have taken at least an hour to reach Drummuck, where many of the specimens described hy Nicholson & Etheridge were found. Horse and carriage, and later rail were the only transport available for longer journeys; later Alice Gray refers to their use of a hired car (see letters to W. N. Edwards c. 1941 ). The lack of material from rich fossiliferous sites in the Stinchar Valley, suggests that Mrs Gray did not venture into that area; there is only one trilobite from Aldons [the unique harpid mentioned by Reed, 190.^], little from the highly fossiliferous basal Superstes Mudstones, and only two pygidia of the trilobite Pliomerella craigensis (Reed, 1906) in her collection from the enormously rich Auchensoul Quarry. She is unlikely to have visited any of these sites without coming away with abundant material. There is also only a handful of specimens from the localities of Benan Burn. Doularg, Minuntion and Tormitchell, all of which were know to Lapworth (1882)". It is possible that the Gray family were quite satisfied to concentrate on the places that they knew and had always exploited. There was some sense in this for it is now known that the Gray family's locality 'Bargany Pond Burn' was not that of other collectors, but a quite different locality that they had discovered as a result of following and mis-interpreting directions to the original site. Mrs Gray never recorded her localities on any map, but in 1937 Alice Gray endeavoured to record them all from memory on six-inch Ordnance Survey maps, which she presented to the BMNH. In her letter to W. N. Edwards (4 May 1937) she wrote: ... I found that the present generation of geologists, who have worked in the Girvan district, are not so well acquainted with some of the localities as we are . . . She provided the set of maps'** marked with all the localities from which my mother collected her fossils ... in case of any doubt or dispute. It would appear from her letter that comment by current geologists over Lapworth's account of the exposure of a particular bed had prompted this action for Alice Gray continued: Professor Lapworth was right and to-day's geologists wrong! We worked at the bed in question before to-day's geologists were born and for many years it has been overgrown'^. However, despite her own assurance, it would appear that at times her memory was at fault, or more likely, that she was unfamiliar with reading maps to establish the sites of localities, for several of those marked are quite impossible for the horizons of the material (see Howells, 1972: 4, for several instances of this). Her annotations to the maps indicate that she had considerable uncertainty: see sheet LVI NW where several localities are marked 'to the best of my recollection' and Sheet LVI SE where she has written against the locality 'Auchensoul': on the Auchensoul Burn somewhere — I myself was never there! Harper (1984: 7) has provided a method for differentiating between the localities 'Drummuck', 'South Thraive', 'Starfish Bed' and 'Cliff Section' as used by the Gray family and subsequently treated as one by Reed. Howells (1982: 3) has shown how to distinguish specimens obtained from several sites denoted as 'Mulloch Hill', the general area from which they were collected, on the basis of their lithology and differences in 180 R. J. CLEEVELV. R. P. TRIPP ANfJ Y. MOWELLS weathering. A photograph in the Gray Album of the three sea stacks at Whitehouse Bay, enabled Ingham to identify the site despite its now being worked out. (iii) The use and users of the Gray Collections A glance at the accompanying bibliography will reveal the principal users of the material that Mrs Gray and her family had collected. These were relatively few and somewhat alarmingly, most were essentially institution-based palaeontologists. Only Lapworth had any real interest in, or knowledge of the Girvan district and of the others perhaps only Davidson & Nicholson (and later Spencer) had any real field experience, consequently mistakes were made in naming taxa and determing relationships and age. Comparison of Mrs Gray's relationship with the various users of her collection from the few surviving letters and other records indicates that, in many respects, the degree of affability was governed by the extent and speed with which these palaeontologists fulfilled her goals for the determination and description of the fossils. Although obviously any personal, rather than just scientific acquaintance, affected the level. One of Mrs Gray's earliest correspondents was Thomas Davidson'*, who was probably the first specialist worker to utilise her material when describing several new species from her collection in his monograph on the British Fossil Brachiopoda (1866-71 ). Alice Gray, in her biographical Mss states: 'as far back as . . . 1860, she was in correspondence with Thomas Davidson'. This is unlikely, for as Mrs Gray herself apparently wrote in a later letter to Davidson (8th April 1882): 'I may mention that it was in 1863, I first collected fossils . . .' and in even later letters to Dr Bather (27 March 1913 & 15 October 1914) this period is indicated! There is undoubtedly some confusion as to the time the collection was begun, for in other letters Alice Gray refers (24 January and 4 May 1937) to 1855 as being the year that the family custom of collecting fossils at Girvan was begun by her mother, in fact this would be the year that she met her husband! It is possible that Mrs Gray's comment quoted above referred to the time that she began to collect in a more precise manner, for some of the Hunterian material was undoubtedly collected earlier. (a) Thomas Davidson (1817-1885) Davidson was born in Edinburgh (17 May 1817), the son of a wealthy Scottish landowner, but was educated in Europe. His inclination for the fine arts was encouraged through attending classes in Paris, while his interest in natural history was influenced by access to the various institutions and the guidance of Constant Prevost'^ in accumulating a collection of geological specimens from the Paris Basin. This new interest in geology was maintained by his attending lectures in Britain, surveying in Scotland and sub- sequent field work throughout Europe. After making the acquaintance of l.eopold von Buch"* during a visit to Italy in 1837, Davidson was persuaded to undertake a comprehensive study of both living and fossil Brachiopoda. As a man with private means he was able to devote much of his time to such research in his own home, first in London and subsequently at various places in Brighton. Davidson's artistic abilities enabled him to overcome one of the main problems in dealing with a wealth of material and ensuring its recognition. His working methods have been described elsewhere (Cocks. 1978; Mancenido & Cocks, 1986) but the letterbooks demonstrate that Davidson endeavoured to just concentrate on particular taxa at any one time. For that period, his correspondence is only with other interested parties and solely devoted to that subject until it had been resolved. Davidson's role and scientific achievements were widely acknowledged during his lifetime by numerous society awards. Professor Young (26 October 1882) had recognised that it was Davidson's enthusiasm which encouraged everyone to assist in the provision of material, particularly that from the strata of 'Dear Auld Scotland'!''' MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 181 (S)-(^-^ A page from Davidson's notebook showing his notes on Triplesia grayii and other specimens borrowed from the Gray collection during the preparation of his monograph; Mss held by the Brachiopod section. Department of Palaeontology, BMNH. Davidson's notebooks"", preserved in the Brachiopod section of the Department of Palaeontology, [for further description see Cocks, 1978: 4) contain some indication of his use of her material in the preparation of his monograph, through the annotations he made to the drawings of the specimens he had borrowed, but give no clear evidence of the dates. However, another series of letterbooks preserved in the Palaeontology Library, in which Davidson listed all his correspondence and appointments, provides definite evidence concerning his collaboration with Mrs Gray during the period between 182 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANDY. HOWELLS 1867-1884 and an idea as to the frequency of their communications. These references also indicate, not surprisingly, that "Mr." John Young"' provided the introduction through his association with Robert Gray at the Natural History Society of Glasgow. They also demonstrate that, initially. Robert Gray himself, was also more directly involved in collecting the fossils than had been thought. It was in January 1865. that Young informed Davidson of the Gray Collection in which ". . . many of the Brachiopoda were in a fairish state of preservation . . . only wanting a little trimming & cleaning ... to make them worthy of figuring." Robert Gray confirmed his readiness to let Davidson examine all their Girvan brachiopods (22 July 1865) and gave an account of his activities in opening up various exposures to obtain the fossils (e.g. Penkill: 29 July & 17 September). The promised box of specimens arrived on 13 September and Davidson promptly returned them a month later. This pattern was repeated in subsequent years after the Grays had returned from their summer forays to Girvan and. at that time, they willingly agreed to Davidson having any duplicate specimens he required and undertook to search for anything else he needed. Virtually all the references to this correspondence record the receipt, or despatch of specimens. The year 1882 was particularly busy as Davidson borrowed many of the brachiopods in the Gray collection in a series of Lots sent over a period of four months, during the preparation of the Supplements to his Monograph. Contrary to Alice Gray's assertion, the first letter written by Mrs Gray appears to be that of 7 October 1867. when from Girvan, she sent a complete specimen of the Triplesia that was eventually named after her. Left: Professor H. A. Nicholson. FRS (1844-1X99) photograph in Palaeontology Library Archives, BMNH. Rif;hl: Thomas Davidson (1847-1885) photograph in Challenger Expedition Archives held by the Mineralogy Library, BMNH. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 183 Thomas Davidson very probably set the pattern by which Mrs Gray subsequently judged everyone else, while his research on the Palaeozoic brachiopods may also have led to Mrs Gray devoting her life to the acquisition of the Girvan fossils. His prompt treatment of the various consignments sent for examination in the preparation of the Palaeontographical Society monograph on the Brachiopoda, gave her little anxiety; the material was always sent back within a few months and usually a few weeks and occasionally within days. The inclusion of several rare forms in the earlier samples encouraged the Gray family to search for other examples e.g. Triplesia Grayi. As pointed out above, initially Mrs Gray — or very probably her husband — was also far less possessive over the material and their collecting activities were undertaken to provide the specimens that might be of assistance to Davidson. The fact that he utilised their observations also added to their pleasure and gave a feeling of involvement with the science. Impressed by the quality of Davidson's figures, Mrs Gray promised to supply him with a set of duplicates. She repeated this promise frequently, until, in 1884, it was eventually fulfilled and their correspondence apparently ended for there is no further reference to her in his letterbooks. In view of her pleasure with Davidson's work and thoroughness, it is odd that Mrs Gray did not preserve many of his letters - only a single example has survived and that is not really of any consquence! The protracted promises about duplicates made by Mrs Gray suggest that her acquisitiveness — even at that early stage — was far stronger than any obligation she may have felt towards him. It is interesting to note that although Davidson made frequent visits to Scotland and embarked on occasional field trips, he seldom visited the Gray family. (b) Charles Lapworth (1842-1920)" In 1873, — a few years after Mrs Gray's introduction to Davidson and the subject of geology, — Charles Lapworth began work in the Girvan District. Mrs Gray assisted in his exploration of the area and provided many of the fossils cited in his faunal lists and upon which his work of correlation was based. Often at Lapworth's instigation, her collecting forays were in search of particular taxa that he predicted, or expected careful collecting should reveal, as occurring at certain horizons. References in later letters indicate that their association was enjoyable: Those were happy days (in spite of the hard work) when the geology of the Girvan district was being worked out . . . and your family put in such fine work among the fossils; all of which was of the greatest service to myself then; and to the Geological Survey and Geological science in general ever since. (Lapworth, 12 February 1917) In other letters there are frequent reference to the 'dear old Girvan land' and Lapworth's interest in particular beds. (T. Davidson: 26 October 1882). Lapworth's early life was spent in the Home Counties, born at Faringdon, educated in Buckland and then becoming a pupil teacher at his own school, before entering a training college at Culham, near Oxford. In 1864, he chose to take an appointment at Galashiels in the Border country and his first paper 'On the Silurian Rocks of Galashiels' was read to the Geological Society in 1870. After being appointed to Madras College, St Andrews, he became friends with Professor H. A. Nicholson and D'Arcy Thompson. Soon after, he published ( 1879) the paper in which he founded the Ordovician System and which has been considered to be a masterpiece of moderation and persuasive writing. In 1881, he was appointed to the newly established chair of Geology at Mason College (now Birmingham University), and this enabled him to undertake several seasons of arduous field work, but his health suffered under the strain. He was able to complete a paper on 'The Girvan Succession' (1882), in which he made use of Mrs Gray's collection and also 184 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS confirmed the zonal value of graptolites which he had established in his eadier paper on the Moffat Series (1878). In due course, after considerable argument, the officers of the Geological Survey adopted his structural interpretation in the preparation of their memoir on the Southern Uplands (Peach & Home. 1899); Mrs Gray's collection was also the basis for several of the lists given in this work. Lapworth went on to investigate the Northwest Highlands and his work helped to resolve the controversy over the structure of this area. In the last phase of his career, he investigated the rocks around Birmingham, in particular the Cambrian of the Lickey Hills. Although his field ability and interpretative insight enabled Lapworth to make significant contributions to British structural geology, official recognition of his achieve- ments has also emphasized the influence made by his teaching concluding that his original ideas had fertilised the research of generations of geologists (1899; xl; Watts, 1939; 277). His main characteristic was an intense mental and bodily energy, which were so great that they frequently overtaxed his health. A burning enthusiasm to discover the truth and a delight in overcoming obstacles contributed to this driving force. Having made a substantial contribution to British Geology, he died on 13 March 1920 after another long illness. Undoubtedly, Mrs Gray"s contact with Charles Lapworth was conducted on a friendlier level than most of her other correspondence. Their letters to one another are much longer and frequently mention other personal matters. On each occasion that she considered selling her collection to the British Museum, Mrs Gray sought advice from Lapworth"'. He, in turn, went to a considerable amount of trouble to assist her and sent a lengthy letter outlining all the possibilities but concluded with a suggestion as to the course she should follow. Yet, despite their good relationship, when there were problems over her specimens, Mrs Gray was still capable of chasing him for missing material. Their last surviving letters concern Lapworth"s embarassment at the loss of several graptolites over the years, probably occurring during the transfer of his Department into new premises'^. It would seem that Lapworth was also involved in Davidson's later arrangements to use the Gray Collection, for he endeavoured to co-operate with Davidson's revision by completing his own contribution on the geological succession occurring in the Girvan district (see TD: 24 February 1882). Lapworth also wrote to Davidson (TD; 27 Febuary 1882) assuring him over certain specimens; T doubt not that Mrs Gray is right in her locality'. Mrs Gray repeated this assurance herself (TD; 2 March 1882), when she had; . . . much pleasure in sending the rest of the Brachiopods Horizon by Horizon according to Prof. Lapworth's work. You may feel assured I shall be the most particular with respect to the localities of all the specimens I send you . . . and the plan you have chosen . . . will I think, render mistakes impossible Yet, a number of letters during September and October 1882 concern her finding a specimen of Triplesia grayi at the locality of Minuntion, which Mrs Gray finally admits was a mistake (TD; 26 October 1882). Within a few months, Davidson had dealt with much of the material, for Professor Lapworth wrote (TD; 25 May 1882) to congratulate him on the 'magnificient table of Mrs Gray's shells' and declared; 'it is the most brilliant useful bit of work from another palaeontologist that has ever fell to my assistance & benefit". According to later entries, Davidson had completed his examination of the Gray material by the end of 1882; even in June, Lapworth had written; 'I was certainly amazed at the work you had done during the past 5 weeks." MRS ELIZABETH GRAY (c) H. A. Nicholson and R. Etheridge. Jnr 185 The three fascicules of the first major monograph (1878-80) on the fossils of the Girvan district by H. A. Nicholson and R. Etheridge " were also largely based upon material in the 'Gray Collection' as is indicated by the title of the work. The Preface acknowledged their debt for 'the free and uncontrolled use of her cabinet' and 'for providing the most complete series of the . . . fossils of Ayrshire". Subsequent collecting by Mrs Gray in the succeeding summer seasons, often at new localities, led to description of the additional material in a further fascicule (see Benton, 1979: 7). It is not quite clear, how Nicholson & Etheridge became aware of the Gray collection, but a clue is provided by their reference to her father's collection being well known to all Scottish geologists (see p. 172) and a considerable number of the species are named after members of the family"''. However, none of their correspondence has survived and the only evidence for a visit to Mrs Gray is provided in a letter by Etheridge to Davidson (TD: 22 November 1881) reporting that he had borrowed some brachiopods, which he felt Davidson should also examine. Although, in their monograph, it is mentioned (1878: p.vi) that: 'a visit to the ground in person has resulted ... in giving us a direct knowledge of the rocks.' ^J^'^::- PI, lit XII. /!£i> Left: Original figures of Proems girvanensis published by Nicholson & Etheridge (1880) in Silurian Fossils of the Girvan District in Ayrshire, pi. XII, figs. 7, 8 & 9. Right: Lectotype of Paraproetus girvanensis (N. & E.). BMNH In. 21926 x 1, Upper Ordovician, Ardmillan Series, Drummuck Group Mudstoncs, Drummuck, Mrs R. Gray Coll'n. 1920. Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844-1899) had been appointed to the chair of Natural History at St Andrews in 1875 and later, in 1882, became Professor at Aberdeen. His palaeontological work ranged over most fossil invertebrate phyla and remains of fundamental taxonomic importance; he specialized in stromatoporoids and corals (see Benton 1979: iii-v; Cleevely, 1983: 214). Benton (ibid: iii) established that Nicholson 186 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS was one of the earliest workers to use thin sections for determining internal structures of bryozoans and corals and to then utilise this information for taxonomic work. Since it is thought that Nicholson cut many of the sections himself, we can only assume that the Gray material was dealt with at St Andrews. His collaborator. Robert Etheridge. Jnr (1847-1920) had begun his career as a held geologist in Australia with the Geological Survey of Victoria. When this organisation was disbanded in 1873, he returned to the U.K. joining the Geological Survey of Scotland. At the time of his work with Nicholson. Etheridge had been appointed to the staff of the British Museum (Natural History) and both father and son were engaged in dealing with the transfer of the collections from Bloomsbury to South Kensington. He worked principally on Palaeozoic invertebrate fossils. Subsequently, in 1887. Etheridge returned to Australia, holding several Survey and Museum appointments, before becoming the Director of the Australian Museum, Sydney in 1917 (see Rec. Aust. Mus. 15: 1-27. 1926). Their Girvan publication was supported by a grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in the Preface of the first Fascicule, the two authors also recorded their gratitude to Robert Gray for providing additional financial help towards publication (see p. vi). Later, in a letter (TD: 19 November 1881) Mrs Gray reported that progress on 'Nicholson's Ayrshire work' had stopped owing to lack of a further grant from the Royal Society [of Edinburgh]. The following year, in another letter (TD: 25 March 1882) Mrs Gray expressed her obligation to Davidson for having 'worked out' her Girvan material, unlike Nicholson & Etheridge, who had decided not to continue. Mrs Gray seems to have gradually become disenchanted with the progress of their monograph and its eventual abandonment caused her to seek the help of other specialists to deal with the undescribed mollusca. Both Henry Woodward"^ and his friends Professor T. Rupert Jones'^ provided notes to be used in the second fascicule (see pp. 211. 216) and as a result were later, briefly involved again. Woodward (1885) described two specimens collected by Mrs Gray at Left: Professor Charles Lapworth (1842-1920) portrait in Geol. Mag., 1901. Dec. IV. Vol.8: opp. p. 289. Right: F. R. Cowper Reed (1869-1946) photograph in Palaeontology Library Archives, BMNH. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 187 Thraive and named a new chiton after her in recognition of her contributions to palaeontology; this species Helininthochiton Grayiae has since been recognised as the type species of the genus Sepiemchiton Bergenhayn (see Rolfe, 1981). T. R. Jones dealt with several of her specimens of Ostracoda in later papers (1886, 1893a, ft). (d) F. R. Cowper Reed (\i(,9-\9A€) It would appear that Bather was responsible for suggesting that Reed should deal with Mrs Gray's trilobites, following Nicholson's reluctance to continue"''. Reed later succeeded Davidson in dealing with her brachiopods and the high quality of his revision of these Palaeozoic fossils is reflected in its relevance and acceptance to-day. A letter from Mrs Gray (c. Feb. 1911) concerning her reluctance to allow the use of the Girvan material by any researcher, mentions his involvement. Her reaction to the use of 'her specimens' by O. T. Jones without 'her permission', prompted a stream of letters to various geologists. By way of explanation, Mrs Gray argued that since the specimens 'were never trusted to him [O. T. Jones] ... for examination' she should refuse her consent to any proposal that might rob Reed's future work of 'some of its interest' — by this we infer she meant the chance of describing new taxa. Reed spent the greater part of his life in Cambridge, arriving as an undergraduate in 1888, then later obtaining an appointment as an Assistant to the Woodwardian Professor of Geology in 1892. He retained that post, essentially curatorial, for a further twenty-five years while T. McKenny Hughes held that Chair. Reed's doctoral thesis (? 1890) was on volcanic intrusives, and he received the Sedgwick Prize for work on the geological history of the rivers of East Yorkshire. But, after writing on the geology of the Fishguard district (1895), Reed appears to have concentrated on palaeontology. According to A. G. Brighton (pers. commun.) his chief duties as assistant were the curation of the collections at the Sedgwick Museum. When the Chair became vacant c. 1917, Reed was so disappointed at J. E. Man's appointment that having independent means, he relinquished all his official duties with the Sedgwick, but maintained his room for research work. It was through earnings from his research and descriptive work, mainly undertaken for the Geological Survey of India, that Reed was able to augment his private income. Consequently, although he was primarily concerned with Palaeozoic fossils, in such circumstances, he did not hesitate to investigate much younger faunas. As a result. Reed covered a very wide field, dealing with many groups of invertebrates, but was especially interested in the brachiopods and trilobites. He frequently sought advice from his contemporaries, while correspondence with Dr Bather from 1904-1925, shows that they collaborated in describing and obtaining foreign echinoderm material""'. During his life. Reed made numerous journeys overseas, mainly visiting countries forming part of the British Empire in collaboration with his work for the Colonial Survey and leading to the publication of a textbook The Geology of the British Empire (1921). Immersed in his work. Reed gave the impression that he lead a somewhat solitary existence, e.g. James Begg considered him to be a recluse. Although married but with no children, it may be that his wife's habit of kitting him out each day with a spare pair of socks (carried in a binocolar case) and his practice of arriving and leaving his room in the Museum without seeing anyone, contributed to this view. His use and knowledge of geological literature was extensive; it is said that although he was seldom seen in the Geological Society's library, he used and borrowed more of their books than anyone else. Over the years Reed produced a steady stream of papers describing Girvan fossils, but it would appear that he never visited the area. In a letter to Mrs Gray (23 February 1909) following the completion of a paper on hyolithids, he commented that her material had enabled him to describe new species 'with much more minuteness than is generally possible' and that the meagre accounts of other British species made comparison very 188 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS irritating! He quickly dealt with all material, seldom developed a specimen and relied upon his memory and previous publications; the ready availability of his own first rate artist, who was experienced in presenting the essential features of any specimen contributed to his quick turnover. Once he had "retired'. Reed's time was solely devoted to such research. Inevitably, it was this fast rate of progress that led, in 1911 (see p. 198), to Mrs Gray asking Reed to undertake the description of her cystids, after experiencing years of exasperation with Bathers promises and the protracted loan of her material. However, even Reed took time dealing with her specimens when preparing his various contributions for his Palaeontogaphical Society monograph on the Girvan Trilobites (1903-35). Apparently, Mrs Gray had such a good impression of Reed, that in 1917, when his position at Cambridge lapsed, she sought Lapworth's help to obtain another post for him. Lapworth readily appreciated his palaeontological work and promised to bear him in mind, musing that were he a millionaire Reed would be just the man to pay for as the first Professor, researcher and lecturer in palaeontology in Britain (20 November 1917). (e) Other Users The problem of determining the starfish specimens is frequently mentioned in surviving Gray correspondence. Nicholson & Etheridge (1880: 318) stated that her first starfish specimens were found in 1879 at Thraive Glen. Initially, J. R. Gregory^' had undertaken to deal with them, but upon leaving the BMNH in 1899 for a post in Melbourne he returned everything to Mrs Gray (19 December 1899), suggesting that he would have preferred to have dealt with a larger series in order to distinguish their specific characters. Shortly after, Charles Schuchert then at the U.S. National Museum, Washington used casts of new Gray material provided by Bather, which were far better than those originally figured by Nicholson & Etheridge. In 1908, after Mrs Gray had again raised the matter. Bather (1 December 1908) suggested the names of W. K. Spencer (see below), a school inspector, and Dr F. Schondorf of Hannover, but admitted that he did not have sufficient confidence in Spencer's ability to tackle the difficult Palaeozoic forms. Schuchert. after having moved to the Peabody Museum, Yale University, wrote (31 March 1911) that museum duties at Washington had prevented him from producing a monograph on the Palaeozoic starfish, but he now hoped to complete a descriptive list of their taxa'~. The same year, following the cystid confrontation"". Bather also had occasion to amend his opinion of Spencer's competence (8 April 1911) and considered that this 'seemed the best chance of getting the work accomplished" and it was arranged for Mrs Gray's material to be sent to the BMNH on his behalf. William Kingdon Spencer (1878-1955). On completing his degree, he had served as demonstrator/lecturer at Oxford in 1903, and it was during this period he first became interested in Palaeozoic echinoderms. Shortly after his marriage, and then lecturing at Bangor, Spencer joined the Board of Education as an Inspector of Schools in 1904. and was eventually appointed as Inspector for East Suffolk (1914-38), becoming a significant figure in the world of education through his methods and schemes. His research on Palaeozoic and Cretaceous starfishes was carried out during his leisure and consequently, he had little opportunity for fieldwork. Spencer's ingenuity in preparing the natural casts of the Palaeozoic material contributed to the success which enabled him to become a world authority"''. On being approached to deal with the Gray material, Spencer responded immediately (15 May 1911) and gave his opinion that the valuable Gray collection was: 'in many respects the best collection of Palaeozoic Asteroids in existence.' A few years later, Mrs Gray wrote to Bather (27 March 1913) reporting that the Palacontographical Society had MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 189 m^ W. K. Spencer, FRS. FGS (1878-1955) portrait I in Biogr. Mem. Fell. Rov. Soc, London, 2, 1956: opp. p. 291. accepted Spencer's monograph on British Palaeozoic Asteroidea and exclaimed: "I owe you a debt of gratitude for introducing him to me." Whether Mrs Gray remained pleased is doubtful, for Spencer emulated his sponsor and never completed the monograph, although various parts were published between 1914—1940. Yet, he did fulfil his original promise to Mrs Gray by producing a general paper to provide due recognition of her contribution to science (Spencer, 1929). From correspondence with Bather, it would appear that much of Spencer's work was achieved by means of casts made from the Gray material held at the BMNH, only ocasionally did he find it necessary to see and ask for the originals (see FAB file: 16 September 1915, 12 October 1916). Mrs. J. Longstaff (nee Donald) (1855-1935). Jane Donald was encouraged to undertake research on Palaeozoic gastropods by J. G. Goodchild (1844-1906) of the Geological Survey, who had incidentally provided Dr Bather with Mrs Gray's address in 1892. L. R. Cox, in her obituary notice (Q.J.G.S. 91: xcvii-xcviii), wrote that 'possessing the necessary means of leisure she was able to carry out her work in a painstaking manner' and after marrying the entomologist Dr George Blundell Longstaff in 1906, she was still able to find time to continue. Consequently, in response to another plea from Mrs Gray (10 April 1904), Bather had earlier provided the name of Jane Donald as the only possible person in the country who could work on her large collection of Gastropoda, but again expressed doubts because her previous work, although excellent, had been limited to a few genera ( 1 1 April 1904). He also commented that inducements for palaeontological work were not very great causing the few, who did undertake it for love, to be overburdened. Mrs Gray reported that Miss Donald was already working on her Murchisonia specimens. In fact, she had already published several other papers prior to this, all mentioning the Girvan material. This association was also maintained after her marriage and move south to Sussex and then on to various places in Surrey, in fact lasting until 1924, when Mrs Longstaff was 190 R.J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS nearly 70. Many of her papers dealt solely with material in 'the magnificient Gray Collection'. Following Mrs Gray's death, she wrote: I shall often think of the pleasant visits I paid . . . she always gave me such a hearty welcome. . . . she has made the most wonderful collection . . . and being in the British Museum it forms a grand memorial of her. Many of her Girvan taxa were only represented by a few specimens, most were crushed, some being founded on unique specimens, while some features that Jane Donald described now appear to be questionable (see Brookes Knight, 1941: 298). Wheelton H. Hind (186O-1920)-'\ Apart from a letter of J. Home's to Mrs Gray there is no evidence as to how Wheelton Hind became involved in describing the bivalves from Girvan. However, MacNair & Mort (1908: 138) mention his name in discussing the wide influence of John Young; since they also refer to Hind's palaeontological work elsewhere, and list his election as an Honorary member in 1909, it must be assumed that Hind had a close link with the Geological Society of Glasgow. Home's letter (9 January 1908) informed Mrs Gray that Hind had virtually completed his examination of her Girvan material and suggested that the Royal Society of Edinburgh should publish the results. This idea was followed (Hind, 1910) and in his introduction, the author declared that: the task of . . . determining the fine series of lamellibranchs collected by Mrs Gray . . . has been no light one! The number of specimens which I could refer to no known species is comparatively large. Hind went on to remark that he had been compelled to describe new taxa on single specimens. The indifferent preservation of this material undoubtedly contributed to his difficulty, for comment by subsequent workers frequently alludes to this lack of features e.g. 'hinge not visible', 'really unrecognisable!', only a shape'. In retrospect. Hind was less successful in dealing with this Lower Palaeozoic material, and confused matters by ascribing specimens from quite different ages and horizons to the same species e.g. Goniophora antiqua (p. 539). Various letters in the Gray Correspondence relate to material that Dr Hind had borrowed, shortly before his death, for comparison with specimens in the BMNH and which Bather had to 'unearth' for return. Thomas Henry Withers (1883-1953)''*'. Stearn (1981: 240) has briefly outlined the career of this 'jaunty cockney character', who after entering the museum as a boy attendant in 1898 and later given encouragement by Bather, became a world authority on the virtually neglected group of fossil barnacles. It took several years of negotiations by both Smith- Woodward and Bather before the Treasury sanctioned his appointment to the scientific staff as an Assistant in 1925. Withers became another of Bather's later recommendations to Mrs Gray, although she had been made aware of his presence in 1915 when Bather had borrowed a specimen on Withers' behalf, as well as through replies by him to her letters whenever Bather was absent. A joint work on the Palaeozoic Cirripedes was internipted by Withers' transfer to the Ministry of Munitions for the duration of the war (7 December 1916). Withers eventually completed a paper on the Ordovician specimens, naming a species Lepidocoleus grayae (1922), which prompted an appreciative note from Mrs Gray to which a hard- pressed chagrined Bather curtly replied (17 June 1922): Mr Withers, not being Deputy Keeper, can find plenty of time to do scientific work. I on the other hand can hardly get time at all, even by staying here all day! MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 191 Later, Withers recognition that these 'strange-stalked" fossils warranted the establish- ment of a new group, resulted in the publication of Catalogue of the Machaeridia (1926)^^. This included further references to Gray material, (see p. 219). Subsequently, Withers completed his Catalogue of Fossil Cirripedia. which dealt with all the material held by the BMNH. At the time the Gray Collection was purchased by the BMNH, Gregory"*** had borrowed the coral & bryozoan material, including the specimens described by Nicholson & Etheridge, but there is no evidence that he made any significant contribution with it before it was retrieved (8 March 1921 ). Much earlier, Ida Slater utilised specimens from Mrs Gray's collection for her monograph on the British Conulariae (1907) — another bizarre columnar fossil invertebrate — describing three new species and figuring examples of two other European species. The eventual purchase of the Gray Collection overcame possible later problems from figured material being in private hands, that could have resulted from Mrs Gray's policy of encouraging specialists to undertake their research on her material and then insisting that it was returned to her. Although the collection was adequately labelled and the figured specimens marked, the fact that Mrs Gray did not always adopt a system of numbering the specimens, meant that describers and subsequent users had no means of referring to, or identifying particular specimens. Such practice would not have been condoned by present-day editors of geological publications, nor the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. (/) Visitors Apart from the specialists known to have worked on her material, there is documentary evidence for only two other scientific vistors^^. The Gray/Bather correspondence reveals that Miss Elsa Warburg, the eminent Swedish trilobite worker, visited her in Edinburgh during 1913 (27 August 1913) but did not have time to go to Girvan. Another Girvan fossil collector, A. S. Alexander, provided a colourful account of a visit during 1904 in his autobiography (1939: 54): Ouarrymen told me the aged widow might still be seen in early Spring sitting alone the whole day, breaking the hard limestone of Craighead, and searching with unwearying patience for fossils. As I longed to see her collection, I called at 59. George Street; was welcomed and ushered into her private 'sanctorum sanctorum', workshop, fossil store, and scientific library — all in one compact form. The one back window looked North and down on the grandly-wooded grey capital and over Forth waters to the green, sunny fields of Fife — a quiet suitable room for microscope work. Cases of specimens, or cabinets covered the greater part of available space of the other three walls. On the left, or West wide of the window was a small but strong wooden bench, with a powerful winch affixed in front. On the bench were rough specimens, hammers, chisels, and other geological tools for dressing the specimens. She pointed to the winch [? = vice] and said 'this has been of great service.' She opened a cabinet, fully taller than herself, and there appeared a tier of drawers of various depths from one inch in the higher to two or more inches in the lower Beginning at the top she pulled out a draw and placed this on the broad window-sill which served as a table — there being a single chair in front which she requested me to occupy. The specimens in the drawer were arranged in rows. Each specimen, thinned and shaped, has a cardboard fastened on the lower surface. On the cardboard was written the name of the specimen, the name of the expert responsible for the naming, the locality where obtained, and other information or remarks anent. Some very special specimens had notes of experts, correspondence, illustrations, or publications in journals and science magazines. She directed my attention to special points of interest, and chatted in a free, homely, humble, modest 192 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELl^ way about the specimen shown. Certain localities I had searched, but failed to find fossiliferous beds, I inquired about. This she satisfactorily explained and rendered the reason. The burn in once case had altered its course and grass now overgrows the outcrop of the bed [Penkill. see note]. In another case, the locality should be searched at low tide as the bed is covered with water and sea- weed every tide. She seemed to know every curve and cranny of the Girvan district. We roamed in thought over the old haunts; and she expressed a hope to revisit and continue to search for trilobites or other. Drawer after drawer was placed thus on the window-sill for an hour without her resting or sitting. Finally, she pointed to another cabinet and explained that it contained the corals that my Professor Nicholson described in the Monograph of the Silurian Fossils of Girvan. We chatted to the door and gratefully bade good-bye. but to be held in memory while memory lasts. There is a slight suspicion that this is not altogether an authentic account and could represent a compression of events, whether real or imagined, for Mrs Gray continued to visit Girvan most years and ocasionally went to London, even travelling to Europe in 1907. If the date is correct, only a few specialists had used the Gray Collection, at this stage, although the significance of her work had been recognised by an award of the Geological Society. Later (1 March 1914), Alexander requested Alice Gray for photo- graphs of her mother for use in his book but before acceding to this she asked to see what he had written. 4. BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF F. A. BATHER W. D. Lang in tributes to his predecessor (1934)'"' provided adequate evidence of the multifarious interests and abilities of Francis Bather, in addition to recording the stages of his professional career. Bather's personal qualities and characteristics may have contributed to the difficulties in dealing with Mrs Gray and her material (see p. 198), for his intellect appears to have required a wide range of activity. W. N. Edwards, writing later (29 May 1937) to Alice Gray commented that: 'Dr. Bather was extremely able, but had far too many irons in the fire.' This phenomenal range of interests led to acknowledgement by his associates that he was an enjoyable companion; all accounts mention his kindly, witty and urbane nature, but although it is said he was beloved by his staff, there is a suggestion that Bather's occasional impishness, abruptness and precise fussiness caused problems. His trait for establishing exactly the correct procedure for any task'", whether sketching, making tea, an omelette, or to write a sentence, arrange an index, or a collection, might be thoroughly commendable in theory for most museum work, yet, could be very irksome to those who had to endure such tuition, or comply with his succession of maxims, however pertinent and rewarding. Apparently, at times, the Geology Department had the atmosphere of a schoolroom! It is conceivable that the delays he experienced in processing specimens may have been the result of staff relationships, even though discipline at that period was more severe. Several references in surviving correspondence to mislaid specimens, or delays in dealing with other matters, also imply that Bather may have ignored his own standards, although Raymond (1953: 173)^" had vouched that every needed specimen was readily accessible. All biographies of Dr Bather refer to his devotion to research on fossil Echinodermata throughout his life, resulting in an acknowledged position as a world authority, particularly on the Crinoidea, the group in which he became especially interested. He made significant contributions to the understanding of the morphology of echinodcrms MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 193 Dr F. A. Bather FRS. FGS (1863- 1934). From BMNH staff photograph June 1924. and, although not a field geologist, never lost sight of the effect of the environment, or the role of palaeoecology. nor the fact that the organisms he dealt with were once living animals. In some respects. Bather was an innovator of the current practice of applying biological concepts and evidence to fossil studies''\ There is ample evidence of his willing assistance for contemporary workers; frequent letters from both Reed and Spencer seek Bather's valuable advice, help or comment on all aspects of their work. In addition to the involvement with Mrs Gray, Bather had much friendlier correspondence with other amateur collectors, notably W. R. Billings of Ottawa, who supplied most of the material described in Bather's various shorter papers. Such correspondence was often the result of Bather's immediate response to reports of new, or significant specimens, for he sought to borrow anything that might be of assistance to his studies of the Echinodermata. Lang has commented on Bather's talent and leaning for writing reviews and popular articles — a task that he found more congenial since it enabled him to utilise a wide knowledge of literature, art and language. The length of Bather's scientific bibliography is adequate evidence of his prolific pen;'*'' with more than 212 papers, half of these on Echinodermata, and more than half of those on the Crinoidea, several being significant long-lasting contributions; this list alone would refute any contention as to the neglect of his official duties! Other facets of Bather's aptitude for the written word was a willingness to act as editor, both official and un-asked, or his co-operation in the production of various journals. Finally, the evidence of countless index cards forming part of several different systems — one the Catalogue of Cystids and Crinoids that caused the reaction of Mrs Gray in 1911 — survived for many years and their compilation must have occupied a considerable amount of his time'*'^. 194 R. J. CLEEVEl.Y, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS His efforts to popularise geology and demonstrate the usefulness of palaeontology by exhibition, arose from a lifelong involvement with most aspects of museum administra- tion. Bather's realisation of the importance of informative exhibits to interest every category of visitor, led to visits to most major museums in the world, in order to examine their techinique and galleries. This concern for museum management & development, together with his flair for writing, also led Bather to produce a defence against the philistine political criticism of museums during the period of the First World War. In many respects. Bather might be considered the most learned and versatile of those appointed to the position of Keeper of Geology, being familiar with most of the different aspects entailed in that office. Yet, his significant influence to the curation and administration of the BMNH was achieved before his appointment to that post (in 1924), which he was only to hold for four years'"'. The situation became even more difficult once he was made President of the Geological Society of London in 1926, which imposed further arduous duties upon such a responsible and dedicated individual. Although the cause of Dr Bather's death in 1934 could be attributed to an illness arising from his participation in a local dramatic production that winter, it was generally believed that his health had suffered during these appointments and contributed to the situation, as well as limiting his research output after retirement. There is evidence that Bather attended almost every annual conference of the Museums Association, participating as an able and witty debater, or a capable chairman. He was keen on amateur dramatics; Bather is also known to have been a zealous champion for the cause of Woman's Suffrage (very probably at the period Mrs Gray was berating him for not dealing with her crinoids!); and also very involved with local matters in the area of Wimbledon where he lived'*^. Two letters^** from Bather's home librarian and secretary mention other occupations. These ranged from the compilation of an index to the puns by Shakespeare, to the more practical tasks of binding the books in his library and establishing a Private Press ['FABO'] to publish specialized reference works on echinoderms. Throughout his correspondence and publications, Dr Bather complained that his 'official duties' occupied most of his time and hindered scientific work, but our re- appraisal suggests that it was very likely the range and volume of his interests and activities that impeded progress. In our view, the papers he did accomplish, together with his numerous professional achievements and official museum administrative function, demonstrate that Francis Bather fulfilled every responsibility required by each of his roles. The understandable chiding of an enthusiastic elderly Scottish gentlewoman, although justified in part, was the result of her own anxiety and lack of understanding about the environment of her eminent professional collaborator. In fact, the many facets of Bather's life and work, as/well as the hints of his acquaintances concerning 'that Lonely Intelligence' who had an impish personality, indicate that he probably warrants a more detailed biography. 5. THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MRS ELIZABETH GRAY AND DR F. A. BATHER The correspondence between Dr Bather and Mrs Elizabeth Gray spans a period of over thirty years, from October 1892 until her death in February 1924. It forms seventy percent of the letters forming the two volumes of the Gray Correspondence and is primarily concerned with the identification, borrowing and return of her numerous fossil specimens belonging to the phylum Echinodermala in which Bather specialised However, MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 195 1JPJTI8I1 MUaEUM (NATUliAL HLSTUiiY;, ^*t - '"':::a?::^, tS^ f oSt U.?^ -despondence: D. Bather's request ,„ borrow .he Gray 196 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANDY. HOWELLS that Statement although broadly summarising the theme does not convey anything of the difficult relationship produced by two such differently motivated people. Their dissimilar environments, interests and responsibilities caused considerable friction and the letters reveal a pattern of highs and lows in their working relationship, largely arising from mis-understandings over comments and intentions. Although Dr Bather partly understood Mrs Gray's wish to have various specialists examine and describe the material in her collection, he had no conception that this was almost an obsession. Nor did he realise that the need to relinquish her cherished specimens to achieve this caused her considerable anxiety. In the circumstances, her patient forbearance of his, to her, apparently dilatory approach in dealing with 'her fossils' can be appreciated. Equally her own narrow outlook and selfish preoccupation led to her failure to fully realise that someone in Bather's position'*'' — an administrative scientist at an intemationaly-renowned museum — would have many other duties and calls on his time. Although, in part, this complete lack of understanding by Mrs Gray can be excused by her age and social background; while on Bather's side, Mrs Gray herself had encouraged him to examine much of the material. The tone of their correspondence is very polite, but although they exchanged greetings and enquired after each others families, it cannot be considered really friendly. In fact, the frequency of the letters reflects the current state of their 'business' relationship; only occurring at close intervals during a period of difficulty, or on those occasions when Mrs Gray's concern prompts her to seek drastic remedies to achieve her life-long aims. Such alarums are in contrast to her more normal procedure of making brief periodic enquiries as to the progress that Bather might have made with any of the main projects he had undertaken. TTie letters convey the full nature of their reluctant collaboration and as W. D. Lang has remarked (12 February 1938): "the complete sequence . . . makes an interesting story'. It began with Bather requesting the loan of the Ordovician and Silurian echinoderms in the Gray collection (3 October 1892) and commenting that he: "would find much pleasure and profit in their examination'. Mrs Gray responded immediately: 'Thank you for your kindness in offering to examine the Echinoderms in my collection", but was unable to despatch the material for several weeks owing to illness. Bather within weeks of having asked for this material wrote (20 October 1892) that he had very little time available owing to the approach of winter and the fewer hours of suitable daylight when such private work could be accomplished. Two years later, Mrs Gray offers new crinoid material for him to study, refers to her fossils and comments that she would be glad to hear from him. Bather replied promptly, explaining that for almost all the intervening time he had been unable to work, owing to an eye problem, but re-assured her that the specimens were quite safe. In fact, during that period. Bather had taken a voyage to Japan to recuperate and had also been to Scandinavia where he had met his future wife. Next, presumably in an attempt to gain information, Mrs Gray used the pretext of listing all her fossils from Girvan to make another request (17 May 1896) about the specimens with Bather; which brought an immediate reply that he had not the time to deal with them and since most were only fragments of crinoid stems, he would not venture to name them. Thus the pattern of enquiry from Mrs Gray and the plea of 'too little time' from Bather was established almost from the outset. The real practical problem of adequate light in which to examine the specimens occurred again when Mrs Gray supplied specimens of a new PIcurocystid in the early months of 1899''". In March 19()0, a few months after J. W. Gregory had declined to undertake the description of Mrs Gray's starfish. Bather wrote to ask her permission to send casts to Dr Schuchert at Yale, since he had taken over responsibility for the Museum's starfish collections following Gregory's departure for Australia. At the same time. Bather informed her that he had begun a Catalogue of all Cystidea and Crinoidea and would MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 197 work systematically through her collection (and many others), returning specimens when they had been finished with. Mrs Gray took the opportunity and sent all the specimens of starfish that she had, having concluded from his remarks that Bather had also taken up their study. Although retaining this excellent new material. Bather pointed out she was mistaken and asked: 'please remember, at present, my whole energies are — or should be — devoted to the Cystidea?' That summer, Mrs Gray responded by sending her finds of cystids and crinoids, asking that the latter should be placed with the others still with Bather 'in the hope that they may ere long find an interpreter! ' To help her understand- ing of these cystids. Bather referred Mrs Gray to his contribution on the Echinodermata in Lankester's Treatise on Zoology, which had been his principal task during that period. Over the next few years, it would appear that there were only brief exchanges between them. In January 1901 , prompted by a request for a list of her fossils from the Geological Survey to update their Memoir, Mrs Gray used this as an excuse to spur Bather, who responded by suggesting that the best course was for him to update the Survey list himself as conditions at the BMNH 'were getting much worse, not better as he had hoped!' The following year, with F. R. C. Reed reporting that he had nearly finished dealing with her trilobites, Mrs Gray was anxious to learn whether Bather had made any progress with his examination of her Crinoids — (and starfishes!), stating that she also wished to put her collection in order. Bather, having then just been appointed Assistant Keeper, pleaded that his official duties did not allow time for private work, but promised to return everything that was not of immediate use. It was at this time that Bather had become fully involved with other facets of museum work, introducing his ideas on curatorial practice into the Department of Geology, establishing himself as an authority on zoological nomenclature, and eventually with his active interest in the developing Museums Association, becoming that organisation's President in 1903. Apparently, after explaining that pressure of work prevented him from dealing with her material, — much of it in fact stemming from these additional interests. Bather decided that the best course as Mrs Gray was so anxious about her specimens, was to return all the Echinoderms and this was done in September 1903. During 1904, Mrs Gray sought Bather's help over finding a specialist to deal with her gastropods, but it transpired that Jane Donald, who Bather suggested as the only possible person, was already working on part of the Gray collection. In 1906, Mrs Gray's annual collecting trip to Girvan produced two possibly new cystids. which she asked him to examine and in her single letter that year, added the inevitable enquiry about those he already had. Bather replied at once asking her to wait as he wanted to complete a long- term research project and avoid all other interruptions. Presumably, this was his Triassic Echinoderms of Bakony (1909), for in its introduction Bather indicated that a long time had elapsed between his receiving the fossils (in 1901, 1902 & 1903) and the completion of that memoir. Over this same period Bather was also occupied in compiling the section on the Department of Geology for A. S. Woodward's''' contribution to the museum's History of the Collections (1906), but he would not have described this as a research project. In July of 1907, at the age of 76, Mrs Gray visited a friend in Dresden and she also asked Bather to provide an introduction so that she could visit Prague at the same time, in order to examine Barrande's collection in the Narodni Muzeum. On her return a month later, and after leaving material at the BMNH on her way home, she enquired about a specimen lent to Bather in 1899 that had not been returned to her, but with which she wished to make some comparison. Bather only replied after she had written again that October, informing him of the new season's fossil haul, when he encouraged her to preserve every fragment of the various echinoid-like fossils she has found in the Starfish Bed". Their joint interest in the Pelmatozoan Cystids and other bizarre Echinodermata^', 198 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS appears to have fostered an increase in her activity and their communication, which persisted until its culmination in the memoir Caradocian Cystidea from Girvan that Bather eventually produced in 1913. This episode opens with Mrs Gray musing (21 November 1908): "I sometimes wonder if you have had time to do anything with the fossils that I left with you . . ." and Bather replying with the dramatic opening (1 December 1908)'"': 'I always see with fear and trembling an envelope addressed by you". Both in that letter, and in his introduction to the cystid memoir. Bather explained that his apparent procrastination was merely the result of other work preventing any real progress: 'if only people would stop sending me all sorts of other fossils, I should have some chance of getting on ! ""'^ and that it was necessary to study allied species and genera before he could proceed with Mrs Gray's Girvan material. He expressed his gratitude to her with the opening sentence of the memoir and underlined his indebtedness for allowing her specimens to remain in his hands for such a lengthy period. Mrs Gray's keen interest in the class may be explained by her comment: "every time I go to Girvan ... I find specimens new to my collection . . .' for it was certainly this that induced her to borrow Jaeckel's work on'*' Cystideans on several occasions. Although she apparently enjoyed looking through that book (17 December 1910). Mrs Gray later conceded 'it was to no great avail in determining her own material". Mrs Gray's preoccupation with the cystids is apparent from her letters. Bather mentioned that he was compiling a catalogue of all the cystids in the British Museum's collection (25 November 1910); 'doing all he can on the Cystidea" by taking his holiday to do so and working at home (17 December 1910). The first letter brought the comment from Mrs Gray (1 December 1910): 'Of course, if you are not likely to be able to take up my cystideans ... I need hardly continue to send specimens to you!" She explained that being 'a long way past the allotted three score years and ten" she was anxious to see work on her British fossils completed and reminded Bather that she had been sending him fossils for 18 years. This was followed by a second letter (29 December 1910) enquiring whether Bather intended working on her material as well as that of the BM?; was that collection very large? had she omitted to see anything important'? was there a collection as large as her own. or with a greater variety of species? Mrs Gray continued by expressing her goal: I know that you are the authority, but I am so anxious to know what mine are. & which are new that 1 would willingly put them into the hands of any competent worker, who would undertake to examine them at once! Every other group in my collection has proved to contain new material. These continual enquiries ought to have fore-warned Bather of a potential crisis. However, he simply replied (2 January 1911) by describing the nature of the catalogue he was compiling but compounded his error by inadvertently mentioning that, in common with all other British Museum Catalogues, only their own material would be figured. Misguidedly, by way of appeasing Mrs Gray, he suggested that descriptions of species in the Gray Collection could be included in this Catalogue. His preoccupation with the catalogue and in providing a straightforward answer to all her questions, caused Bather to omit mentioning that his descriptive manuscript on the cystids was in an advanced state of completion — that might have mollified her a little. Within three weeks, she had acted and made other arrangements for her 'beloved specimens' and notified Bather (21 January 191 1) that he should return them all as Mr Reed 'although diffident about working on a group upon which you are the authority" was prepared to do so that summer. Mrs Gray had effected the very situation outlined in her earlier letter and though, in her opinion, 'the description will lack . . . high distinction ... I feel Mr Reed will do excellent work". MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 199 It was a complete and most unpleasant surprise to Dr Bather, particularly as he felt he was taking a great deal of trouble over helping her. No doubt it was this event, more than any other subsequent occasion, that led to his accurate and colourful description of his position, or that of any specialist, at the British Museum: A palaeontologist at the BM is often envied, much as Dionysius of Syracuse was envied by Damocles. If any Damocles were to take my place he would sec. it is true, a rich feast of Cystids and Crinoids laid before him. But the chains of Office would perpetually hinder him from feeding, and every day he would dread the fall of the sword in the shape of a peremptory letter demanding the immediate return of some necessary specimens'''. Replying immediately (23 January 1911), Bather gave a detailed analysis of the situation over the cystids and pointed out that although 'Mr Cowper Reed will begin work on them in the summer, ... he had begun work Already!' He acknowledged that perhaps she had not appreciated the hours of work that had been spent preparing specimens, or making notes and pointed out that "some of the more curious among them have been perpetually in my mind's eye' and that he had been accumulating material from all parts of the world for the necessary comparisons. Consequently, he would still need to study her material, whoever described it, since he was compelled to complete the task. Although Mrs Gray apologised for her misunderstanding over his original letter and acknowledged Bather's need of her material, she was adamant about her request: 'Let me have my cystids soon — it will take me some time to look them over' — she even reminded him of a single specimen left at the BM in 1907. She hoped he would sympathise with her great desire to know just what her collection contained and would endure the step she had taken with patience. She admitted (28 January 1911) that she was quite unaware of the time he had spent working on them for: 'Indeed, I sometimes wondered if you thought them as interesting as I did.' Events took their course and produced what might have been a memorable confronta- tion between Bather and Reed at the British Museum on 30th January, which resulted in Reed's prudent withdrawal following his recognition of the considerable amount of work that Bather had already accomplished. Apart from this. Bather was in a very strong position, for he had a good working relationship with Reed, who was dependent upon him for help with the numerous descriptive projects undertaken for other bodies with which Reed augmented his university income. In a friendly letter''* to Bather (3 February 1911), Reed explained that he had pointed out to Mrs Gray that 'it is impossible for me to deal with her collection' since he felt that under existing circumstances 'she was [not] free to offer me the work'. However, he emphasized to Bather that 'mere reference to, or description of her material would not satisfy' Mrs Gray since 'it is independent treatment of her collection with figures which she requires'. Although appreciating Bather's special difficulties. Reed advised him to propose a smooth and rapid course for dealing with the material, although he realised such 'work cannot be hurried'. Letters from the two protagonists crossed giving their interpretation of Reed's conclusions. With Bather emphasizing (6 February 1911) the amount of difficult time- consuming work involved in the preparation of such fossils (often between 60-120 hours per specimen) but to allay Mrs Gray's fears of further delay, stating that progress should now be quicker since most of this work had now been done. She, in turn (6 February 1911), confirmed Reed's opinion, and sought to defend her action as protection of her material from its likely fate of becoming a mere mention in a BM Catalogue, unrepresented and undignified by the illustration it deserved! This did not end the issue between them, it dragged on for several months, reached other identical crises as they tried to resolve their quite different objectives. Both plainly 200 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS Stated their opposing views, Mrs Gray insisting on the early publication of any work on 'my Cystids" and that it should preferably be in the form of a Monograph. Bather on the other hand, (15 Febuary 1911) felt that this was impractical and proposed the gradual treatment of her fossils genus by genus and publication of their descriptions in a series of papers. In that way. she would have the assurance of seeing her fossils dealt with and returned to her as they were completed and he would have the satisfaction of seeing the plates were published as they were produced. He felt that monographic treatment was unsuitable for such a difficult group of fossils and that the difficulties and prohibitive cost of ensuring satisfactory and adequate illustration made it even more so. Mrs Gray at one point (19 February 1911) considered that their views on publication were so widely divergent "that if it were carried out to the satisfaction of one, it could only be to the dis-satisfaction of the other' and again called for the return of all her specimens. In order to clarify matters further. Bather had explained (1.^ Febuary 1911) that he had originally intended to utilise the Gray material 'to the best advantage of science", but that he was not in a position to undertake a complete monograph on the Cystidea, nor was he prepared to produce an inferior work. Despite having spent considerable time dealing with the material and feeling that he had made enough concessions. Bather began to arrange the re-packing of the cystid specimens for their return to Edinburgh. Very likely, Mrs Gray must have had second thoughts, realising that she would probably never obtain the descriptions she so badly wanted since Bather was the only person, who could provide them. The following day, as a conciliatory gesture, she sent a token note suggesting that Bather might consider offering a paper to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Somehow Dr Home of the Geological Survey became involved and acted as a mediator. He informed Bather that Mrs Gray was sending all her cystid material to London for him to assess the size of the task involved in their description and then suggest a possible time for its completion. After the allotted month. Bather duly made his report (8 April 1911) and agreed to undertake the preparation of a memoir restricted to the Starfish Bed Cystidea within a year, despite his reluctance previously to commit himself on this point of completion, but would still not make any definite promise about publication dates. He also pointed out that his own position could be made much easier. if a selection of the material was presented to the BMNH, thereby enabling him to work upon the task officially. Without openly agreeing to all these proposals. Mrs Gray informed Bather that Dr Home, as editor, would apply for a grant to publish the plates if he intended to submit the memoir to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Bather replied that he intended to do so and Mrs Gray expressed her pleasure that the work was to be published by a Scottish Society. The following year, despite numerous distractions and tasks during the preceding months. Bather presented a paper, as promised, at a meeting of the Edinburgh Royal Society on 13 May 1912. By accident, Mrs Gray was unaware of the meeting and had been at Girvan that week. However, as Bather pointed out to her, the memoir itself still required to be 'knocked into shape' and this would take considerable time; it was eventually received for publication in March 1913. Having achieved her first objective. Mrs Gray ( 16 November 1912) immediately began to bother Bather about her crinoids and other echinoderm taxa. particularly as she was continuing to discover further material. After expressing her gratitude for his work on the cystids she continually tried to needle him. in a succession of letters during the winter months of the following years, into producing another monograph on the Girvan crinoids. One letter (28 November 1912) probably demonstrates her great anxiety: On thinking it over, I seem only to feel that I am likely to be deprived ... of seeing the description of my Crinoids, which were first sent to you — at your request! in 1892 . . . the cystids followed in 1899. Surely you have no other material with a claim prior to mine! MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 201 At first, still trying to complete that on the cystids. Bather is compelled to use all available time to fulfil his current commitment and attempted to dissuade her by explaining (19 November 1912) that he had many other pressing tasks once the cystids had been 'got rid of". After outlining his working methods. Bather endeavoured to appease her further, by explaining that the bulk of the crinoids had been provisionally examined and that he intended dealing with them in conjunction with his official task of compiling a complete catalogue. Upon completing the Cystid memoir Bather wrote (19 March 191.^): "... if you have any idea of the work entailed . . . you can understand I am in very urgent need of . . . the first holiday since starting the task.' but to ease her mind he reported that the preliminary work on her edioasteroids had also been completed. Having reached her 82nd birthday Mrs Gray responded (27 March 1913) with the questions: Can none of your . . . research be laid aside ... to let me have the satisfaction of knowing after many years of patient waiting . . . the result of my 50 years work? Is there anyone in the wide world who can do it? The other people . . . making demands on your time are probably much younger . . . and can . . . afford to wait! At the end of that summer, this is followed by the even more plaintive cry (27 August 1913): I cannot refrain from writing again to ask if you . . . see your way to working on my crinoids? . . . my reason for doing so always increases ... In the wakeful hours of the night, I often wonder if I am ever to see my fossils again and think that I cannot let them remain away from me much longer. Bather fully sympathized with Mrs Gray (29 August 1912) and understood her anxiety, but could only reasssure her that he was as equally anxious to proceed himself, while emphasizing that the Palaeozoic echinoderms presented exceptional difficulties and pointing out that it was necessary to consider her fossils together with others, for simply describing 'what is new' as she requested, would scarcely produce a work intelligible on its own. He ended by stating that: 'your echinoderms occupy a leading place among the things I have set myself to do'. Later, that year, most of Mrs Gray's cystid material was returned to her, an act which caused Bather a month of further problems, following his recognition that several specimens belonged to other taxa upon which he was still working and had led to their retention. His comment to Mrs Gray that she would find 'a few missing' on this account, simply did not register with her. Much to Bather's consternation, the possessor of that phenomenal memory was soon demanding the return of individual missing specimens that she could recall. Although Museum staff had numbered and labelled all the cystids that had been returned, there was no method of recognising particular original specimens I really do not know what I am to do . . . I don't in the least know how you manage to identify particular specimens . . . but it is certainly impossible for me to do so . . . are some of Bather's responses, but fortunately for both of them matters were soon rectified. An identical situation occurred the following year, after Bather had returned other specimens and Mrs Gray expected to find a particular example showing both a crinoid arm and a gastropod, known to the family as the 'hat and feather'. Soon afterwards, the First World War caused various problems as many activities of the Museum and its Departments had to be suspended. Bather completed a series of 202 R. J. CIEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS Terminology; Mrs Gray's sketch of the hat & feather' specimen see her letter of 2 August 1915 (p. 201); Bather's postcard concerning the 'boot' dated 7 Nov. 1911 (p. 218). papers on the edrioasteroids. which he also published privately together as a book, and this work pleased Mrs Gray to some extent (14 January 1915), although he was never to produce the intended monograph on her crinoid material. At intervals throughout the remainder of her life, Mrs Gray's letters ask whether there has been any progress and Bather always pleaded pressure of other research, his daily routine of official duties, or else too few staff. During the war, this became true and on several occasions Mrs Gray considered requesting the return of her specimens (30 January 1915): "I feci that I cannot allow my specimens to remain out of my possession for an indefinite period, and at limes I feel very anxious about their safety.' In his history of the Natural History Museum, Stearn (1981: 106-109) has described the difhculties caused by the Government of the time, particularly the threat in January 1918 when it was proposed to take over both museums at Bloomsbury and South Kensington to provide additional accommodation for use as Government offices. Fortunately, this was averted by rcprescntalions from various scientific and professional societies acting together with the 'media' of that period"'''. Naturally, since in response to MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 203 Extracts from Mrs Gray's letter to Dr Bather concerning her collection, 22 November 1923 [aged 92]. her usual enquiry. Bather had reported (7 December 1916) that in the circumstances: 'not much progress is being made with scientific work and your specimens have to share the fate of . . . others', Mrs Gray became very concerned. However, by the time that she had decided to do anything, the Government had abandoned their attack and Bather was able to report (10 January 1918) that staff had been engaged to remove specimens to basement storage and re-assure her that: 'your specimens will be next to what we consider the most valuable fossil in the world**'. The war also affected*"' the normal scientific interchange of reference material. At one period. Bather (4 Febuary 1915) explained to Mrs Gray that the reluctance of the Americans to send specimens across the Atlantic had prevented him from making further progress with his crinoid research. A few months later, on behalf of Professor Schuchert at Yale, Bather requested the loan of a rare coral of hers from Girvan ( 16 October 1915). After clarifying matters and only agreeing to this after imposing the condition that everything should be returned to her afterwards, Mrs Gray commented that: 'as it now seems to be safe for my corals to cross the Atlantic, I hope the crinoids you require are being sent to you! ' Much earlier, she had vanquished another of Bather's excuses when in response to his argument that expenditure resulting from the war made it more difficult for him to undertake 'unpaid private work', she had riposted with the retort that for 55 years she had worked as an 'unpaid fossil collector! ' The crinoid episode dragged on; Mrs Gray adopted the tactic of requesting all her new finds to be returned immediately after their preliminary examination and identification 204 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANOY. HOWELLS (27 December 1912): "as I have not seen any of my crinoids for many years'. She also tried to get Bather to inform her whether any of the specimens in her main collection might be new species (17 June 1922). The last word might be said to have gone to Bather, for the 'new finds' included examples of the Crinoid Herpetocrinus. which he reminded her (23 January 1923): 'my first letter asked to lend specimens of this genus . . . unfortunately, for my purpose, you sent me so much else, — for which I did not ask — , that 1 have never been able to complete my paper! ' In some respects, it is surprising that this research was not completed, for the majority of Bather's scientific papers dealt with crinoids and one can only assume that he was never sufficiently satisfied with his results. Yet, Mrs Gray's "hounding' over the Girvan crinoids was continued after her death in 1924, by her daughter Alice (see 23 February 1925), even though by then most of the material really belonged to the BMNH. 6. ACQUISITION OF THE VARIOUS GRAY COLLECTIONS (i) The Original collections The material from the earliest Gray Collection accumulated by both Elizabeth and Robert Gray as well as her father Thomas Anderson, was presented to the Hunterian Museum in 1866. As discussed above, it formed the basis of several short papers, or was used in other ways by the Natural History Society of Glasgow. The interest this aroused led to the Gray family's pre-occupation with fossil collecting in the Girvan area on behalf of known and unknown specialists and for the science in general. Donations of various geological specimens were subsequently made to the Hunterian''''. Letters of R. H. Traquair provide details of the transactions preceding the purchase of a representative collection by the Royal Scottish Museum in 1889. It would appear that Mrs Gray had offered a selection of her duplicates to Traquair for £60, but in a reply (21 January 1889) he declined with 'unfeigned regret' since he could not recommend paying 'so high a price for them'. Her immediate response was to write back to Traquair and ask just what figure he would be prepared to pay? In an apologetic letter several months later (24 May 1889), Dr Traquair explained his 'extreme discomfort of finding myself involved in a dispute with a friend about money'. The long delay before replying was solely due to his putting off the disagreeable duty of making an offer 'which from its smallness' might be considered offensive to her. In quoting a figure of £3.5, in his view a quite liberal price, Traquair declared that it was the highest he would acquiesce to and if this did not suit the matter must be dropped. This ultimatum led to general agreement, but in a subsequent letter (29 May 1889) Traquair mentioned that he had no objection to any 'un-necessary duplicates' being excluded from the purchase and being returned to Mrs Gray. This condition was apparently the lady's compromise in settling for the sum offered. Much later (21 Febuary 1920) when referring to the matter, Mrs Gray stated that she had sold 750 specimens for the sum of £35. She also revealed that a year later \c. 189()?| 1 KM) specimens had also been sold to the Geological Survey for £50 and commented that: these small collections contained . . . neither types nor figured specimens, nor my best specimens, nor any of the rare species . . . and they were representative of my collection only as it was .^0 years ago MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 205 Several collections of Girvan fossils were presented to the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge by Mrs Gray between 1907 and 1910, and were identified by F. R. C. Reed. A letter to Mrs Gray from D'Arcy Thompson at St Andrews (23 Febuary 1921), mentions the donation of various items at this period. But, his particular reference to a small collection of graptolites and its association with Lapworth marking them as a very appropriate accession for St Andrews, raises an element of uncertainty as to their source. However, his final comment: 'You have given away many things in your time, and I know perfectly well that you will send us nothing which is not worth having . . ." suggests that they are merely Gray specimens Lapworth had used, or examples of species he had originally described. After her negotiations with the Royal Scottish Museum, it is possible that Elizabeth Gray had turned to another friend when considering further disposal. A letter from Lapworth to her (12 April 1914) referring to the scientific reliability of her material, regrets that his Department at Birmingham University 'living from hand to mouth" could not afford a complete set. Shortly after (20 May 1914), Mrs Gray wrote to Smith- Woodward at the BMNH, who had earlier expressed an interest: I write to inform you that I have decided to offer for sale the Trilobites in my collection ... It consists of 157 different species . . . and included the types of 53 new species . . . described by Nicholson & Ethcridgc (1878) and Mr F. R. C. Reed (1903-1906, 1914). . . . my collection represents in a very complete form the Trilobites of the Girvan District and has therefore a special value! This time after her experience with the RSM, Edinburgh from quoting a price, Mrs Gray decided to seek an offer from the British Museum. Inevitably their response was that they were unable to fix the price and asked her to name a figure for consideration. She in turn, felt unqualified to do so and duly sought Lapworth's help (1 June 1914). He hesitated, but a week later, after having fully investigated the matter, suggested a figure of £300 based on a range of £250-£50(). He had arrived at this amount based on the recent purchase of the Ketley Collection for a similar sum and various sales of specimens from the Dudley area, including one collection of more that a thousand specimens that was bought by the Natural History Museum for £550. However, in a detailed explanation (10 June 1914) he stressed that although the Girvan specimens were less beautiful and more incomplete, her collection contained more new species. Presumably, this valuation satisfied Mrs Gray, for the next day (12 June 1914) she wrote back to Smith-Woodward mentioning that she had consulted a knowledgeable friend and offered the trilobites for £300. Her letter is annotated 'price much too high — delay until Autumn" and it would appear that it was then intended to refer the matter to the Trustees. In a reply to this refusal, Mrs Gray commented (29 July 1914) that she had consulted two specialists and still believed the price was moderate. The matter languished until she reminded Smith-Woodward (21 January 1915), who responded (2 February)''' by an inferred reply that a more comprehensive offer of the whole collection would be preferred at a later date. This was acknowledged (5 February 1914) by everyone in the Gray family, who all wanted the British Museum to purchase the entire collection, as the best way of dealing with the Girvan fossils. Within a month or so of the war ending, Mrs Gray wrote (21 December 1918); asking whether the British Museum still wished to purchase her collection. She expected a good price, as apart from its being representative of the difficult Girvan District, she maintained it was unique having been examined by various specialists, who had then described her material. Her letter ended: 'In view of my advance age (I am in my H7th year), I would like to have the disposal of my collection settled." and had begun: 'the b 'T J2^- '*^^^, -^ ^<. v^- ^ ^ ^^*^ -^^ Letters concerning the sale of the Gray Collection to Dr Smith-Woodward (see pp 204 209). Offer to sell trilobites— 20 May 1914; Comment on price offered 29 July 1914. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 207 British Museum ... is where I should hke it to be." Smith-Woodward asked (1 January 1919) for lists and separate estimates of the value of each group exclaiming that: 'we are very anxious to acquire your collection if reasonable terms can be arranged, as soon as we have funds again." A year passed as each side clarified the position and Mrs Gray produced the requested lists and the BMNH asserted that they wanted the total collection including all duplicates. This preoccupation with numbers left considerable margin for adjustment, particularly as the nature of the material and the inclusion of unseen duplicates left uncertainty. In Febuary 1920, Smith-Woodward, after consulting Bather again, asked Mrs Gray to provide her value for each group. She, understandably explained that with her limited experience it was not possible for her to price the collection in sections. Her letter (21 February 1920) continued: In disposing of ... my material, I feel that 1 may reasonably look for a price that will in some measure repay me for my life's work. ... I feci that I can price my collection only as a whole . . . and that I should like to get £2,-'iOI) for it. ... I know that the Gray Collection has for many years been regarded as a special collection and one of importance. . . . therefore ... for such a special collection I am justified in asking a special price! A surviving internal memorandum (27 February), compiled by Dr Bather'''*, outlines the basis for pricing Mrs Gray's collection and also emphasized that some allowance needed to be made for potential types. After making due allowances for counterparts, material on loan and applying his own unit figures to Mrs Gray's lists. Bather calculated a figure of £1750; to ensure that every aspect was covered, including the possibility of further material, he suggested the value of the whole collection might be estimated at £2000. Smith-Woodward informed Mrs Gray of this figure (3 March) and enlarged on the various matters that had been taken into account such as the rarity of some groups, the lower value and fragmentary nature of others. He emphasized that Dr Bather had added a liberal allowance to compensate for any failure to recognise important material, or any mistake over numbers. Finally, in an effort to re-assure Mrs Gray that the figure was in accord with established practice, he misguidedly explained that it corresponded with "our usual rate' and with her previous sales to Edinburgh. By way of encourage- ment, Smith-Woodward suggested that it should be possible for the Museum to make the first of the three agreed part payments within the month. Mrs Gray replied immediately with a lengthy letter (6 March 1920), underlining her own view that the Gray Collection was a special collection of considerable scientific importance and cited figures that she felt demonstrated its greater frequency of 'new species". To justify her opinion she quoted comments made by several users as to its special merits in comparison with other Museum collections. Understandably, she seized upon the unwitting remarks made by Smith-Woodward and exclaimed: I feel that I should like it to be valued at a somewhat higher rate that your "usual rate" and that at which I sold small collections thirty years ago! She concluded with the comment that: 'a collection such as mine can never be repeated". Althought convinced of her own valuation, in the 'interests of Science", Mrs Gray agreed to compromise on a figure of £2250''''. In an effort to appease all parties and complete the transaction. Bather was prepared to add a further comment to her letter acknowledging that his original estimate might be wrong in the light of Mrs Gray"s fresh lists and recommending the agreement of the Trustees to her figure. Smith-Woodward informed her of this decision (8 March) and 208 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS IQ ... o ' - (DiOidcceU, (Ci^aCax^) OAMi-nw . The memorandum book containing details of the despatch of the Gray Collection to the BMNH in 1920 superimposed over a page of its contents. asked for a selection of the 'choicest things' to tempt the Trustees. On the 29 March, he was able to write that the purchase had been agreed and payment would be made during MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 209 the next four years, but that he intended to arrange that most of the sum would be paid within two. Numerous letters over the next few years deal with a succession of problems and details concerning the despatch and contents of the Gray collection. By May, the first third of the collection had reached the Museum, entitling her to the first payment of £850 and Bather confirmed that well over this quota had been received. The major part of the collection was installed at South Kensington within the year and only the various loans to other specialists remained to be gathered in (see letter 26 October 1921). Inevitably, the constant re-use of boxes and ropes etc. added to the confusion, and Mrs Gray found some fossil shells belonging to the Lewis Abbott collection, which were duly returned*^. Mrs Gray's peremptory concern over prompt payment as she fulfilled each of the conditions laid down was warranted; the precision of the operation was only evident at the Edinburgh end'''. Each payment had to be sought after promised fulfillment was overdue, allegedly this was largely due to administrative oversight or intentional delay. However, Smith-Woodward kept his own promise and managed to ensure that full payment was made within his specified two years***. Finally, Mrs Gray wrote to him (24 March 1922) acknowledging the receipt of the final payment and thanking him for 'all the consideration' during the purchase of her collection. She had achieved her object and was able to say: "It is a matter of complete satisfaction to me to know that the result of over sixty year's work is in safe keeping.' With the money that she received Mrs Gray set up a fund for her unmarried daughters, two of whom were simply referred to as fundholders on their later death certificates. At the time the first payment was due to her from the BMNH, she had written to Smith- Woodward (27 May 192U) asking that the money should be made payable to both her and her daughters jointly, since they had always been her co-workers and collectors. Unfortunately, this could not be effected as authority for the payment had only been sought in her name. (ii) Subsequent Collections In January 1937, Alice Gray wrote to Dr Lang offering the BMNH all the fossil material that the family had collected at Girvan since their earlier collection was purchased in 1920. Although several specialists*''' had since examined particular groups, most of the 16,000 specimens came into her 'un-examined' category. W. N. Edwards, in the absence of the Keeper, hurriedly accepted what he described as their 'extremely generous offer'. Lang, on his return, immediately repeated the Museum's appreciation of their gift. In response to the request of Mrs Gray's daughters, that the additional material should be added to the main Gray Collection and held under the same conditions, he explained that: 'Mrs Gray's collection was purchased ... in normal circumstances, that is unconditionally, as indeed all specimens . . . have officially to be.' Lang described the procedures adopted by his Department for dealing with such material, at length. He endeavoured to assure them that the practice of using distinctive printed labels to identify the specimens, ensured that the source identity was maintained even when particular groups were dispersed to the relevant sections. Commenting on Mrs Gray's original request that her material should be retained as a single unit, Lang explained that this was not possible for the methods adopted by the museum to assist research and organise its collections, meant that the various parts had to be distributed amongst different areas of the main Collection. However, Lang again re-assured Alice Gray that there was never any problem in recognising material from a particular collection. He undertook to pay the carriage and offered assistance with its packing. Subsequent correspondence over the succeeding months dealt with matters of packing and transport, and it was arranged to despatch it locality by locality. However, after 210 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANDY. HOWELLS dealing with the first consignment, Alice asked Lang for assistance since the time and energy involved in packing the entire collection 'is more than we can undertake'. He promptly sent two members of the Department to assist in its preparation and movement down the flights of stairs at 59, George Street^". By the beginning of May, all the later Gray material had reached the BMNH and Alice Gray asked that it should be incorporated into her mother's collection: 'as our mother took part in the work for three years . . . and we wonder, if this and our mother's collection should be regarded as a whole?" The designation of 'Mrs Robert Gray Collection, 19.'^7" adopted to record this donation delighted the family and satisfied the needs of curation. The Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge also received various smaller donations from the Gray Collection, as a result of Reed's publication of the descriptions of particular groups^'. Further donations were made later by Alice Gray c. 1937-38 as Reed produced other papers based on subsequent material (see Alice Gray's correspondence: Reed, 13 January 1938 Mss list) and this donation has been recorded in the literature as 'Coll'n. the Misses Gray" (see letter 14 February 1938)^". After the death of Alice Gray in Febuary 1942, Edith her surviving sister, wrote to both Dr Lang and W. N. Edwards (4 August 1942) informing them of a further quantity of material 'the results of their collection from time to time" that needed to be added to the Gray Collection. Its despatch to London had to be left until the termination of the Second World War when transport was more readily available. Unfortunately, Edith Gray also died during this period and it was only through the astuteness of her solicitors that the last phase of the Gray Collection was obtained by the BMNH^''. When the premises at George Street had to be vacated quickly, the BMNH sought the assistance of the Geological Survey staff in Edinburgh to pack and arrange the storage of this material. Although this was achieved by April 1945, the matter was only finally resolved at the end of June owing to a disagreement with the Survey by W. N. Edwards over the wording of the bill, which mentioned the assistance and services of a firm of carriers and cabinet-makers, to carry out the transfer. 7. THE GIRVAN FAUNA (i) The Ordovician Age in relation to the Girvan fauna The majority of the specimens in the Gray Collection are from a thick sequence of Ordovician rocks occurring in the Girvan area, which are part of a chain of Palaeozoic inliers stretching along the Midland Valley from Edinburgh to the coast. The basic stratigraphical succession of the Girvan 'shelly faunas' was worked out with precise geological mapping and palaeontological observation by Charles Lapworth (1882). He used graptolitcs as biostratigraphic indicators, a method he had introduced when dealing with the 'Moffat Series' (1878) for correlating the two sequences and recognised that an immense thickness of rocks was present at Cjirvan, in contrast to that in the Southern Uplands. Although his succession has been refined, it had never been seriously questioned (Clarkson, /W.5: 4), but an alternative explanation for the structure present in the latter area has now been established. Harper (1982/), 1984) has provided a revised interpretation of the stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Girvan sequence and shown that it is of late Caradoc (Onnian) to late Ashgillian (Hirnantian) in age. The Ordovician Period is remarkable in earth history for a number of important reasons (Jaanusson, 1984). Its most distinctive feature was the extent of the epicontinental seas which covered a greater area of the globe than in any other geological period, with the land areas mainly represented by small archipelagos rather than continents. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 211 Consequently, the supply of terrigenous material was very low and this favoured the wide deposition of carbonate sediments suitable for marine organisms. The period is also marked by considerable changes in both flora and fauna, particularly in the composition of its marine faunas. One reason for this is that a number of major invertebrate groups appear, become common, or more diverse for the first time. Among the most important benthic groups are the slromatoporoids, corals, cystids, crinoids and echinoids, although the bivalves and caphalopods also show significant changes — and of even more significance, the planktic graptolites. Jaanusson emphasized that important effects were produced amongst the skeleton-bearing associations and assemblages resulting in the establishment of the characteristic Palaeozoic biotic organisation of the epifauna. However, he also pointed out that the full explanation for many relationships has not been established, owing to the difficulty of distinquishing between ecological and geographical factors. The Ordovician is also characterised by extreme biogeographical differentiation in its marine faunas, which occurs to a greater degree in the benthic elements. Tlie classification and correlation of Ordovician deposits is further complicated, since the benthic and planktic faunas are often not contemporaneous, features which have led Jaanusson to conclude that it is, perhaps, the most confused of all periods. Fortey (1984) by examining global Ordovician transgressions and regressions has provided explanations for several of these aspects. Using a series of biogeographical models to demonstrate the occurrence of trilobite and graptolite biofacies he showed that the faunal changes that had occurred were as much the result of 'environmental shift as of evolutionary novelty'. He also indicated that 'ancestral faunas" had often been over- looked owing to the scarcity of the preservation of the relevant facies, but that these were available in the correct situations. Brenchley (1984) has outlined the possible causes of the significant Late Ordovician extinctions in many invertebrate families, genera and species. He pointed out that the earliest phase affected the deep-shelf Trilobite — Cystoid — Gastropod faunas that had already been displaced over the shelf edge by the initial phase of falling sea-level. Many groups show a sharp decrease in numbers and the gradual depletion of species richness in Trilobites, Brachiopods and Gastropods towards the Ordovician — Silurian boundary had been demonstrated by Williams & Wright (1981). Such changes were attributed to a drastic decrease in habitable area as a result of successive changes in sea level, which resulted from the growth and decay of the Gondwana ice cap. Associated changes in salinity and ocean temperature may have also caused extinction in planktic faunas. The historic Gray Collection, with its relatively well-localised Ordovician material has considerable significance in resolving some of these questions of spatial distribution. Although several Ordovician specialists have collected better and more reliably-zoned specimens (see Harper, 1984: 12) the taxonomic importance of Mrs Gray specimens is fundamental to their identifying such material. In addition, several of her sites are no longer available, having been worked out, or even lost. Jaanusson concluded (p. 3) that a solid taxonomic framework is a necessary foundation before stratigraphical, ecological, or palaeogeographical conclusions can be made. Ingham (1978) and others'"" have described the general palaeogeographical setting as that of a proximal fore-arc basin occurring on the northwestern margin of the Palaeozoic lapetus ocean. But Curry et a! (1984) have emphasized (quoting Dewey, 1982): plate tectonism operates on such a vast scale that It becomes extremely difficult to deal meaningfully with relatively minute Held phenomena The Girvan succession has been interpreted as recording the development of two fan- delta systems (Ince, 1984) with the Stinchar Limestone being a shallow marine fan-delta abandonment facies. On the basis of such research, Clarkson (1985) summarised the 212 R. J. CLEEVF.I.Y. R. P. TRIPP ANDY. HOWFLUS current picture of the Girvan Ordovician as an area of subsidence, in which the sedimentation was controlled by a series of moving large strike faults. Several giant alluvial submarine fans contributed sediment from the North and this spilled over the edges of the fault-bounded shelves. As this model was based on palaeontological research and biostratigraphy, it demonstrates the effective contribution that these disciplines can still make to good geology. (ii) The Silurian Rocks of the Girvan Area By L. R. M. Cocks (a) Summary of Silurian Stratigraphy Silurian rocks occur in two main areas north and south of the Girvan valley, which is occupied by Upper Palaeozoic rocks. These formations are nearly 30()()m thick and were chiefly deposited in a turbidite environment. The initial indifferent work of the early nineteenth-century geologists, including Murchison (1851), and Lapworth's classic work (1882) was superceded by a revision carried out by the Geological Survey (Peach & Home, 1899). This largely confirmed Lapworth's results and was reliable for the next seventy years. However, at the end of that period it became clear from studies of Silurian rocks in the Welsh Borderland and elsewhere, that the succession in the Girvan region needed to be revised and that many of the stratigraphical formations devised by Lapworth needed adjustment to modern standards. Thus the area was re-mapped, and further fossils collected by Cocks and Toghill (1973), who devised a new stratigraphy, made fresh correlations from their results, but endeavoured to conserve much of Lapworth's terminology. Cocks & Toghill found that the Silurian rocks were confined to the Llandovery, apart from the very highest beds in the Knockgardner area which are of basal Wenlock age. They established three separate stratigraphical successions (ibid, t.-figs. 8 & 9): 1. the Coastal region; 2. the Main Outcrop (which runs from Saugh Hill to Straiton); and 3. the Craig Head Inlier. 1. On the coast, south-west of Girvan there are two areas: The Haven (Shalloch Forge) and Woodland Point. At these, the Craigskelly Conglomerate unconformably overlies the Ordovician Shalloch Formation of Middle Ashgill age, and that conglomerate is succeeded by the Woodland Formation, which in turn is overlain by the coarse turbidites of the Scart Grits. The Woodland Formation yields abundant late Rhuddanian brachio- pods, including Stricklandia lens lens, which are overlain by graptolites of the cyphus Zone. 2. In the Main Outcrop all the beds are steeply inclined and often inverted, while they underlie the older Ordovician rocks to the South, lliere is also a strong unconformity, but with no conglomerate and only rare shells in the beds overlying it. The lowest Silurian beds are the dark mudstones of the Tralorg Formation, which also yield cyphus Zone graptolites. These are followed by the turbiditic Saugh Hill Grits and then the Pcncleuch Shale yielding convolutus Zone graptolites of Aeronian age. These are overlain by another unconformity, followed by the transgressive beds of the Lower Camregan Cirits that contain a shelly-fauna, which includes the stratigraphically important rhynchonellide Eocoelia curtisi in abundance; and then the deeper water, but still shell-bearing mudstones of the Wood Bum Formation. A series of shales and turbidites, named in succession as: Maxwellston Mudstones, Upper Camregan Grits, Penkill Formation, Protovirgularia Grits, Lauchlan Formation, Drumyork Formation, and Blair Shale. Successively, each of these yield graptolites that represent the complete Telychian MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 213 sequence of turriculatus . crispus, griestoniensis and cremdata Zones, but with no shelly faunas. After this there is a regressive sequence commencing with the conformable beds of the Knockgardner Formation that yield basal Wenlock shelly faunas. The overlying Straiton Grits carry a few ostracods and bivalves interbedded with 'Old Red Sandstone' facies of presumably Wenlock age, representing the marine regression seen in other inliers in the Midland Valley of Scotland. These Grits occur immediately below the substantial unconformity overlain by the true Old Red Sandstone of Middle Devonian age. 3. The Craighead Inlier is an assymmetrical anticline with a core of Ordovician rocks and is completely surrounded by Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous formations. Lapworth (ibid) formulated the successsion of this inlier; Lamont (1935) augmented and divided some of these terms; while Freshney (1959) replaced the latter's names for the divided Mulloch Hill Sandstone and indicated that the inlier extended further to the northeast. In ascending order, the basal Silurian unit — The Lady Burn Conglomerate — rests on different Ordovician formations at different localities and only one of these junctions is well exposed (C. & T., 1973: 213) with an unconformity being postulated for the other. This massive conglomerate contains sandy lenses that can be fossiliferous with a low diversity Cryptothyrella community (of Rhuddanian age) and sediments that indicate deposition in shallow water. The successive Mulloch Hill Formation is the most fossiliferous unit of the inlier and consists of green 'Rough Neuk" and buff Craigens' sandstones, which are interbedded with each other. The faunas represent shallow water to mid-shelf communities. However, near the top a quite different and richer fauna, identified as a Clorinda community, suggests deposition at greater depths and is a prelude to those occurring above. The succeeding laminated light and dark units of the Glenwells Shale contain a graptolite fauna indicating the upper cyphus Zone. This is overlain by the easily mappable, unfossiliferous, coarse and poorly sorted Glenwells Conglomerate. The Newlands Formation, with its diverse fossil assemblages of Slrick- landia and Clorinda communities, comprises the only shelly Middle Llandovery in the whole of Scotland and was possibly deposited upon the deeper part of the shelf. The soft thinly bedded shales of the Glenshalloch Shale have yielded well preserved graptolite faunas at some localities of gregarius Zone age with two different Subzones. The Upper Saugh Hill Grits comprise massive greyish-green turbidites, mostly coarse-grained and unfossiliferous. The limited exposure of the overlying Pencleuch Shale has yielded a graptolite fauna typical of the upper convolutus Zone, but which may be close to the faunal boundary. Similarly, exposure of the Lower Camregan Grits is poor, but elements from both Eocoelia and Pentamerus communities have been obtained from different localities. (b) The value of the Gray Collection The Girvan fossils were known long before the Gray family came to prominence, but by the time that Lapworth wrote his paper, their collection numbered 'between 20,000 and 30,000 specimens^ (Lapworth, 1882: 551) and has formed the basis for many palaeonto- logical papers both beforehand and afterwards. However, the main disadvantage to subsequent users is that the Gray collection is very biased towards the shelly fossils; there are very few graptolites despite Lapworth's utilisation of such fossils and that 14 of the 23 Silurian formations commonly have graptolites. This is also in contrast to the greater thickness of graptolite-bearing rocks occurring in the sequences of the Girvan area, which amount to more than ten times the thickness of the shell-bearing formations. It would appear that the Gray family were more interested in fossils that they could easily recognise and preferred to work at a relatively small number of localities where they could be sure to obtain them. This is borne out by the collections in the BMNH, for there 214 R.J. CLEEVELY. R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS are 23 closely-packed drawers of brachiopods collected from the Llandovery locality of Woodland Point, but other equally rich localities are either entirely absent in the Gray Collection, or merely represented by a handful of specimens. Nevertheless, the assiduity of the Gray family meant that nineteenth-century palaeontologists had a valuable pool of first-rate specimens available for their research. In turn these monographs were extremely influential in making "Girvan" an international byword as a source of Lower Palaeozoic invertebrate fossils. (iii) Interpretation of the Girvan Fauna In a presidential address, Robert Etheridge (1881) when emphasizing the importance of fossils in interpreting the Palaeozoic rocks of Scotland, mentioned (p. 6) that the first record of material from the Girvan strata was a short list provided by Professor Nicol (1844)^'^. Apparently, Sedgwick had only briefly visited the district during his tour of 1841 and was not able to collect any material until a later visit in 1848^''. M'Coy described this in a series of papers (1851-52), that must be regarded as containing the first descriptions of Girvan fossils^^. These, together with others were subsequently included in their joint publication on British Palaeozoic Fossils (1851-1855)™; Etheridge esti- mated that thirty-four species were from the Girvan area. J. W. Salter^**, was another responsible for the early description of Girvan fossils, his first contribution being appended as a list to Murchison's memoir on the Silurian of southern Scotland ( 1 855 )'"". These fossils had been obtained by Murchison in 1850 with the assistance of Alexander MacCallum, a local weaver, who is said to have been the first person to collect fossils from the area (ibid p. 9) and to have acted as a guide for all visiting geologists. Salter described thirty-seven species some of which provided the first indication of the link between the Girvan and North American faunas. More recent descriptive work has led to the correlation of the dominant phylla in these Scottish faunas with those found in North America. In particular, it has shown that the brachiopods had 'little in common with Caradoc faunas found elsewhere in Britain and Europe" but that their Girvan sequence is recognisable in the Mohawk stages of the southern Appalachians (Williams, 1962: 62). Harper (1979) has established the faunal associations that occur throughout the Girvan sequence and shown that brachiopods are frequently numerically dominant in many of these. Trilobites occasionally dominate several of the associations found in the Upper Whitehouse Group e.g. the 'Foliomena fauna' (ibid.: 440) and graptolites provide adequate stratigraphical correlation. The later Drummock Group has a great many distinctive faunal associations and in its upper part contains the very diverse and abundant faunas of the Lady Burn Starfish Beds (Lamont, 1^35; also provided lists of the fauna). The majority of the earlier faunal studies were based upon the large collections accumulated by Mrs Gray and the Misses Gray: John Smith of Dairy; and James Bcgg of Glasgow. As these descriptions were produced by palaeontologists, who were strictly museum specialists and who neither had the opportunity, or often the inclination to conduct fieldwork"^', their results inevitably contained errors arising from confusion over fossil relationships and occurrences. F. R. C. Reed, in particular, treated material from a number of localities together and created a false homogeneity within his faunas and taxa (see Harper, 1984: 22, for example of /,. mediostriata) . It is only with modern collecting techniques ensuring precise stratigraphical provenance and descriptions based on the numerical analysis of the fossils in certain groups (brachiopods, trilobites, cystoids and graptolites) that their mistakes have been rectified. A cursory examination of the range of the fauna's descriptive literature suggests that it was produced in three periods. An "exploratory phase' arising from the work of Murchison, Sedgwick and others; then a MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 215 more sustained 'accumulative' phase (c . 1870-1924) prompted by Mrs Gray's collecting activities and her concern for the description of the material by experts to reveal the number of 'new species" present, which then extended into a second stage (c. 1930-46) partly as the result of the continued activity of the Misses Gray, but also from the interest of other keen collectors such as Begg and Lament; and finally the present one (1956-84) that might be termed the "authoritative, or interpretative' phase arising from the active interest of a wide range of palaeontological and stratigraphical specialists investigating all aspects of Ordovician invertebrate faunas [Harper, 1982/): 253-4, has summarised all work on the Girvan fauna]**". Understandably the numerically abundant brachiopods have been dealt with most completely and provided much of our knowledge of these faunas. Ordovician brachiopod workers have made considerable progress in revising the systematics of earlier workers (Cocks, 1978); in addition, others have also interpreted the ecological associations and environments in which the Girvan species lived (Harper, 1979, 1984); and their stratigraphy (Cocks & Toghill, 1973). Williams (1962) used brachiopods as a further stratigraphic key to unravel the structure of the area, since many of the species are identical to those occurring in the undeformed platform carbonates of eastern North America, where the succession is well-defined. Harper (1979, 1984) has also worked on the formations of the Ardmillan succession, which form the sequence from which most of Mrs Gray's fossils were collected and has shown that very few of the fossils occur in indigenous situations. The changing composition and structure of these brachiopod associations reflected an essentially unstable environment. He suggested (1979: 443) that the predominantly common association of small dalmanellids and plectambonitaceans occurred on an unstable offshore continental slope and as a possible site. Harper envisaged a constantly changing submarine fan in relatively deep water. The damaged condition of the majority of these brachiopods, which include individuals from both presumed shelf and slope communities, indicated they had undergone transport from their original site and the lack of juvenile forms tended to confirm this view. Initially, the trilobites were dealt with by Nicholson & Etheridge in their general description of the Girvan fauna. Reed (1903-35) subsequently revised and described them more completely and apart from Howell's full treatment of all the Silurian species (1982), the current approach has been for specialists to deal with particular families (Whittington, 1950; Lane, 1971; Owens, 1973) after supplementing original material by making personal collections. However, various authors (Tripp; Ingham; Hughes el al) have examined other aspects of the Girvan trilobites. In comparison with the other groups, the relatively rich British Ordovician fauna of primitive echinoderms has been considered to be poorly known. One reason for this is the rapid disarticulation of such animals after death (Donovan, 1986: 1) and Smith and Paul (1982: 604) have indicated the relevant rate of this disassociation in the enigmatic cyclocystoids. Without being suddenly overwhelmed and pinioned by debris, or sedi- ment, the weak compound skeletal elements of echinodermata would soon begin to separate as their skeleton disintegrates very rapidly after death. Goldring & Stephenson (1972) in their discussion of the preservation of ophiuroids and echinoderms indicated that the only chance for their fossilisation was instantaneous burial by slumped sediment**'. Their conclusion that the Girvan Starfish Bed fossils had resulted from such rapid entombment in a turbulent, shallow water environment was modified by Harper (1982a: .30) to burial during sudden downslope movement of both sediment and fauna. In part, the apparent abundance of primitive echinoderms can be explained by the explosive radiation of echinoderm classes that occurred during the Lower Palaeozoic. Paul (1973: 1; 1984) in his monograph of the British Ordovician Cystoids stated that it was one of the richest cystoid faunas in the world, . . . and was the result of migration from three separate faunal provinces into the area. He listed eleven taxa from Girvan 216 .?^==^-. /;^"\~% R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS 4 ^/v/F Echinodermata found in the Starfish Bed, Lady Burn. 1 . 5 & 6 Pleurocystis quadrata Bather 1 & 6: Part & counterpart of original specimen E 23298b x 1 ; 5: Latex pull from specimen x 1 ; Mrs. R. Gray CoH'n.. 1920. 2. Aulechinus grayae MacBridgc & Spencer. E 405522a x 1; Coll'd. Alice Gray. 1934. 3. Dendrocystis scolicus (Bather). A latex pull from E 237(X) x 1; Pres'd. Misses Gray, 1937. 4. Cnemidaclis girvanensis (Schuchert). E 5.3835 x 1; Purch'd. from Mrs R. Gray, 1920. 7. Cothurnocystis elizae Bather. E 23702b x 1 approx. localities (p. 76) and suggested (p. 121) that ideal conditions for pleurocystids apparently prevailed duinng Starfish Bed times, since three species are recognised; and their preservation indicated that they were buried alive by a sudden influx of sediment. Despite Bather's predominant interest in the Crinoidea, he made very little contribu- tion to knowledge of the Girvan crinoids. Prior to Ramsbottom's monograph (1961). only one of the five described Ordovician crinoids had been recorded from Girvan''^; he increased the number of known species to twenty-three, with twelve of these being found at Girvan'*''. Ramsbottom questioned the occurrence and identity of the material previously described by Nicholson and Etheridge (1880) and Bather (1896); and in Cothurnocystis elizae Bather. 1. Origmal' specimen BMNH E 23702b x approx.. presented by 'The Misses Gray' in June 1937. 2. A latex impression taken from the original x 1. 3. Another Gray specimen depicted in a rough sketch showing Bather's interpretation (letter 16 January 1899): The specimen . . . though so imperfect as to he scarcely recognisable . . . is, I think, different from any previously described. But is hardly good enough to give a name. . . . We have no British specimens . . . in this Museum ! 4. Latex pull from E 23172 x 1, showing the fine detail that is preserved in some specimens. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 217 218 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS recognising (p. Ill) that the latter had misinterpreted crinoid features incorrectly as a result of the imperfect techniques available to him for dealing with difficult material, may have given a reason for Bather's limited results. Later. Strimple (1972) and Donovan (1983) made further nomenclatorial revisions and increased the number of crinoid species (Brewer, 1974; Donovan, In Press) to thirty. Paul (1965) had earlier described the only record of the class Paracrinoidea from Britain. Spencer's work on the Palaeozoic starfishes is discussed elsewhere (p. 188). The most significant element in the Girvan echinoderm fauna must be the specimens of 'carpoids' that Jefferies (1968, 1986) has now convincingly interpreted as calcichordates**. These strange fossils, traditionally regarded as primitive echinoderms, were in fact chordates, an idea that had first been postulated by Gislen in 1930. They have many chordate, and sometimes vertebrate, characteristics, but they also possess certain echinoderm-like features. The detailed analyses of these fossils by Jefferies et al are based upon functional explanations for virtually all their anatomical features, particularly their internal anatomy, and establish that they were ancestral to all modern chordates including the vertebrates. Alternative theories on these "carpoid' groups (the solutes, mitrates. cornutes) recognising them as echinoderms, founder on several aspects of functional interpretation and always lack vital structures. The two cornutes Cothurno- cystis elizae and Scoliaecystis curvata, both described by Bather from the Gray collection, had an important role in the investigation, which led to the new theory and has solved one of the problems of classical zoology. In his original paper, in fact. Bather too, considered that Cothurnocystis might be a chordate, but rejected the idea (1913: 417). Bather's paper has been recognised as an enormous advance in the knowledge of these bizarre-looking fossils. Both he and the Gray family independently referred to Cothurno- cystis elizae as 'the boot' (see letters 7 & 8 November 1911). The following year, in recognition of her contribution. Bather named the species after Mrs Gray and decided to use the form elizae because it made a 'pleasant sounding combination"**^. Jefferies (1986), in his detailed and readable explanation, described this species as 'one of the strangest-looking animals that ever existed' and acknowledged its companion cornute to be a more specialized form (p. 207). We wonder just how Elizabeth Gray would regard the first comment and the fact that Bather named such a creature after her! Perhaps, the final sentence in that book would have convinced her that the effort was worthwhile, for together with his predecessors. Jefferies acknowledges that 'the nub of the whole matter is the extraordinary group of fossils called calcichordates'. Although the two Girvan species do not occupy vital positions in the cladogram of the Dexiothetica, the investigation of their features had a major part in the development of this research and led to the development of new investigative techniques. That alone, we feel would have pleased her, but the realisation that her beloved 'cystid' material**'' provided two British scientists with a significant part of their life's work [she was somewhat patriotic!) and had a substantial part in the development of a new theory, would we suspect, in Mrs Gray's view, have been a reward equivalent to her recognition by the Geological Society in 1903. It would appear that apart from the less numerically abundant elements of the faunas e.g. sponges, conularids (see Slater, 1907). hyolithids etc. only the various classes of mollusca have received less attention than they deserve, with the bivalves faring worst of all; although treatment of the newly recognised classes of the monoplacophorans and rostroconchs is equally poor**''. In many respects, aside from problems of preservation (which can be overcome), this is due to the practice within molluscan taxonomy of describing material on a zoological rather than a faunal, or siratigraphic approach'"'. The 'strange-stalked forms' that initially were referred to as Cirripedia attracted the interest of Woodward (1880); Bather ('see letters & 1926: vi); Reed (1901); and ultimately after the Gray Colin, had been acquired by the BMNII, Withers (1922), who MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 219 recognised their distinctive characters and estabhshed the Group Machaeridia (1926) to accommodate them. (iv) The Starfish Bed, Lady Burn In a postscript of a letter to Professor Lapworth, Mrs Gray mentioned her 'discovery' of the now famous Starfish Bed at Lady Burn (20 November 1898). A subsequent and much later note by Alice Gray'" indicates the importance that the family attached to this discovery, for the Grays were under the impression that their site was not the Starfish band. West of Quarrel Hill described by Lapworth (1882: 619, fig. 21). This was thought to have been in an old quarry, for which the family had searched in vain. However, although Lapworth referred to a fossiliferous sandstone being found in an old quarry, there is no precise evidence that he encountered these rocks in situ (see Harper, 1982a: 30), but merely correlated that bed with the similar sandstone occurring beneath the waterfall at the head of the Lady Burn. In fact, in his letter to Mrs Gray, Lapworth confirmed that his best specimens had been obtained from walls in the neighbourhood of Quarrel Hill. In the Gray's opinion, Lapworth never saw their 'new' Starfish Bed. However, we consider that this is a slight misapprehension and agree with Harper (ibid) that the Gray's re-discovered the Starfish Bed and were probably the first to collect such material in situ. The general photograph of Mrs Gray at the Starfish Bed locality [Fig. 2, p. 176) shows a considerable exposure of rock, with the Starfish Bed near the piece of newspaper at the top. The Starfish Bed is the hardest rock available for repairing a drystone dyke and it is very likely that it would have been quarried here. Lapworth's short faunal list is in accordance with the belief that only one Starfish Bed locality is involved. However, Harper endeavoured to establish the occurrence of the Bed at its type locality over several years and in 1978 successfully located three fossiliferous sandstone beds, which in part substantiated Begg's documentation (1946) of several fossiliferous units at this classic site. Harper concluded (1982a: 31) that the lowest bed corresponded with the original Starfish Bed as its lithology and fauna was virtually identical with material in museum collections. The excellence of preservation at all three levels was unusual with most of the fossils being complete and breakage, or wear almost negligible. He concluded that each bed had been deposited in slightly different conditions on the indications of their faunal composition and agreed in part with the opinions of Goldring and Stephenson (1972) but felt that there was no strong evidence to deny that rapid entombment of the fossils followed sudden downslope movement. Examination of current faunal lists reveals that a wealth of new invertebrate forms have been described from this Bed since Mrs Gray provided Nicholson & Etheridge with two new Star-fish (1879: 318)"". Collecting proceeded rapidly and her correspondence with Bather and other palaeontologists continued in earnest to ensure that the exception- ally large collections resulting from the relentless activity of the Gray family at this locality were dealt with. [Gregory originally undertook to deal with the interesting starfish and Bather requested the crinoids]. She herself expressed amazement in a letter to Bather (12 March 1914): "I seem to have sent [you] an astonishing number of specimens from the small Starfish bed.' James Begg, a local property agent, magistrate and a renowned amateur fossil collector, has related how the Grays regularly covered up the exposure of the Starfish bed with rubble before they left the site each day, in an effort to conceal the exposure from others. Begg obtained the assistance of a local poacher (and part-time miner) Tom Mactaggart, who lived close by at New Dailly, to enable him to discover the site of the bed and reach it at an un-worked level six feet deeper than the area cleared by the Gray family. The Starfish Bed at Threave Glen (NS 250037), now included in the Upper Drummuck 220 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANI1Y. HOWELLS ^A: ,:".>^' ■r.i:*- •^^L^rkn:ii^^ -Tff MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 221 Group is considered to be of Rawtheyan age (Williams el al, 1972). It has proved to be the most productive locality in the Girvan District and this importance has led to its registration as a site of Special Scientific Importance. Yet, information on the fauna is insufficient to permit a succinct appraisal; trilobites are particularly abundant and together with brachiopods numerically dominate the fauna, but bellerophontids may locally dominate the rich shelly fauna (Harper, ihici: 32). Regrettably, in common with much of the other molluscan material in the Gray Collection, these taxa need further systematic treatment. 8. CONCLUSIONS The importance of the Girvan fossils for understanding Ordovician geology and the evolution of many invertebrate phyla, in addition to other palaeontological aspects, is widely accepted. Yet. the significance of the Girvan material would certainly not have been apparent at the time Mrs Gray began to collect. Why did she collect? It would be interesting, at the very least, to know the answer to that question. We suspect that she had several reasons and that these changed and developed over the years. Unfortunately, as no member of the Gray family kept a journal, and their surviving correspondence is essentially concerned with practical matters concerning the use of the collection, these cannot be verified. Occasional glimpses of Mrs Gray's attitude can be obtained from terse comments in her letters to Bather, or Davidson. While the much later accounts of the family's activities over the years, provided by Alice Gray, yield more tangible evidence. In part, Mrs Gray's fossil collecting probably arose from her father's interest in local natural history; her own activities certainly increased after meeting Robert Gray another naturalist, but it is difficult to avoid the assumption that initially there would probably have been no real purpose to their collecting, other than providing themselves with a pleasant pastime. Many years later she acknowledged that such collecting had given her 'lifelong pleasure'. The Gray family were fortunate, firstly, in that their collecting interest coincided with [and possibly stemmed from?] the establishment of the Natural History Society in Glasgow. Then, secondly, through the encouragement of its Secretary, Mr John Young and his contacts, their collection was utilised by Thomas Davidson. As a result, Mrs Gray was immediately provided with a particular objective and could contribute to the development of scientific knowledge. It would appear from the records that Davidson Various Ordovician invertebrate fossils from localities near Girvan, Ayrshire in the Mrs Robert Gray Collection purchased in 1920. 1. Bivalve: Cuneamya grandis (Hind, 1910). L 49886, internal mould x 1 (the external impressions of both valves are also preserved); Upper Ordovician, Starfish Bed, Drummuck Group, Thraive Glen. 2. Gastropod: 'Loxonema' grayuimtm (t.ongstaff). Holotypc G 43539 x 2; Mulloch Hill. 3. Brachiopod: Fardenia (Fardenia) columbana (Reed). Lcctotype B 72928, brachial valve, x 2 approx; Lwr. Llandovery, Mulloch Hill Quarry |= Rough Ncuk|. 4. Gastropod: Cyclonema crebrkostata. G 47843 X 1; Upper Ordovician. Whitehousc Gp.. Shalloch Mill ■ 5. A biscrial Graptolitc: Orlhogruplus tninccUus var. inlermediiis. H 1915 x 2; Llandcilo, Lwr. Ordovician, Pinmore Cutting. S.E. of Girvan. 6. Brachiopod: Fardenia (Saughina) pertmax (Reed). B 72948 x 1.5; Middle Llandovery, Woodland Point. 222 R. J. CLEEVEl.Y. R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS kept of his correspondence thai he provided no particular direction to her collecting activities, but dealt with whatever was found. However, anything that was thought to be unusual or rare by either party, obviously led to particular use of Mrs Gray's 'good discriminating eye" on her next foray! The unusual circumstances, which enabled Davidson to concentrate on his brachiopod research, possibly influenced Mrs Gray's understanding of the nature of such work. Sub- sequently, when allowing her material to be used by specialists such as Bather, or Lapworth, who had other tasks to perform, she frequently felt that they took an excessive amount of time to complete their research. Her view was also influenced by the fact that two other specialists, Mrs Longstaff and F. R. C. Reed, who also dealt with the Gray material, were able to determine the use of their own time and returned the fossils they examined quickly. Through her contact with the needs of these workers, and her continuing field experience, Mrs Gray and the various members of her family were able to increase their knowledge of the various fossils they collected. Lapworth's field work resolving the Girvan succession undoubtedly provided her with useful experience and insight as to the significance of 'her fossils' at an opportune moment. Subsequently, the long association with Bather's work on various fossil echinodermata provided the necessary continuation of purpose and contact, even though ultimately it may not have been particularly productive for either party with regard to their original objectives. However, this particular link provided the majority of the other specialists who worked upon Mrs Gray's material and probably led to the acquisition of her third and major collection by the British Museum (Natural History). In our view, the reasons that Mrs Gray and eventually her daughters collected the Girvan fossils, developed over the years. As discussed above, Mrs Gray initially took an interest partly through a family background of local natural history and the fact that it gave her an interesting occupation. Indeed, there is no real indication as to the necessity of her becoming involved in the more practical duties of house-keeping, or whether she was able to avoid such tasks by her fossil collecting activities''''. Once becoming involved in assisting specialists, an interest and awareness of the nature of fossil species led to objectives of extending faunal lists, discovering new species and'''' establishing occurrences. Her letters to Woodward (20 May 1914; 21 February 1920) emphasize the number of different species, new species, rare species, and larger, or finer specimens present in the Gray collection. Eventually having acquired the necessary practical, technical, collecting and storing skills their material became extremely useful and unique. Ultimately, as Alice Gray recounted, the annual summer visits to relatives at Girvan were customarily spent collecting fossils — it had become a family tradition! There is even a suggestion that it had even become compulsive — almost an addiction — for immediately after each of the Gray collections had been disposed of another was begun. Apart from her interest in fossils, we have little real knowledge of Mrs Gray's life. There is no information on the style in which the family lived; whether she had to carry out the normal tasks involved in bringing them up, or whether many of these duties were achieved by servants? The factual letters that survive provide no indication of other interests, or her opinions on events of the period. Although the difficulties the Gray family experienced during the Great War are briefly mentioned, these are relatively minor and there is no reference to the more significant events of those years and their consequences. The single surviving draft of a letter to another member of the Gray family in Australia'*'' reveals that Elizabeth Gray was delighted to receive letters herself, but that: 'I always seem to find something to do — or take a rest! ' and seldom wrote any herself. Even much of that letter is concerned with the Gray Collection and her obituary notice apparently confirms that all her leisure time, consistent with her limited domestic duties, was spent in dealing with her fossils. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 223 At an early stage, Mrs Gray decided that she did not wish to acquire the necessary scientific knowledge to describe some of her own fossil material, but felt that her best role was to provide specimens for others*. However, her curiosity frequently compelled her to seek advice, or references to fossil organisms to improve her understanding" and on a few occasions to visit museums in order to examine comparative material*^**. At one time she even enquired as to the possibility of borrowing specimens from the Barrande collection herself. Several of her letters to Bather indicate that she had acquired considerable knowledge concerning the relationships of her material and could under- stand the problems they presented and realised the significance of slight differences in ornament and size""'. It would also appear that Mrs Gray had an awareness of brachiopod variability for many of the forms that she sent to Davidson have now been recognised as belonging to several different species and her original queries vindicated™'. \ \ Part & counterpart examples of 'Lophosjnra ihraivensis Longstaff from the Starfish Bed. Thrcave Glen, Girvan, Ayrshire, in the Gray Collection, 1920. 1. Block with External mould, G 25404 x 2.5; 3. its counterpart internal mould; 2. Another external mould, G 25407 x 2; 4. a latex pull taken from this mould showing shape and ornament of the shell, x 2. 224 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS In common with the layman. Mrs Gray had little real idea of the technical skills •needed to deal with her material, or the time that such preparation required: or the difficulties involved in the illustration of such material. The inadequacy of the materials and equipment available at that period'"" were another factor — this is indicated by the subsequent re-interpretation of many Girvan taxa when techniques improved'"^. Although her letters indicate some awareness of these problems, the initial objective of having her material identified, ultimately became something of an obsession, and influenced her relationships with the users of the collection. In later life. Mrs Gray understandably became even more concerned to see the results of "her lifetimes work' and was particularly exasperated that some of the earliest projects — those begun by Bather on the crinoids and starfish — were not completed. Her fixation leading to her comment (28 November 1912): 'surely you have no other material with a prior claim to mine", is excusable in view of her considerable anxiety expressed in a later letter (18 March 1913). According to Alice Gray (5 December 1937) the only letters of a forceful nature that Mrs Gray ever wrote, were those to Bather on this subject of 'her cystids and crinoids'. and some others concerning the 'mis-use" of brachiopods from her collection by O. T. Jones without her sanction. Although Mrs Gray undoubtedly obtained her main pleasure from the completion of work on material in her collection, she always professed to enjoy being of 'service to many geologists". However her constant assertion as to ownership of the fossils, suggests that she did not fully ascribe to the view of other more philanthropic collectors, who recognised that their specimens really belonged to science, (see letters from W. R. Billings to Bather during the same period)"". Perhaps, it should also be asked whether it is right for one individual to occupy all the attentions of the few available specialist workers in a particular science at the same time? particularly as the object was as much for her own satisfaction as the benefit to science. Still in mitigation, it has to be acknowledged that Mrs Gray determinedly set out to ensure that the material should ultimately be available in the principal insitutions holding similar palaeontological collections. Throughout her life. Mrs Gray appears to have had a close involvement with her fossils, they are always referred to as 'my' specimens'"'", several had pet names and she undoubtedly worried about them when they were away on loan and always insisted that everything should be returned to her. It would have been difficult for her to insist on the return of type and figured specimens to-day, for the ICZN Recommendation on type specimens is that they should be lodged in a recognised Research institution. The extent of her personal concern was demonstrated by an incident that occurred during the 1st World War, when: During a Zeppelin raid on Edinburgh . . . wc spent most of the night in a bank on the opposite side of George St. — as being a nnuch stronger building than the house wc live in, which is one of the original houses and dates from 1790 — My mother put into a large handbag as many of her very best Cystids as it would hold and sat with it on her lap for 3 to 4 hours until the danger was past. She had some anxious moments during the War'"^. This trait became more accentuated as she grew older. It is possible thai this possessiveness in the later years, may have reflected a realisation of the commercial value of her collection. Mrs Gray had certainly understood the significance of her collection when she first offered the trilobites to the BMNH in 1914 and the various users had always commented on the unique contribution it had made to their scientific work. Later, when the sale of the entire collection was negotiated in 1920, she was thinking in terms of obtaining a reasonable return for all her years of collecting the material. However, once the sum had been decided her attempt to have part paid to her daughters indicates that MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 225 she also had their welfare in mind. This is confirmed by the Fund that was set up after investing the money on their behalf. Whatever her motives, and despite some understandable quirks, Mrs Elizabeth Gray's devotion to discovering the fossil faunas of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Girvan District made a substantial contribution to British geology. Her determination to ensure that the material was adequately described by the most competent persons available was an even greater achievement. She completed the task she had undertaken by ensuring that the various collections she had accumulated were safely housed in the most reputable establishments in existence. Their value is exemplified by the comment of one of to-day's specialists: 'Anyone wanting to work on Ordovician faunas is compelled to use the Gray Collection!' It is unlikely that Mrs Gray had set out to disprove the widely held belief of the early part of the nineteenth-century that 'Scotland was . . . poor in organic remains''"^ , but she certainly ensured that no one could ever assert so again! Her achievement is commemo- rated by the many Palaeozoic fossils that either bear her own surname, or that of one of the localities in the Girvan area, while Bather's use of elizae for the type species of the bizarre cornute Cothurnocystis makes a more personal tribute to her zeal" . 9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Inevitably, in a collaborative study that has been pursued over several years, its authors will have incurred obligations to many individuals for help, advice and information. Our appreciation and gratitude is owed to many of our colleagues at the various institutions in which we have worked, or whose resources we have used. We trust that they will accept this general acknowledgement of their help for a complete list would only antagonise our editors. Among those who services deserve special mention are: at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, Professor H. Whittington. David Price and the late A. G. 'Bertie' Brighton, who contributed details of material and the Cowper Reed reminiscences; Isles Strachan, Department of Geology, Birmingham University, who kindly investi- gated the Lapworth papers and provided confirmation of material in the BMNH; Ian Rolfe of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh for his encouragement and interest in the project over the years, and who, together with Bill Baird, provided information on Robert Gray and obtained illustrations of the George Street house; the use of this print with the permission of the Office of Ancient Monuments is also gratefully acknowledged; Daniella Shippey, Edinburgh, who carried out various aspects of the genealogical research into the Gray and Anderson families on our behalf and has been awaiting this paper to satisfy the interest that aroused; Dr J. A. Gibson (Scottish Natural History Library) for discussing the value of Robert Gray's contribution to Scottish ornithology; and finally, Mr Ilgars Steins, ROM, Toronto for preparing the Girvan locality map. 226 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS The usual generous assistance provided by the staff of various units in the British Museum (Natural History) deserves more than customary recognition. We are particu- larly indebted to those in the Palaeontology Library, who allowed us access to the Gray family Archive held there; to friends in the Photographic Studio, who contended with assorted whims over possible illustrations, and produced admirable results from poor beginnings; while our fellow invertebrate palaeontologists, answered our Gray-related questions and assisted with their own literature resources and field knowledge. From these Dick Jefferies, is owed a greater debt, for he willingly commented on a later version of the manuscript and augmented our knowledge of the bizarre groups collected by Mrs Gray on which he is the acknowledged specialist; and equally the involvement of Sam Morris with the work of each of us requires similar recognition. Finally, we must express our thanks to Rex Banks, Editor of the Historical Series, who was prepared to accommodate the paper from the first and quietly ensured its realisation and to the Keeper of Palaeontology, Dr L. R. M. Cocks, without whose permission the project could not have even begun, for his contribution and approval. 10. FOOTNOTES 1. INTRODUCTION !. Letter from Alice Gray to Dr Bather (14 July 1932) concerning a biography of her mother: Mr Balsillie required an account of her life rather than an appreciation of her work. The family [therefore] were the most appropriate people to write such a notice. 2. Wilfred Norman Edwards (1890-1956). The first palaeobotanist to be appointed by BMNH (1913). His career was interrupted by both World Wars, but in the interval Edwards organised the extensive collection of fossil plant remains and gained an encyclopaedic knowledge of such forms and their literature. W. N. Edwards was appointed Deputy-Keeper in 1931 and had succeeded Dr W. D. Lang as Keeper in 1938 — virtually the time his correspondence with Alice Gray began. His plans for the reconstruction of the Museum's exhibition galleries were thwarted by the 2nd World War and he was made responsible for the evacuation of all the collections. After 1945. he then had to arrange for their return and the repair of the damage suffered by the buildings. Other refs. see: //. Soc. Biblphy. Nai. Hist. 3: 231-237; Steam (1981: 241-2). 3. It is thought that financial reasons were partly the cause in the case of the first; and the Second World War prevented completion of the later attempt as Edwards was made responsible for the evacuation of the Museum's collections in 1941^2. 4. see W. N. Edwards / Alice Gray Correspondence: WNE letters dated— 14/1 1/38; 31/5/40; 19/8/41 ; 7/9/41 . AG letters— 21/1 1/38; 21/.5/4(); 2/6/40; 15/6/41 ; 24/8/4L 2. BIOGRAPHY 5. See letter from Alice Gray 14 July 1932 for reference to Mr Balsillic. |MSS (c.l938) in Gray Correspondence, Palaeontology Library, BMNM). 6. Pinnacopora andersoni. Nicholson & Etheridge. 1K80: 273, pi. 17, fig. 6, from Woodland Point named in 1880 after the late Mr Thomas Anderson of Girvan, who was well known to Scotch geologists as having made extensive collections of the fossils of the Girvan area.' 7. Robert Gray (1826-1887). For biographical references see DNB, 23: 19; I'roc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh., 15: 1-5; Proc. nat. hist. Soc, Glasgow, 2 (N.S.) 1888: xxii-xxiii. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 227 8. Lectures to Ladies — Session 1 869: Introductory Lectures to the classes of English Literature & Physical Geography given in the Corporation Rooms, Glasgow by John Nichol, BA and John Young, MD. James MacLchose, Glasgow, 1869. 9. 59, George Street. This property is situated in the centre of the city in a street that was once said to have no rival in the world' as its breadth (115 ft.), space and magnificent vista was considered to be unparalleled'. During the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries it was considered to be a prime residential area and also contained the offices and principal premises of Scotland's insurance and banking businesses, (see James Grant, 1880-3: p. 139 in Old and New Edinburgh: Its History, its People, and its places. Cassell & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh, Vol. 2 384 pp. A letter of Alice Gray (10 October 1938) mentions that it was one of the original houses and probably dated from 1790. The first use of this as an address occurs on Mrs Gray's first letter to Bather dated 5 October 1892. The solicitors of Miss Edith M. H. Gray sold the house sometime during 1945; the Geol. Survey were able to gain access in March 1945 to pack the remaining fossil material. The house is now occupied by the Dunfermline Building Society (59a) and by T. & T. Clark, Publishers and the premises have obviously been considerably altered to permit present usage. 10. The 1891 census return records Mary and Alice as artists, Elizabeth as a daily governess, Edith as a teacher of music, and Robert as an electrical engineer's apprentice; there was also one resident general domestic servant, Edinburgh-born aged 22. 3. THE GRAY COLLECTION 11. Robert Gray (letter 17 September 1865). Balcletchic, 100yds below Penwhapple bridge (Mrs Gray has been there daily for months); Craighead quarry long exhausted; Penkill the spot opened first by myself. 12. Davidson (12 September 1879) records a letter from Mrs Gray that offers a few brachiopods that she had collected from Doularg Barr, a locality that she had not previously examined. 13. Number of localities listed in Lapworth = 23; by Mrs Gray = 32; and by Nicholson & Ethcridge = 40, but only 19 of these were included in the lists of the two others. 14. These are in the Map Room of the Palaeontology Library in a large folio labelled "Maps of Girvan District Showing the Localities at which Mrs Robert Gray Collected Fossils'; Maps with annotations by Alice Gray, 1937. Include Ayrshire sheets of the 6" Ord. Survey, 1910 Edition: L SW: L NW; L NE; LV NE; LV SW & SE; LVI NW; LVl SW; LVI SE; LVI NE; LXII NW; LXVI NW. 15. Penkill. This is the locality that was alleged to have been 'Lapworth's mistake'. The locality map prepared by Alice Gray bears a note: The rock showed on the E. bank of the Penkill Burn at this spot, where the bum is little larger than a tield drain. For many years locality invisible because grass and soil have covered t)vcr the small fragment of rock that could once be seen. 16. One of the earliest references to Mrs Gray's material in Davidson's Notebooks occurs under his entry for Lingula ramsayi: 'among a large number of examples collected by Mrs Gray'. Another is found under Triplesia Grayi: Mrs Gray considers this an uncommon species'. 17. Constant Prevost (1787-1856), the first Professor of Geology at the Sorbonne. 1831; his Lyellian approach to geology placed him in an unorthodox position within French geology; he was also among the first to stress the ecological significance of fossils. see Did. Sci. Biogr. II: 1974: 133-4. 18. Leopold von Buch, German geologist (1774-1853), involved in all aspects of geology; he published the first geological map of Germany and was also responsible for distinguishing ammonites from nautiloids. see Diet. Sci. Biogr. 2, 1970: 552-7. 19. — Yet, there is little evidence that such national fervour influenced Mrs Gray, although on one occasion (1 December 1910) she did comment to Dr Bather: 228 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS Pardon me for saying that I would prefer to see . . . your investigations on British specimens rather than on Foreign! — but that was solely due to her self-interest in getting her own material dealt with. 20. There are twenty-eight notebooks containing records of Davidson's correspondence between 1 January 1847 and 19 May 1884 in the Archive & MSS collections of the Palaeontology Library. BMNH. see List with dates in Appendix 1 p. 241. Dr C. H. Brunton and R J. Clcevcly intend to compile and publish an Index to these in the near future. 21. Alice Gray (31 March 1938) distinguished the contribution of the two Youngs; Professor John Young (1835-1902). Geological Survey of Scotland 1861-66; Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University 1866-1902; Keeper of the Hunterian Museum. In 1864. when crossing Girvan Water, he broke his knee after slipping on a boulder and as a result remained slightly lame throughout his life. Mr John Young (1823-1900). Assistant Keeper of flunterian Museum \H59 to 1899. For biographical notices of both see p 210-12 & p 183-K7 in MacNair & Mort (1908) History of the Geological Society of Glasgow. 22. For biographical references see: Proc. Geot. Assoc, London. 50 1939: 23.')-286. bibliogr., portr, pis. 19 & 20; Obit. Not. Proc. Row Soc. London.. Ser. B 92, 1921: xxxi-xl and others given in CIcevely. 1983: 179. 23. Lapworth letters re Sale of Gray Collection: 12 April 1914; 10 June 1914. 24. Letters concerning missing graptolites: Mrs Gray: 9 February 1917; 20 September 1919. C. Lapworth: 20 November 1898; 29 November 1989; 12 February 1917; 24 September 1919; 5 November 1919. Prof. Boulton: 12 October 1921; 8 November 1921. 25. H. A. Nicholson & R. Etheridge (1878-1880). A Monogruph of the Silurian Fos.uls of the Girvan District in Ayrshire, with special reference to those contained in the Gray Collection' . see Bibliography. 26. Benton (1979) listed all the species described in their monograph, but some of the species of grayi listed in the work had been named earlier by other workers in recognition of John Gray of Hagley Hall. nr. Stourbridge, who had made extensive collections from the Wenlock Limestone. 27. Henry Woodward (1832-1921). Keeper of Geology 1880-1901; his chief contribution was on Fossil Crustacea; for biographical refs. see Cleevely (1983: 316-17). 28. T. Rupert Jones (1819-1911). Palaeontologist who specialized in Entomostraca and Foramini- fera; Q. Jl. geol. Soc, Lond. 68, 1912: Iviii-lxi; list of other biographical refs. in CIcevely (1983: 166); a letter to Bather from W R Billings of Ottawa (26 June 1891) refers to that 'testy old Palaeontologist T. Rupert Jones!'. 29. See letters from Reed to FAB re study of trilobites in BMNH FR Cowper Reed Correspon- dence file: 21 August 1901; and Mrs Gray to FAB 11 April 1904. 30. See BMNH Correspondence Archive. F. R. C. Reed file: 35 letters from Reed between 17/12/ 1892 to 1.5/3/1920 & 17 letters from Bather in reply 22/7/1904 to 1.5/12/1925. 31 John Walter Gregory (27 January 1864-2 June 1932). FRS. FGS. An able and versatile geologist and palaeontologist, who joined the staff of the BMNH with Bather in 1887. Developed a keen interest in exploration following his immediate involvement in Museum expeditions (1887) and effectively became an explorer-geologist visiting most parts of the world. Resigned from BMNH when appointed to the Chair of Geology in Melbourne in 1901, but returned to UK in 1904 when given the same position at the new Glasgow University. Obit. Not. Fell. Roy. Soc, 1, 1932: 53-59. 32. In his review of .Schuchert's revision of the Palaeozoic Stelleroidea, Bather (1915: 425) commented that this book is not what Prof. Schuchert intended when he began' and reflected MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 229 something of his own feehngs with 'Congratulations ... on having at last got this laborious and valuable piece of work into the world'.'. 33. It may have been quite coincidental that Professor Schuehcrt mentioned the difhculties of identifying cystids when he wrote to Mrs Gray on 31 March 191 1 — but this was the period of the Gray/Bathcr/Rccd controversy. Schuchert's complaint that his museum duties interfered with his research and that as a result, instead of a monograph, he had had only sufficient time to prepare descriptions of the genera and their species, ought to have provided some support for Bather's position. 34. W. K. Spencer see Biogr. Mem. Fell. Roy. Soc, Lond. 2. 1956: 291-9; and Cleevcly, 1983: 273. 35. Wheelton Hind FGS (1860-21 June 1920). Eminent medical practitioner, who lived at Stoke- on-Trent, Staffs. His research un-ravelled the succession of Carboniferous rocks in North Staffs, and produced the standard monograph on the British Carboniferous Lainellibranchiu (1896-1905). Q.JI. geol. Soc. Lond. 73, 1917: Ivii-xlix: 77, 1921: Ixviii-lxix. 36. T. H. Withers. BMNH: Boy Attendant, 1898; Assistant, 1925; Curator, Fossil Cirripcdia 1925-44. Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond., No. 1515, 1954: cxliii-cxliv, 37. Withers declined to deal with further machaeridian specimens offered by Alice Gray (14 May 1934) since he had to devote all his time to the preparation of a Catalogue of Cretaceous Cirripedia . 38. For some reason. Bather always appears to have been ultra critical of J. R. Gregory's nomenclature and frequently expressed these views in print beginning with a letter (1897: 381), see also a paper on Eocidaris ( 1909). This antipathy towards Gregory may have been due to his sudden emigration to Australia in 1901, having spent much of his tenure at the BMNH on field-work, leaving Bather with additional responsibilities. However, it was very probably the result of Gregory's careless scientific work! 39. Dr Bather makes occasional references to seeing Mrs Gray on his visits to Edinburgh; see reference to his son's pleasure at Mrs Gray's interest in 'Rugger' (letters September 1921). 4. BATHER 40. W. D. Lang. 1934. Francis Arthur Bather (1863-1934). Obit Not. Row Soc. London. No. 3: 303-314; 1934. Dr. F. A. Bather, FRS. Nature. 133. (31 March 1934): 485-86 41. In addition of Lang's references, there are indications of Bather's relationship with his staff and other professional colleagues in the various contributions made to the tribute published in the Museums Journal. 34: 41^5. 42. P. E. Raymond, 1935. Memorial of F. A. BATHER. Proc Geol. Soc Amer. 1934: 173-186, portr., bibliogr. 43. Bert Hansen in his article in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography 2: 507 has emphasized Bather's use of the natural world to his fossil studies. 44. Bibliography: the only published bibliography Raymond (1935) is incomplete; this had been pre- pared by Withers at Raymond's request. Apparently, Bather had distributed his own list in 1915, but did not extend this further. My own [RJC] list comprises 258 publications: 18 of which were reviews and only 7 of which dealt with Gray material. It is worth noting that Bather did not publish anything at all in 1921 , the year he was dealing with the acquisition of Mrs Gray's material. On Echinodermata = 4."^ Stratigraphy = 9 Crinoids = 67 Museology/Tcchniqucs etc. = 42 Edriiiasterdids = 10 Taxonomv/Nomenclature = 19 Cystoids = 7 127 70 Obituaries = 8 Other Phylla (mainly Palaeozoic) Bibliography = 7 = 46 — 15 173 = 230 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. IRIPPAND Y. HOWELLS 45. Although Bather made frequent mention of his involvement in producing a Catalogue of the Cystoids & Crinoids for the BM material, this was never completed. The only evidence for this work is a series of printed/mss index cards now dispersed throughout the main reference collections of these groups in the Dept. of Palaeontology. 46. Aware of his reduced vigour, and knowing the customary slow rate of progress within the Museum, Bather felt that he would be able to achieve very little in his remaining four years before retirement. 47. Bather's involvement in local affairs is reported in his obituary published in the Wimbledon Borough News, 23 March 1934. 48. See Letters from Margaret Grant dated 9 January 1935 & 12 January 19.\5. She refers to that Lonely Intelligence' and also to the fact that he was known to them as 'the Dominic'. 5. BATHER/GRAY CORRESPONDENCE 49. Her daughter Alice, on the other hand, understood that Bather's museum duties prevented him from attending to their queries; see her letter of 22nd Feb. 1925. 50. Bather (16 January 1899) 'Your two specimens arrived safely ... but there was no light available for their examination till this morning.' Steam (1981: 213) quoted Riley's account of conditions at the BMNII m 1911. which mentioned that Electricity had been installed in the office studies in 1906. 51. A. S. Woodward, History of the Collections in the RMNH. p. ii of the Preface and the MSS. Annual Report on Bather's work for 19((4 indicate that he was involved in its compilation during this period. The correspondence tile with FRC Reed also shows that he was also engaged in dealing with material from Burma (at least 16 letters). 52. Starfish Bed. encouragement to preserve every fragment' Bather letter (4 October 19(17) 53. It must be realised that 'cystids' for Bather at that time would have included forms that would now no longer be called cystids, or cystoids. and have since been referred to chordates (see discussion of Jefferies p. 218). 54. This expression 'in fear & trembling occurs in another letter (20 January 1897) written a few years earlier by Mary Kingsley to Albert Giinther. a former Keeper of Zoology at the BMNH, when she submitted an advance copy of her book Travels in West Africa seeking a positive verdict for its publication. 55. Bather (1908: 76) referred to another aspect of this problem: I am constantly favoured by correspondents with specimens for which Ihey desire a name. Unfor- tunately. ... it is impossible to name them without spending mi>rc time in their preparation than we . . . can spare! I . . . point out . . . that it is our duty ... to name and arrange the specimens already in the museum. Consequently, unless our correspondents give us all pt)ssible help in the preliminary preparation of their specimens, they cannot hope for very satisfactory replies As one of the more enlightened palaeontologists of his time. Bather went on to vent his exasperation at those who 'seem only anxious to load science with a new species and a new name . . . they do not trouble about the lessons the fossil can teach!'. 56. This is a reference to the monograph Slammesgeschichte der Pelmalozoen. Erster Hand. Thecoidea und Cystoidea. 1899: x = 442 pp.. 18 pis. published in Berlin by Otto Jaekel as part of his synthesis of existing knowledge of fossil Crinoidea. Jaekel. a vertebrate palaeontologist, became Professor at Berlin (1890-1903), Vienna (1903), tireifswald (1904-28 and Pekin (1928). The 1899 work on the Cystoids is one of his most significant contributions to palaeontology. Apparently, Jaekel's work was either extremely thorough and of high quality, or else hastily put together, not particularly clear. superficial and of little real value. Although even these cursory papers have value, for in one he set up the Class Carpoidea (pers. commun. Dr R. P. S. Jefferies). 57. Part of Bather's replv to the Geological Societv when presented with their I.yell Medal. Proc. Geol. Soc, Lond. 67 (1911): xlv. MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 231 58. On the basis of Ihcir correspondence between 1892-1925, Bather and Reed nnaintained a friendly working relationship, assisting one another with identifications, providing material for research and collaborating in the preparation of papers. 59. In addition to the details provided by Steam, Dr Bather makes several references to the situation in his correspondence, eg. see letters in Gray Correspondence of January 1918. 60. This is presumed to be a reference to the specimen of Archaeopleryx lithographica Meyer found in the Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestone of a quarry near Pappenheim in Bavaria. It was purchased by the Museum from Dr Karl Haberlein in 1862 together with other material in his collection. As an intermediate' between reptiles and birds this fossil has been the subject of repeated investigation, and has recently been the subject of a wholly unjustified accusation of 'fakery'. An exhibition at the BMNH during 1987-88 demonstrated the scientific evidence for its authenticity, showing that its essentially reptilian skeleton had several avian features as well as the distinct impressions of feathers, (see Ostrom, J. H., 1984 In, Proceedings of the International Archaeopleryx Conference, Eichstatt, 1984: pp9-19). 61 . Air-raids: FRC Reed in a letter to Bather ( 1 5 September 1917) asked that some figured cystids belonging to the Geological Survey of India should be insured with Lloyds for £250 against the 'risk of air-craft' whilst they arc at the BMNH; he explains that he always takes out insurance against fire & now air-craft when he borrows other people's fossils. After being told by the Director (26 September) that no funds were available for such a course. Bather eventually returned the specimens (26 November) to the relative safety of Cambridge. 6. ACQUISITION 62. Donations of 1867, 1868 & 1869 recorded in Hunterian Museum register GLI Catalogue A numbers 30-89; other donations made in 1870, 1872 and 1873. 63. Smith-Woodward had annotated her previous letter with the comment Trustees . . . will not consider it until after the war — so time to think over proposal'. 64. The basis of Dr. Bather's calculation as to the value of material in the Gray Collection was as follows: Type material of New species at £1 Type specimens of New Varieties @ 0-10-0 Figured specimens @ 0- 5-0 Specimens selected as Gray Coll'n @ 2-0 according to the character @ 1-6 of the group @ 1-0 Duplicate/or Un-examined specimens @ M) or &' 0-6d 65. One wonders how much money the Grays would have spent travelling to Girvan over the years and in staying with relatives in the area? 66. This refers to W. Lewis Abbott material from the Ightham Fissure pres'd by Sir H. Howarth to British Museum. 67. The Gray's kept a detailed record of the despatch of each consignment and the cost of carriage, which was used to settle their account. 68 boxes were despatched to the BMNH according to their records. This book was presented to the BMNH by Alice Gray (2 June 1940) and is now kept with the Gray Mss in the Palaeontology Library. In this context, it should be noted that the BMNH paid for the carriage of all the material it acquired in I920's, 1937 and 1945. The costs for the despatch of other material sent by the Gray family to various specialists over many years must also have amounted to a reasonable sum. 68. 1st payment of £850 received on 15 July 1920; 2nd payment of £518 (incl. carriage) on 10 March 1921 ; 3rd payment of £800 on 8 July 1921; final amount of £100 on 9 March 1922; with various amount for carriage ending with that on 24 March 1922. 232 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANHY. HOWELLS 69. W. K. Spencer apparently had seen all the starfish & echinoderm material; F. R. C. Reed had been sent any trilobitcs and brachiopods that members of the family thought were new; & Archie Lamont had looked over the gastropods. 70. Lang arranged (22 April 1937) for R. H. Spires and an assistant Mr Covington, to visit Edinburgh and pack the collection; Alice Gray (4 May 1937) wrote; '. . . packing completed with minimal inconvenience. Mr. Spires most kind & considerate'. 71. Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Donations made by Mrs Robert Grey: Trilobites in 1907; Brachiopods & Rostroconchs in 1908; Machaeridians in 1909; Hyolithids and Machacridians in 1910. The BMNH presented duplicates of the algae Mastopora fava (Salter) in 1941 72. Amongst the material presented in 1937 was at least one specimen mentioned by Reed much earlier — the only illaenid hbngena from the Stinchar Limestone, Mmuntion (Reed. 1904). TTiis is of significance in extending the tvpe series bcvond that of the original purchase. [R. Tripp) 73. Letter from Davidson & Syme. Edinburgh (2 December 1944) to W. N. Edwards in E. H. Gray file. 7. GIRVAN FAUNA 74. Bluck (1985) considered the relationships of the Girvan sequence to the probable accrctionary prism of the Southern Uplands in his examination of the tectonic history of the Calcdonides in a wider context. Scott J. Geol. 21: 437^64. 75. James Nichol (1844) Guide to the Geology of Scotland . Edinburgh, see p. 261 for list of seven species: 1 sponge, 3 brachiopods, 1 ptcropod. 76. An anecdote told in a letter (To Fanny Hicks, 21 August 1848) concerning Sedgwick's visit in 1848, indicates that many of these specimens were gathered by a young girl, who had first shown them the quarry near Girvan. at a cost of Id each, see Clark & McKenny Hughes, 1890 The Life and Letters of the Rev'd. Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 2: 145. 77. F. W, M'Coy. 1851. On some New Silurian Mollusca. Pt. 1. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 7: 45-63. Orthoceras politum (M'Coy) from Glenwhapple; Bellerophon suhdecussatus (M'Coy) from Mulloch; Trochus Moorei (M'Coy) from Dalquharran. On some New Silurian Mollusca. Pt. 2. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 7: 387-409. Hemilhyris angustifrons (M'Coy) — Mulloch Hill; H. nasula (M'Coy) — Craighead Quarry; Orlhisina scotica (M'Coy) — Craighead; Holopella cincta (M'Coy) — Mulloch. 1852. On New lower Palaeozoic Mollusca. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist 10: 189-195 Murchisania cancellata (M'Coy) — Mulloch; M. simplex (M'Coy) — Craighead; Eccliomphaliis scotica (M'Coy) — Mulloch. 78. Sedgwick, A. & M'Coy, F. W. 1855. A Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks, with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge. 79. J. W. Salter (1820-1869). Britain's leading Palaeozoic palaeontologist during his lifetime and a specialist on trilobites. He began his natural history career as an apprentice to James dc Carle Sowerby — [and also married his daughter]. Salter also assisted both Murchison and Sedgwick and later trained the young Robert Etheridge. Difficulties over his position and status, partly arising from family matters, his health and involvement with religion, led to his resignation from his position at the Geological Survey. (See Secord, J. A., 1985 Spec. Puhl. Soc. Hist Mat. Hist, i 61-75) 80. Salter. J. W. 1855. List of some of the Silurian Fossils of Ayrshire pp. 170-178 |17 brachiopods; 1 bivalve; 13 gastropods; 6 Cephalopoda] with Murchison, R. I. 'On the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland'. Quart. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond. 7: 1.39-169. 81. Of the earlier workers [= describers], it would appear that only Nicholson and Etheridge had ever visited the Girvan District to make their own collections and observations. Virtuallv all MRS ELIZABETH GRAY 233 post-1950 publications have been written by geologists with a good field knowledge of the area and its formations. 82. Rough estimates of the Total number of Girvan species at each phase are: 1st exploratory" phase = 40, (7; 34; 37 species]; 2nd 'accumulative/acquisitive' phase = 560 [see list in Peach & Home]; 3rd 'interpretative" phase = c. 700. 83. To explain the presence of both internal and external moulds in many of these specimens, Goldring & Stephenson ( 1972) have suggested thai several of the Girvan 'echinoderms' were sediment-eaters and that the distortion of the moulds was compatible with measurements made on the modern Echinocardium cordalum showing that 30% of its test is occupied by gut contents. 84. Glyplocrinus globularis N. & E. 1881. 85. Ramsbottom recorded the following species from the Girvan district: A. thraivensis, A. drummockensis . C. heterohranchia . C. gracilis, D. grandiluhiis, P. scolicus. Protaxocrinus girvanensis. M. cirrifer, X. multiramus. X. sp., y4. elevatiis. D. craigheadensis. D. globularis. 86. The term 'calcichordate' is now thought to be inappropriate (see Jefferies et al 1987; 432). 87. Letter 14 June 1912. 88. See p. 224 for an account of Mrs Gray"s strong feelings for her cystids. 89. Girvan Rostroconch molluscs have been figured in Pojeta & Runnegar (1976: 54); no British author has dealt with the monoplacophorans from Girvan, although Hind and Reed did describe Tryblidium species as bivalves. 90. In his review of Ordovician pelecypods [= bivalves], Pojeta (1971) has explained that another reason is the mistaken belief that adequate material is not available, since the majority of Ordovician specimens are in the form of poorly preserved moulds and casts, which are only found on exposed limestone and sandstone surfaces. His review also provides other informa- tion on the motives and results of earlier workers on Palaeozoic bivalves. 91. Extract from Biography by Alice Gray [see Gray Correspondence, Vol. 1, 'letter" No. 23]: The letter from my mother to Professor Lapworth (20 November 1898) and his reply (29 November 1898), are of importance because they show that the 'Starfish Bed' known to-day \c. Wii^] is not the Starfish Bed described by him on p. 619 of the 'Girvan Succession'. I think I am correct in stating that Professor Lapworth did not visit the Girvan District after my mother found her 'Starfish Bed' and that he never saw her 'Starfish Bed'. It ought, perhaps, to be placed on record that we, as a family, searched in vain for Professor Lapworth's Starfish Bed in 'an old quarry'; also that the owner of South Threave Farm at the time, Mr Patcrson, did not know of any old quarry, on cither his own properly or on neighbouring land, answering to the description . . . although he knew Prof, Lapworth and saw him occasionally when . . . working . . . the . . . geology of the Girvan District Alice Gray also expressed doubts over any suggestion that nearby overgrown depressions could once have been Lapworth's 'quarry' for the family had frequently worked in that neighbourhood and would have found the site. 92. Reed's monograph on the Girvan trilobites (1903-6, I9I4) and Bather's work on the Cystoids deal mainly with Starfish Bed material; Cocks (1978) in his review of Davidson's brachiopods records more than 30 species from the Bed; and Jefferies (1986: 192)) referred to the two species of cornutes that have frequently been preserved as the 'youngest cornutes known'. 8. CONCLUSIONS 93. The Edinburgh Census return for 1891 records I domestic servant in the household; in the census returns for 1851 and 1861 her father's household at Girvan included several servants, but only one in each census was listed as a house servant, the others were also farm labourers, or dairymaids. 94. Mrs Gray in a letter to Davidson (2nd Nov. 1876): . . . from what I hear from our Scotch geologists, it still seems an open question whether the position, or sequence of the Girvan Beds is really determined. 234 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP ANDY. HOWELLS 95. Letter to Rosic' dated 13 November 1921 in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; apparently in answer to a reference concerning certain books, probably by Mrs Asquith in the light of the following comment. Mrs Gray wrote: We arc all sick of Mrs Asquith!' and went on to mention a clever burlesque in Punch of one of her books published under the heading A brilliant Little Innocent Abroad'. 96. Mrs Gray's reply to the .suggestion of Dr Traquair c. 1878-80 (see p. 4 of Alice Gray's Mss biography of her mother) 97. See letters to Bather dated 23 November & 17 December 1910 re borrowing Jaeckel's work on cystideans; and Bather's letter 31A7/1900 advising her to refer to Lankester's Treatise on Zoology. 98. Her visits to Prague and BMNH referred to in Bather correspondence (24 July 1907). 99. Bather's letter (22 June 1919) is in response to Mrs Gray's questions as to the function of some unusual crinoid ossicles that she had found at Craighead. 100. 30 October 1876, puzzled over the difference in ornamentation shown by a large l.inguta occurring at Baldatchie from others found at Craighead. 101. Orthis calligramma Dalman (see her letter of 1 1 February 1882); the material has since been recognised as Orthambonites plavfairi (Reed), Hesperorthis criiigensis (Reed) and Dolerorthis ?sp. Among other examples is Strophomena corrugatelta Davidson which included several unrelated brachiopods that had independently developed strongly wrinkled ornament; these are now described as: Gunnarella corrugatelta Davidson, Gunnaretla undulala (M'Coy); Rafinesquina sp.. Palaeoslrophomena kilbuchoensis (Davidson); Ptychoglyptus ? sp., Lepto- strophia jamesoni (Reed). 102. The old gutta percha rubbers used to produce casts of the Girvan fossils for Bather and Spencer have been replaced by silicone and latex rubbers, which are far more fluid and flexible, allowing more of the Hner details of ornament to be reproduced. It is also hoped that such materials will provide more permanent replicas. 103. See the recent work of Jefferies on cornutes; Donovan on crinoids; and Paul on cystoids. 104. Walter R. Billings (7-1920). An amateur fossil collector in Canada, who was particularly interested in crinoids. He worked in the Chief Architects Office. Ottawa and was able to obtain material from various new fossil sites as they were discovered during excavations. He corresponded with Bather about fossil echinoderms from 1890 to 1916; lent most of his better specimens for description; provided the 'gossip of a superficial amateur' (see letter 14 May 1897) and acted as a reporter, mediator and link for Bather with specialists throughout North America. 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Mus. nat. Hi.'it (hist. Ser.; ® British Museum (Natural History). 1990 ISBN 0 565 09013 5 Historical Series ISSN 0068-2306 Vol 18. No. 1, pp 1 - 1 13 British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD Issued 3 1 May 1 990 Typeset by J&L Composition Ltd, Filey, North Yorkshire Printed in England by Henry Ling Ltd, The Dorset Press, Dorchester. Dorset ^liiA? Riill Hr Mils. Nut. Hisl (Hisl. Scr ) 18(1) 1-23 Issued 31 M;iv IWll i" ' P collected during the cruises of ~ 7 JUN 1990 HMS Porcupine in 1869 and! ^J^W^^ 1870, with notes on the Norman collection of invertebrata and its / acquisition by the British ^y ^^'^ ^0^5^ Museum (Natural History) A. L. RICE , Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, Wortnley, Godalming, Surrey, U.K. CONTENTS Introduction 1 The Porcupine cruises 3 The fate of the decapods 8 The Norman Collection' and its acquisition by the British Museum (Natural History) 17 Acknowledgements 20 Appendix. Authorship attribution of the species 20 References 21 INTRODUCTION In preparation for a report on the decapod crustaceans collected during recent I.O.S. investigations in the Porcupine Seabight to the southwest of Ireland, previous collections from the same region have been reviewed. The earliest of these was obtained during a series of oceanographic cruises to the west of the British Isles made in the paddle gun vessel H.M.S. Porcupine (Fig. 1) in the summer of 1869. These cruises were very significant in the development of deep sea biology since they included the collection of the deepest dredge samples obtained prior to the Challenger Expedition of 1872-76. The 1869 cruises, along with the short cruise of H M.S. Lightning the previous year and that of the Porcupine to the Mediterranean in 1870, were the subject of Charles Wyville Thomson's classic volume, The Depths of the Sea, published in 1873 shortly after the Challenger began her epic voyage. Thomson's book summarised the slate of oceanographic knowledge at the time and reviewed the main results of the Lightning and Porcupine cruises. However, despite the uniqueness of the deep biological samples, large parts of the collections were never worked up adequately. In particular, with the A. 1 . RICE Fig. 1 HMS Porcupine. A wooden, two-masted paddle gun-vessel, built at Deptford Dockyard in 1844, the Porcupine was 141 feet long and had a displacement of 490 tons. This rather poor photograph, apparently the only one of the ship in existence, is reproduced by kind permission of the Hydrographcr to the Navy. parts of the collections were never worked up adequately. In particular, with the exception of the isopods. very few of the crustaceans were reported upon at all except in The Depths of the Sea. In the case of the decapods, Thomson mentioned three previously undescribed crab species. DorhyrKhus thomsom (as Doryrichiis. see Holthuis, 1962). Rochinia carpenteri (as Amalhia) and Cymonnmus granulatu.s (as Ethu.sa). Thomson made it clear that he had been furnished with these names by A. M. Norman to whom the study of the crustaceans had been entrusted. Norman had recognised these species as new. but neither before the appearance of Thomson's book, nor subsequently, did he publish descriptions of them. The Porcupine collections also included a fourth un- described crab species, Ebalia nu.x. which was not mentioned by Thomson and first appeared in print as a nomen nudum in a preliminary account of the voyage of the Travailleur (Norman. 1880) and was subsequently figured in Milne-Edwards (1883) and described in Pocock (1889). In the ensuing confusion the names have been variously attributed to Norman, Thomson. Norman in Thomson. Milne-Edwards, and Norman in Milne-Edwards (see Appendix I). Phis paper attempts to explain how this confusion arose and to establish the correct authorship of the species concerned. In dealing with these questions I have inevitably become embroiled with the "Norman Collection", a large collection of crustaceans and many other invertebrate groups, which came to the British Museum (Natural History) around the turn of the century. The origins and history of this important collection do not seem to have been properly documented in the past; brief details, particularly of the chronology of its acquisition by the Museum, are therefore provided. NOMENCLATURE OF CRABST THE PORCUPINE CRUISES Following the success of the short cruise of the Lightning in 1868, the larger and more suitable Porcupine made three separate cruises during the summer of 1869, the first under the scientific direction of J. G. Jeffreys, the second under C. W. Thomson and the third apparently under the joint leadership of Thomson and W. B. Carpenter (see Thomson, 1873; Deacon, 1971; Rice, 1986). Fig. 2 Track of the first cruise of HMS Porcupine in 1869, with the station positions marked. Redrawn from Thomson, 1873, plate II. The first cruise (Fig. 2) lasted from 18 May to 13 July during which the Porcupine worked along three loops to the west and north of Ireland; one across the northern part of the Porcupine Seabight and back to Galway, a second running west from Galway across the Porcupine Bank into the Rockall Trough and back to Killibegs, and a third 4 A. 1,. RICK across the northern part of the Rockall Trough to the Rockall Bank and back to Lough Swilly, after which the ship docked in Belfast. A total of 32 official dredging stations were worked, down to 808 fathoms ( 1480m) on the first 'loop', to 1230 fathoms (2250m) on the second, and to 1476 fathoms (27(K)m) on the third. An additional even deeper dredge haul (station 11, 1630 fathoms) was apparently not successful since although Thomson (1873, p. 142) included it in a table of dredging stations, neither he nor Jeffreys (1869) mention it in their respective narratives. A number of dredge hauls, mostly in rather shallow water but including the first haul of the cruise at a depth of 1 10 fathoms (200m) some 40 miles off Valentia, were not given station numbers. 10' 5^ Fig. 3 Track of the second cruise of HMS Porcupine in 1869. Redrawn from Thomson, 187.^, pl.itc III Following the arrival of the Porcupine in Belfast. Thomson took over the scientific direction from Jeffreys and the ship sailed once more on 17 July for the second cruise (Fig. 3). The original intention had been to continue the work of the first cruise to the east and north of Rockall to join up with the work in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel accomplished from the Lightning the previous year. However, since dredging had already been accomplished successfully down to almost 1500 fathoms, with abundant animal life having been found at this depth, a new plan was adopted. Instead of proceeding to the northern area where only relatively modest soundings were known to occur, Thomson successfully applied to the Hydrographer. G. H. Richards, for permis- sion to work to the south-west of Ireland where, some 250 miles west of Ushant. a sounding of 25(K) fathoms was shown on the chart. Since there were few reliable soundings deeper than about 3000 fathoms anywhere in the ocean, Thomson reasoned that if they could demonstrate the existence of life down to 2500 fathoms '. . . the general question would be virtually solved for all depths of the ocean, and any further NOMENCLATURE OF CRABS 5 investigation of its deeper abysses would be mere matter of curiosity and of detail' (Thomson, 1873, p. 93). After calling at Queenstown to coal and to pick up Carpenter's son, P. H. Carpenter, the Porcupine sailed once more on 19 July and proceeded in a roughly south-westerly direction, dredging at relatively shallow depths as she crossed the Great Sole Bank and the unsuspected very rough topography of the upper parts of King Arthur Canyon to the south of the Goban Spur. Finally, on 22 and 23 July two successful dredge hauls were obtained on the abyssal plain south of the Pendragon Escarpment at 2435 and 2090 fathoms respectively (stations 37 and 38), depths which were not to be exceeded until February 1874 as H.M.S. Challenger saiicd from the Canaries towards the Antilles. The Porcupine now steamed northwards once more, towards the southwestern tip of Ireland, taking a series of four dredge samples on the Goban spur (Stations 39^2) and three (43^5) on the eastern flank of the Porcupine Seabight. After coaling at Haulbowline on 2 August the vessel reached Belfast on Wednesday 4. On August 7 Thomson summarised the results of the cruise in a letter to A. M. Norman (see Mills. 1980) which was presented at the annual meeting of the British Association in Exeter and published in the Annual Report (Rep. Brit. Ass. 1869(1870): 1 15). That Norman should work on the crustaceans collected was already decided, for Thomson ends his letter T trust to your contributing the Crustacea, which will be sent to you as soon as possible.' 10' 5' 0" Fig. 4 Track of the third cruise of HMS Porcupine in 1S69. Redrawn from Thomson, 1873, plate IV. Having been joined by W. B. Carpenter, and having had her boilers cleaned out, the Porcupine sailed from Belfast on August 1 1 , making for Stornoway from where she was to begin the third and final cruise of 1869 to extend the work of the Lightning the previous year (Fig. 4). The ship left Stornoway on August 15 and returned three weeks A. L. RICE /Tr^ )r NOMENCLATURE OF CRABS Fig. 5 The Rev. Canon Alfred Merle Norman. 1831-1918. Both from undated portrait photo- graphs: (left) published in f'roceedings of The Royal Society of London 1919 (Obituary Notiees) B 90: xlvi-1 (see Stebbing, 1919); (right) from portrait collection of Library Services BM (NH). 8 A. I.. RICE later, having called at Thorshaven and Lerwick and having worked 41 dredgingstations between the Faeroes and Shetland and four to the east of Shetland. Finally, on September 15 the Porcupine returned to Belfast where the scientists left her. Following the success of the 1869 cruises the Porcupine was made available once more in 1870. this time for work in the Mediterranean. As before, the total time available was to be divided into separate cruises, the first part, from Falmouth to Gibraltar, to be under the scientific direction of Jeffreys, and the Mediterranean cruise to be overseen by Carpenter and Thomson. In the event Thomson was taken ill and did not participate in the 1870 cruises. The ship left Falmouth on July 4 and, after experiencing fog and contrary winds in the western Channel, eventually reached the continental slope to the south of the Great Sole Bank three days later. Between 7 and 1 1 July a series of nine dredge hauls were taken in the region between 48°06' and 48°38'N and ^^l 1' and Kfl.S'W. This region is now known to be highly dissected by canyons where a modern oceanographer would be very reluctant to shoot a dredge or trawl for fear of losing the gear. In the relative ignorance provided by traditional rope soundings the Porcupine seamen and scientists cheerfully fished their gear repeatedly in the area at depths ranging between 93 and 717 fathoms (170m and 1312m), apparently retrieving the dredge safely on each occasion and only twice obtaining an unsatisfactory catch! Jeffreys was now anxious to obtain some dredge hauls in the neighbourhood of the very deep stations sampled the previous year. Unfortunately, however, the ship encountered bad weather and had to make for Vigo, all of the remaining Porcupine samples being from off the Iberian Peninsula and within the Mediterranean. Before reaching Gibraltar Jeffreys worked a further 30 'official' dredge stations together with u number in shallow waters which were not given station numbers. At Gibraltar he handed over to Carpenter who took a total of 23 hauls in the western Mediterranean before returning to Cowes on October 8. THE FATE OF THE DECAPODS In accordance with the intention expressed in Thomson's letter mentioned above, the vast majority of the Lightning and Porcupine crustaceans were sent to the Rev. A.M. Norman (Fig. 5). then serving as Rector of the coal-mining parish of Burnmoor in the dioceses of Durham (Stebbing. 1919; Mills. 1980). Most of this material remained in Norman's care for at least 28 years, eventually reaching the British Museum (Natural History) in the 'Norman Collection" between 1898 and 1911.' By the time Thomson was preparing The Depths of the Sea, Norman had obviously carried out at least a preliminary examination of most of the decapod material collected and had apparently begun to prepare some descriptive texts which were made available ' Perhaps not surprisingly. Norman, and probably the other specialists to whom the samples were sent, did not receive all of the material collected. P. Herbert Carpenter, for instance, presented tive Dorhxmhits thommni. four Mufttda teriuimana. and one Rtxhiniti ctirpenteri Ui the Museum in 1S82 (registered under H2 14). These specimens are labelled as collected from the Pi)nupim' in the ■Ni)rth Atlantic, warm area', and must therefore have been taken during the third cruise in l,Sb'> in which Carpenter participated. He presumably took them for his own collection as souvenirs of the cruise and i1 is very likely that other material similarly fouiul its way into private collections. Some of the material that followed the more ofhcial routes similarly failed to hnd its way into the national collectums. the classic example being the molluscs which went to Jeffreys anil were ultimately purchased by the .Smithsonian Institution ahmg with the rest of Jeffreys' collection (Waren. WKO). NOMENCLATURE OF CRABS 9 to Thomson. On the basis of the information provided to him, Thomson recorded the discovery of the following three new crab species." Dorhynchus thomsoni Thomson, 1873 Thomson's treatment of this species consisted of the following short passage (p. 175). "A pretty little stalk-eyed form Dorynchus ihomsoni, Norman (Fig. 34), small and delicate, and very distinct from all previously described species of the genus, is very widely distributed. This crab, from its long spiny legs and light body, very often comes up entangled on the part of the rope which had been passing over the ground.' Fig. 6 Thomson's original, and rather poor, illustration of Dorhynchus ihomsoni. (From The Depths oflhe Sea. tig. .^4, p. 174). This is a rather curious statement since this was the first mention of the genus Dorynchus (later corrected to Dorhynchus (see Holthuis, 1962), so that there were no 'previously described species of the genus'. This almost certainly indicates that Norman had initially intended to place the new species in an existing genus, probably Inachus. but decided to establish the new genus after Thomson had already incorporated the original concept. Alone, the text would certainly not establish the identify of the species beyond doubt, but the illustration (Fig. 6), while not good, is certainly identifiable and can be associated with the specimen (B.M.(N.H.) reg. no. 1907.8.28.5) on which the figure is based. Following Thomson, the authorship of this species was consistently attributed to Norman for almost a century until its correct attribution, to Thomson, was established by Holthuis (1962) and the illustrated specimen was designated as the lectotype in Christiansen (1969). The species is thus one of the few examples of a specific epithet which is legitimately based on the same name as that of its author. ' From the preliminary account of the 1S7(I Porcupine cruise by Carpenter and Jeffreys (1870) it is clear that Norman originally intended to give quite different names to two of these species; Elhusa granulaiu was to have been /:'. mirahilis. while Amalhia Carpenleri was to have been A. Jeffreys:. However, since neither of these original names were accompanied by descriptions they are both nomina nudii. 10 A. L. RICE Rochinia carpenteri (Thomson, 1873) Following on from the Dorhynchiis passage, Thomson wrote (p. 176) "Another handsome new species, Amathia carpenteri. Norman (Fig. 35), was common in the sandy chalk-mud of the "Holienia ground". The genus ha^^^^ .1 V F.JI 'id Sy ./v- / /T' Fig 6 ^ Fig. 9 Illustrations of Cymonomiix normani (Fig. I) and Cymonomus j^ranulalus (Figs. 2-6) by Albany Hancock whichi appeared in l.ankcstcr (1903). 14 A. L. RUE Second, Lankester pointed out that Norman's quoted passage was somewhat misleading. Norman had intimated that the two forms were hathymetritally separated, the 'modified' form being the deeper living. But Lankester demonstrated that the specimens which Norman had available to him from the Porcupine cruises of 1869 came from overlapping depth ranges, the normal form having been taken at stations in depths ranging from 106 to 808 fathoms (I93-I471m), while the three specimens of the modified form were from 542 and 705 fathoms (986-1 283m). Instead, llankester thought that the two forms were geographically separated. All of the known examples of the modified" form at the time of Lankester's study were from northern localities, the three specimens collected from the Porcupine being from the 'Holienia ground' at about 59°30'N, while a single specimen had been taken by the Ingolf south west of Iceland at a depth of 486 fathoms (885m) and was dealt with later in Hansen (1908). The 'normal' form, on the other hand, had been encountered only at much more southerly localities, from south-west of Ireland to off north-west Africa and the Mediterranean. Furthermore, Norman's quoted text had included the statement that the eyes in the modified form 'terminate in a strong rostrate point. No longer used as eyes, they now assume the functions of a rostrum.' This, wrote Lankester, had naturally led to the assumption that 'their terminations become combined into a strong pointed beak'. Third, Lankester claimed that the specimen illustrated in Milne-Edwards" 'Recueil . . .", and later in the Travailleur and Talisman report, had had the eyes removed before being given to the artist. While these illustrations are not very clear, and are certainly very inferior to the excellent ones by Hancock reproduced in Lankester"s paper (Fig. 9), I believe that Lankester was mistaken and that the eyes are included. In any case, this point is relatively unimportant to the general problem of the nomenclature and authorship of the two Cymonomus species since Milne-Edwards' illustrations clearly show the normal form with a well-developed rostrum.'. Having thus carefully examined the published data and the available material, Lankester provided an excellent comparison of the species concerned, including C. quadratus, clearly describing his new species C. normani. This description was based on the three Porcupine specimens taken at stations 47 and 88 though Lankester did not designate a holotype. However, Lankester introduced an element of confusion himself, for in two places (pp. 444 and 455) he refers to a description of granulalus supposedly published by Norman in the Annual Report of the British Association for 1873. Even if such a paper had been published it would have been pre-dated by The Depths of the Sea which was published earlier the same year. In fact, however, the paper does not appear to have been published, even by title only as was not unusual at that time. The quotation from Thomson's book, reproduced above, must therefore be considered the first published description associated with the name F.thusa granulaui. This passage clearly associates Norman's name with the form taken off Valentia. with a well-developed rostrum and well-separated eyes with smooth corneal regions. Since this unequivocally identifies the species concerned, and is equally unequivocally in the words of Norman rather than Thomson (see Article 50, p. 91 in the Inlernalional Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Third Edition, 1985) its correct attribution should be Cymonomus granulali4s (Norman in Thomson, 1873). ' Similarly irrclcvanl. though nevertheless remarkable, was the erroneous depiction of chelate fourth and fifth pcreiopods, pointed out by Lankester, in the first published illustration of Cymnnomm quadmins which appeared in Milne-F.dwards and Bouvier (19()2). NOMENCLATLIREOFC'RABS 15 Kbalia nux Milne-Kdwards, 1883 This fourth crab species in the Porcupine collection which Normun recognised as previously undescrihed was not mentioned in The Depths of ihe Sea. The Hrst published indication that the species had been taken from the Porcupine was in Norman's (1880) Travailleur report where 'Ebalia nux, Norman' was mentioned in a list but was not accompanied by a description. The species similarly appeared as a nomen nudum in Milne-Edwards (1881) and in Marion (1883). In 1883 a Travailleur specimen was illustrated in Milne-Edwards' 'Recueil . . .' and was labelled Ebalia nux (Norm.) (Fig. 10). The first written description was provided by Pocock (1889) in an account of the crustaceans collected off the coast of Ireland in the Flying Fox (= '? Flying Falcon, see Rice, 1986) in July 1889. Pocock had joined the staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in 1885 and had siicceeded E. J. Miers in charge of the Crustacea Section, being himself succeeded by W. T. Caiman in 1903. During his period at the Museum, Pocock worked mainly on the arachnids and myriapods, writing very few papers on the crustaceans. He was therefore not part of the rather close-knit marine biological establishment of the time, nor of the international carcinological community, whereas Norman was a central figure in both groups. This almost certainly contributed to the acrimonious series of published exchanges between the two men which followed the publication of the Flying Fox report. In dealing with Fhalia nux, Pocock was unaware of any previous descriptions but had before him material of the species collected from the Porcupine in the Mediterranean in 1870 and already deposited at the B.M.(N.H.) by Norman. He accordingly referred to the species as 'F.balia nux, Norman, MS', described it and designated as types 'an adult male and female specimen belonging to the series dredged in the Mediterranean.' Only a week or two after the Flying Fox cruise, the hydrographic survey vessel HMS Research, with G. C. Bourne aboard, had obtained a series of trawl samples in the same general area. When Bourne (1890) reported the results of this cruise he enlisted Norman's assistance and quoted some of the notes provided. These included a list of Porcupine and Travailleur localities at which E. nux had been obtained and the remarks that "Mr. Pocock seems to have been unaware that F.balia nux had been admirably figured by Prof. A. Milne Edwards', and that Profs A. Milne Edwards and Marion courteously recognised my MS. name F.balia nux, but if that is rejected it will stand as Ebalia nux. A. Milne Edwards' and not, bv implication, Ebalia nux Pocock. Pocock (1890a) saw this as a charge of 'lack of courtesy for not giving what he [Norman] considers due acnowledgement to the name he applied to the above Crustacean' (somewhat provocatively referred to in the title of Pocock's note as 'F.balia nux, Milne- Edwards.') He went on to claim that in an effort to locate the original description of Ebalia nux he had written to Norman but received no reply, thus turning the charge of discourtesy back onto Norman, but carefully avoiding saying so. Norman's (1890) response was swift and severe. After reproducing both Pocock's original reference to E. nia and his own notes quoted by Bourne, he suggests that Pocock had over-reacted to the latter due to his own guilty conscience. He goes on to admonish him as an Assistant at the British Museum, who has a magnificent library at his elbow', for failing to refer to Milne-Edwards' (1883) illustration of the species in the 'Recueil . . .' 'If he did not consult that work [wrote Norman], he ought to have done so. If he did consult it ... he had no excuse for writing Ebalia nux, n. sp," instead of either 'Ebalia nux. Norman, MS., or 'Ebalia nux, A. Milne-Edwards." Now Norman takes exception lo Pocock's designation as the type material specimens collected from the Porcupine which had been sent to the Museum when E. J. Miers had been writing up the Challenger brachyurans. 'Whether this was a courteous act [wrote Norman] let others judge'. Finally, Norman deals with the problem of Pocock's letter rather lamely. 16 A. L. RICE Fig. 10 The plate illustrating F.halm mix in Milnc-F.dwards (1883), Recueil de figures des Cruslaces nouveaux ou pen connus. NOMENCLATURE OF CRABS 17 claiming that if he did not reply to it this was not through lack of courtesy but simply because he was too busy with his professional duties as a cleric. In reply, Pocock {\H90b) rejected the suggestion that he had a guilty conscience since, he wrote, he had had no idea that Norman would take exception to his treatment of the species. Far from a discourtesy, he felt that his designation of Norman's specimens as types of the species was 'both expedient and just.' Finally, he dealt with his own failure to refer to Milne-Edwards' illustration of E. nu.x in the 'Reciieil . . .' (1883), pointing out that despite Norman's reference to the Museum's 'magnificent library" neither it nor the libraries of the Royal, Linnean or Zoological Societies contained a copy of this work. Furthermore he quoted a letter from Milne-Edwards stating that only 50 copies of the 'Recueil . . .' had been produced, that most of these had been sent to naturalists then working in carcinology (not including Pocock, of course), that only a few copies had been offered for sale and that the work had consequently become almost unobtainable.'^ Under the circumstances, suggested Pocock, he could hardly be blamed for not having referred to it. As far as I am aware, this was the end of the published exchanges, for in the next volume of the Annals and Magazine both protagonists published on other topics. Norman continued to be attributed consistently with the authorship of E. nux for a further 86 years (see Turkay, 1976), though as early as 1918 Pesta had suggested that it should really go to Milne-Edwards. Whether or not this is so depends upon whether Milne-Edwards (1883) counts as a true publication, for if it does not, Pocock is the author and the types are the Porcupine specimens which he designated. However, although Milne-Edwards' action in producing the 'Recueil . . .' would be deplored today, the fifty copies produced were 'obtainable, when first issued, free of charge or by purchase', therefore fulfilling the criteria for publication in Article 8(a)(2) of the Inlernalional Code of /.oological Nomenclature. Moreover, Dr. L. B. Holthuis pointed out to me that the 'Recueil' has already been recognised nomenclaturally since at least two names published in it {Panlomus and P. parvulus) have been placed on the Official List. Consequently, the correct attribution of the species is F.halia nux A. Milne- Edwards, 1883, and the type must be a specimen from the Travailleur material in Paris, preferably that on which Milne-Edwards' illustration was based. THE 'NORMAN COLLECTION' AND ITS ACQUISITION BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) As a young Curator of Crustacea Malacostraca at the British Museum (Natural History) in the mid 196()s, 1 was aware of the 'Norman Collection' as one of the larger 'named' collections within my care. The specimens were distributed through the sectional collection, but the most tangible evidence of its original unity was, and is, a single large ledger in which some 50,000 specimens were registered under the general accession number 1911:11:8. A much smaller number of specimens identified as having been purchased from Norman appear in the general register at various times between 1898 and 191 1 , and a few even before this period. The official History of the Collections up to 1900 (British Museum (Natural History) 1906) contains a reference to the purchase of the Norman Collection in 1898 and this is repeated in Steam's (1981) excellent general account of the history of the Natural History Museum. Otherwise, the acquisition of the ■" A note lo this effect, apparently in Pocock's handwnting and with a reference to Milnc-Hdwards' letter, is attached lo the British Museum (Natural History) copy of the Recueil . . .' which was obtained subsequently. 18 A. L. RICE collection does not seem to have been documented and the following notes are an attempt to rectify this.^ Alfred Merle Norman was born at Exeter in 1831 and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a B. A. in 1852 and was ordained in 1856. Asa cleric he worked almost entirely in the Durham diocese, being Curate at Houghton-le- Spring from 1864 to 1866 and Rector of the coal-mining parish of Burnmoor from 1866 to 1895. He had been appointed Hon. Canon of Durham in 1885 and returned to Houghton in 1895 as Rector and Rural Dean. He retired on medical grounds in 1898, moving to Berkhamstead where he lived until his death in 191S. Norman had already shown an interest in natural history during his school days and published an account of the molluscs of Oxfordshire in 1851 while he was still an undergraduate. The two years before his ordination were spent on the Isle of Cumbrae and here he began his lifelong interest in marine biology. During the 186()s he was active in the British Association Dredging Committees, publishing many of the results of dredging in northern waters and dealing with a wide range of taxonomic groups. In the final Shetland dredging report published in 1868, for instance. Norman dealt with the Crustacea, Tunicata. Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa and Porifera. In 1882 he completed Bowerbank's unfinished Ray Society volume on the sponges, based partly on his own collection, and in 1890 he published a "Revision of the British Mollusca", having been at one time the President of the British Conchological Society. Norman"s main interest, however, was in the crustaceans and he published numerous papers on a wide range of crustacean groups, including an account of The Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall published in collaboration with Thomas Scott in 1906. Norman was a central figure in British marine science from the 1860s to the end of his life. He also had strong contacts with foreign specialists, particularly in France, being invited to participate with John Gwyn Jeffreys in the cruise of the Travailleur in 1r permission to consult and quote from these dt)cumcnlary sources. Nf)MENrLATURnOFCRABS 19 guarantee should be drawn up to protect both parties, arranging for a second £500 to be paid 3 years later, if Norman was still alive, and the balance to be paid on his death. Flower was not keen on such an arrangement and pointed out that, having paid for the first part of the collection, the Museum had no guarantee that the remainder of the material would remain in its current state and not deteriorate for various reasons. On April 16 Norman replied somewhat defensively. He admitted that his catalogues may not be absolutely correct since some of the listed material might already have become dried up or lost. However, such possible losses would be more than compen- sated for by the fact that he intended to continue amassing material as long as he was able. Moreover, he wrote, the collection already contained items not in the catalogues - including Molluscs dredged by the French expedition in the 'Talisman' purchased [for £14] from the Marquis de Folin." Two days later he wrote to Flower yet again, still concerned that he should have some guarantee that the Trustees of the Museum would not renege on the agreement. In Flower's reply, dated 21 April, the Director still resisted having a formal guarantee, saying that he was sure that Norman 'will find the Trustees as safe as the Bank of England, even when not prompted by me'. This was somewhat prophetic, for Flower's Directorship was to last only a further four months. He was already 66 years old and his by no means robust constitution had suffered a collapse the previous October. He resigned his post in August 1898, to be succeeded by E. Ray Lankester, and died the following July. The arrangement of the purchac of the Norman collection was therefore among his final official acts, the results being presented at two of the last few monthly Trustees meetings that he attended. At the first of these, on 23 April 1898, Flower simply reported that Norman had offered his collection of more than 10,000 species of mainly marine invertebrates for a total of £2000, to be paid for in instalments as they were delivered to the Museum. This was approved by the Trustees and Norman's letter to Flower accepting the arrangement was written the same day. At the next meeting, on 25 June 1898, Flower was able to report the receipt of the first instalment of the collection, including some terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, totalling some 26,191 specimens. The Trustees approved the payment of the first £500. The receipt of the second instalment was reported to the Trustees by Lankester on 24 March 1900. This instalment included the remainder of Dr. Norman's collection of British Echinodermata, 3000 species of Entomostraca, 49 species of Mediterranean Copepods, 925 microscopic preparations of Entomostraca, a large series of Polychaeta, and collections of Tunicata, Mollusca, Crustacea, Cirripedia, Anthozoa etc.' The Trustees approved the payment of a second £500. No further Norman material came to the Museum during Lankester's turbulent Directorship and, as noted above, the publication of the second edition of the 'Museum Normanianum' in 1906 suggests that Norman was actively increasing his collection at this time. However, In January 1910. Sydney Harmer, the Keeper of Zoology, was able to report to Lankester's successor, Lazarus Fletcher, the receipt of the third instalment of the Norman collection, consisting of 'about 3,290 specimens of sponges (including 195 types and 185 co-types), and of a number of specimens of Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, Crustacea, etc' At the Trustees meeting of 22 October 1910 approval was given for the payment of £200 for this third instalment, the Trustees presumably being made aware that the outstanding instalment was much larger. This fourth and final instalment was received in November 1911 and included the 50,000 crustaceans mentioned above. A payment of £500 was authorized immediately and the payment of the final £300, being the balance of the originally agreed £2000, was 20 A. L. RICE approved in June 1912, presumably after the extent and state of the fourth instalment had been ascertained. ACKNOWLEDCEMENTS 1 am very grateful to Dr. L. B. Holthuis of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, for his valuable constructive criticism of an early draft of this paper. I am also grateful to the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) for permission to consult, and quote from, the Museum's archives, and to the staffs of the libraries and the Crustacea Section of the Museum for their unstinting assistance. APPENDIX. AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES The following restricted synonomics of the four crab species dealt with gives an indication of the range of authorship attribution in the literature. Doryhnchus thom.soni Dorynchus ihnmsoni. Norman (Thomson, 1873) I.ispognalhus ihomsoni. Norman (Milne-Edwards. 1881). Lispognalhus ihompsoni. (A. M. F.dw.) (Anon, 1884) I.ispognalhus Thomsoin (A. M.-Edw.) (Filhol, 1885) Lispognalhus Thomson!. A. M. F.dw. (Pcrricr, 1886) Dorynchus Thomsoni. Norman (Pcrricr, 1886) I.ispognalhus Thomsoni (Pocock. 1889) I.ispognalhus thomsoni. Norman (Bourne, 1890) Lispognalhus thomsoni. Norman (Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 19(X)) Lispognalhus Thonusoni l^orm. (Hansen, 1908) Lispognalhus Thomsoni. Norman (Bouvier. 1922) Archacopsis ihomsoni (Norman) (Rathbun. 192.5) Dorhynchus Thomsoni Norman (Bouvier. 1940) Archaeopsis ihomsoni (Norman) (Barnard, 19,50) Dorhynchus ihomsoni Thomson (Holthuis, 1962) Dorhynchus ihomsoni Thomson (Zariquiey, 1968) Dorhynchus ihomsoni Thomson (Christiansen, 1969) Dorynchus thomsoni Thomson (Ingle, 1980) Dorhynchus ihomsoni Thomson (Manning and Holthuis, 1981) Archaeopsis thomsoni (Thomson) (Grifhn and Tranter, 1986) Rochinia carpenter! Amathia carpenteri . Norman (Thomson, 1873) Scyramaihia carpenwri Norman (Milnc-Fdwards. 1880a) Scyramaihia Carpenteri (A. M.-Edw.) (Filhol. 1885) Scyramaihia Carpenteri, Norman (Pcrricr. 1886) Anamathia Carpenteri (Pocock. 1889) Anamathia Carpenteri, Norman (Bourne. 1S90) Scyramaihia Carpenteri. Norman (Milnc-Fdwards and Bouvier. 19{K)) Scyramaihia Carpenteri (Norman) (Dotlcin. 1904) Scyramaihia carpenteri NoTirtdn (Rathbun. 1925) Rochinia Carpenteri Norman (Bouvier, 1940) Rochinia carpenteri (Norman) (Monod. 1956) NOMENCLATURE OF CRABS 21 Rochinia carpenleri (Thomson) (Sivertscn and Holthuis, 1956) Rochinia carpenleri (Thomson) (Zariquicy, 1%X) Rochinia carpenleri (Thomson) (Inglc. IW(I) Cymonomus granulatus Elhiisa granittala ns. (Thomson, 1873) F.lhiis graniilala. Norman (Norman, 18S(I) Cymonoinus granidalus (Norm) (Milnc-Fdwards, 1883) Cymonomus granutaliis (A. M.Hdw.) (Filhol, 1885) Cymonomus granuUiliis . Norman (Pcrricr, I8f)) Cymonoinus granulaiits . Norman (Milnc-F.dwards and Bouvier, 1900) Cymonomus graniilaliis (Norman) (Doflcin, 1904) Cymonomus granulaiits (Norman (Ihlc, 1916) Cymonomus granulaliis Norman (Bouvier, 1940) Cymonomus granulaiits (Norman ex Thomson) (Monod. 1956) Cymonomus granulaiits (Thomf,or{) (Zariquicy, 1968) Cymonomus granulaliis (Thomson) (Tiirkay. 1976) Cymonomus granulaiits (Thomson) (Inglc. 1980) Cymonomus granulaliis (Thomson) (Manning and Holthuis, 1981) Rbalia nux Ehalia nux. Norman (Norman, 1880) F.balia nux (Norm.) (Milnc-F.dwards. 1883) Ehalia mix. Norman, MS (Pocock, 1889) Ebalia nux. Norman (Bourne, 1890) Ehalia mix. Norman (Milnc-F.dwards and Bouvier, 1900) Ehalia nux Norman (Pesta, 1918) Ehalia mix Milnc-F.dwards, 1881 (in note in Pesta, 1918) Ehalia mix. Norman (A. 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London SW75BD CONTENTS Biography 25 Bibliography 35 Index to names proposed by Oldfield Thomas 85 Acknowledgements Ill Appendix I Unofficial workers 112 Appendix 2 Mammals named after Oldfield Thomas 112 References 113 BIOGRAPHY Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas served the Trustees of the British Museum and subsequently of the British Museum (Natural History) from 1H76 until his retirement in 1923, continuing to work at the Museum almost until his death in 1929. Joining the staff of the Department of Zoology in 1878 as the Assistant in charge of mammals, he devoted the following fifty one years to the development and increase of the mammal collections, to a voluminous correspondence, and especially to a prodigious output of papers and writings that without doubt establishes him as the most prolific of mammalogists in variety and number of publications, and in numbers of newly described taxa. His contribution to the then emergent science of modern mammalogy is so great that few taxonomic or systematic studies of mammals written since his era can fail to include at least one name that he proposed, and modern faunal studies, revisions and monographs almost invariably include several and sometimes many references to his writings. Despite this prodigality, there exists no published bibliography to document his achievements, and, unlike the present age when no doubt his contemporaries and peers might be invited to produce a commemorative volume or Festschrift, the end of his career was marked only by relatively brief obituary notices (Hinton, 1929; Pocock, 1930). While it might be said that the mammalian collection of the British Museum (Natural History) is in itself a memorial to Oldfield Thomas', who did so much to create and shape it, at a distance of some sixty years from his death it seems opportune to review the contribution Always known among his family as Oldfield (his mother's maiden name), he invariably styled himself Oldheld Thomas, ignoring his other given names. His full name or his full initials are only rarely cited, and then chiefly by the pedantic. 26 J. fi. mi I made by this most remarkable of mammalogists, and to document the vast output of papers, reports and other pubhcations that won him world-wide recognition as a leader and innovator in his chosen field. Oldfieid Thomas was born on 21 February, 1858 at Millbrook in Bedfordshire. England. The son of a clergyman, the Reverend J. H. Thomas, who was subsequently appointed to the Archdiaeonate of Cape Town, Thomas spent several of his early years in South Africa, where he displayed a youthful interest in natural history by collecting insects on the slopes of Table Mountain. When his father returned to England to become Vicar of Hillingdon. near Uxbridge in west London. Thomas was sent to Haileybury. then a relatively recently founded public school (in England in fact a more or less exclusively private establishment) at Hertford, but apparently did not prove to be a promising scholar. At the age of eighteen he secured a clerkship in the office of the British Museum at Bloomsbury. of which at that time the natural history collections formed an integral part, but his interest in this field led him to hope for a post as an Assistant in the Department of Zoology, under the formidable Dr. Albert Gunther. then its Keeper. With this in mind. Thomas attended a course of lectures by T. H. Huxley at South Kensington for the next two years. In 1878 his hopes of a zoological career were fulfilled by a transfer to the zoological staff with an Assistantship that he was to hold until his official retirement on 21 February, 1923. At first interested in invertebrate animals and especially in Echinoderms with which rumour had already suggested he would work, he was dismayed when after a short period Gunther assigned him to the study and curation of mammals. In later life Thomas would recount how despite his protestations, the autocratic Keeper insisted that he should 'do the mammals', and he would aver that the vision of the countless sheep and goats that passed through his mind had led him to hate these animals for ever. Perhaps it is significant that subsequently he did ignore their systematics to a large extent, leaving this work to others, except possibly when impelled by his enthusiasm to write a description of one hitherto unknown, and so add another new name to his ever increasing total. One can only speculate to what extent he would have influenced the classification of any other group of animals had Gunther decided otherwise: his career suggests that in the Mammalia Thomas found one to which his talents were admirably suited. Some impressions of Thomas survive in the obituary notices by his contemporaries M. A. C. Hinton(1929) and R. I. Pocock (1930). and in the personal recollections of the late R. W. Hayman. who joined his small staff in the Mammal Room as a very young man in 1921. Pocock. who knew Thomas from his early days in 188.^ provides a vivid pen picture of this dedicated worker. He was. Pocock remarks, like any average young Englishman of the period who had been reared in a well-ordered household, found his level at public school, learnt the bad taste of self-advertisement, and had acquired the qualities of "fair play': in fact, an exemplar of the typical upper middle class virtues of the age. A single-minded man almost wholly devoted to his work, Thomas had a practical and methodical nature, with few intellectual pretensions and little aesthetic appreciation. Although Pocock remarks that he had gained little profit from the educational systetn then in vogue, his impeccable coinings of new names in profusion indicates at least a reasonable understanding of Greek and Latin, and the quality of his writing shows a more than passing grasp of English grammar and composition. He had, acct)rding to Pocock, no appreciation of art or literature, classical or otherwise, yet his choice of names shows a wide acquaintance with the legendary figures of classical mythology, and, in one little known instance, some knowledge of painting in his proposal (0432) of the name Fornarina for a naked mole-rat, after a celebrated nude by Titian. He had some liking for music, but appears to have gained no real pleasure from reading, confining himself to the daily newspaper, an occasional magazine, or to travel books. He was by all M. R. O. THOMAS 27 accounts an eminently sociable person, preferring conversation to books, and with an aversion to solitude that amounted almost to pathological dislike. When working he had a strong preference for the presence of another person: the late G. W. C. Holt fulfilled this need for company in Thomas' later years, carrying out his clerical duties in the same room and being there, when required, to undertake small tasks or errands. In his earlier years Thomas engaged in a variety of games and sports, such as billiards, cricket and lawn tennis: he played lacrosse for a while and was a passable marksman, as a volunteer in the Artist's Corps. Almost to the end of his life he played that most Victorian and sometimes vicious of games, croquet, devoting his summer holidays to tournaments at various seaside resorts. Although he had travelled quite widely in Europe in the early days of his career and indeed engaged in some minor collecting expeditions, he seems to have had little interest in the countryside and its scenery, or even in its flora and fauna. Collecting seems to have interested him as a means to the essential objective of providing specimens. On an occasion in later life when his attention was drawn to the beauty of the night sky he is reputed to have observed that it was a great pity that one could not collect the stars! Quite unconcerned with social importance or professional advancement within the Museum, Thomas also lacked any conceit in his own achievements. Although for many years he maintained a personal record of the Latin names that he had proposed, it was kept more probably to avoid the risk of pre -occupying his own coinings, or of using the same name too frequently, rather than from vanity, but from time to time he did add a cumulative total. Eventually it seems that the task became too wearisome and he ceased to keep this record, relying instead upon his memory. He declined the opportunity of promotion to higher, mainly administrative posts so that he might remain unfettered in his work with tfie collection, and refused to be drawn into controversies such as that surrounding the relics of Piltdown Man, even when his friend and colleague, the American mammalogist G. S. Miller correctly surmised (1915, 1918) that the jaw was that of a chimpanzee and so came under lire from more immediate colleagues in the Museum. Thomas' pragmatic approach to life, tempered by shrewd commonsense and judge- ment, led him to choose his friends and associates wisely, or to select loyal and trusted collectors with whom he would have only sporadic contact once they were in the field. At the same time, by persuasion and perseverance he was able to interest wealthy or influential sponsors in his collecting projects, sometimes with the promise of nomencla- tural immortality when their patronyms would appear as the names of the new species or subspecies that inevitably would be discovered. Others he would convince that their best interests lay in furthering the progress of the National Collection, as he liked to call it, perhaps by working as his largely unpaid assistants at South Kensington. No doubt these unofficial workers' found inspiration in the very considerable determination and prodigious capacity for work shown by the 'Boss', as he was known to his intimates in his middle years. Such qualities had brought him professional recognition in his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1901, an honour he valued greatly, and, although he was not one to seek public office, his election to the Council of the Zoological Society of London in the latter part of the nineteenth century. His marriage in 1891 to Mary Kane, the daughter of Sir Andrew Clarke, marked a watershed in his career. His wife, similarly Victorian, was in many ways everything that Thomas was not: a good amateur pianist, with literary tastes, and a follower of orthodox religion, she was in some respects almost his opposite. There were no children of the marriage, and when after a few years his wife infierited a small fortune. Thomas found the independence that was to enable him to stand aloof from the office-seeking, lecturing and popular writing that many of his generation and others since have found necessary to supplement an official stipend. More than that, his wife herself became interested in 28 J. E. HILL natural history, and, devoted to her husband and his work, readily agreed that as mueh money as could be spared should be diverted into supporting mammal collectors in manv parts of the world, or into financing expeditions with such collecting as their principal objective. Thomas' correspondence survives in the Museum, although only of the incoming letters, there being no copies of his replies. It shows him to have been a voluminous correspondent, in touch with all of his prominent colleagues at home and abroad. It is almost a roll call of the height of Empire, with letters from famous explorers, hunters and colonial officials that ITiomas had enlisted as part-time collectors. Many letters are concerned with others whose collecting he financed from his own pocket, some quite amusing when read today and throwing an unexpected light on the way that Thomas built the collection in his charge. Always careful in laying out his money, he occasionally met his match: letters from Knud Andersen, for example, show that when offered employ- ment he too could drive a hard bargain. Occasionally Thomas would write letters to newspapers and magazines: cuttings of some that evidently he valued or thought might interest posterity he added to his personal volumes of his writings. His pragmatic outlook characterises his suggestions for an easily made ear-plug for soldiers in the firing line (0751). that pedestrians should use the road and footpath in a disciplined fashion to avoid collisions with traffic or with bearers of advertising sandwich-boards (0844), or his proposal after the First World War that the German Fleet should be sunk in such a way and position that the wrecks would provide a breeding ground for fish (0848). Interested in the merits of simplified spelling (0684, 0700. 0813), he also enthused over starvation as a cure for influenza (1005). and advocated the learning of Braille by the sighted as an aid to sleep: in this way it was possible to read in bed in a darkened room, or with arms, hands and book or magazine in the warmth under the bed linen (1017). He had pronounced views on 'legalised suicide' as a form of euthanasia (0507) that eventually he was to carry to their logical conclusion. For many years Thomas seemed unduly concerned with his health, soon after his marriage experiencing heart palpitations and other unexplained symptoms. As time passed he gave up strenuous games and drifted slowly into a condition bordering on semi-invalidism. apparently convinced that he had only a short time to live. He was advised that a mainly vegetarian diet might improve the situation, and with typical determination and tenacity he adopted this new regime. The results were so beneficial, for whatever reason, that he soon became an ardent advocate of this new way of life. Probably very unfairly his friends regarded him as a hypochondriac, perhaps even something of a crank: he was, it seems, a valetudinarian, highly solicitous of his health, and especially concerned with the effects of diet and sometimes other unconventional treatments, such as daily massage. A wider interest in subjects beyond the narrow field of systematic mammalogy might have helped but without these broader horizons he had little beyond his work and in later life would occupy himself at home in knitting, or in listening to the radio when regular broadcasting began. Always a man of precise and ordered methods when studying specimens or writing, he carried routine into his daily activity: after a midday snack he would retire to a private darkened room, there to sleep for an hour in an old armchair before returning to work for the afternoon, a practice not unknown among his successors. During this rest period the wrath of the mighty would descend upon any unwise person who disturbed him, unless perchance they brought news of fresh funds becoming available for collecting expeditions, or of new mammals that he might describe. He continued after his official retirement in 1923 to work as though nothing had happened. His wife, upon whom he had become increasingly depentlent, predeceased him in May, 1928. For some while he carried on unchanged, but as the months went by he clearly missed her more and more, becoming less interested in his work, her death M. R. O. THOMAS 29 having been a severe blow from which he was unable to recover. The deliberate termination of his life by his own hand in June, 1929 came as a great shock to his many friends and admirers, although no surprise to those close to him: the note that he left revealed his inner stresses and made it plain that he could no longer face life alone without his partner. Thomas left the greater part of his fortune and that of his wife as a collecting fund for the Museum, but it is characteristic of this modest and unassuming man that to the last he thought of the comfort and convenience of others. For most of his working life he had ascended (and descended) four long flights of stairs from the Main Hall of the Museum to the Mammal Room, then on the third floor and now part of the Department of Botany. Shortly before his death he paid for the installation of a lift to relieve the staff by overcoming this climb, and which bears a plaque (PI. 3) commemorating his generosity. The Department of Zoology when Thomas joined it in 1878 was housed in the British Museum at Bloomsbury, with the other natural history collections, the Waterhouse building in South Kensington being then incomplete and not ready for occupation. The mammal collections had from 1837 to 1874 been the responsibility of the eminent naturalist John Edward Gray, among many other duties. Gray had established a system of accession and registration, and had assembled a substantial nucleus of the study collection. He produced a number of catalogues of the material under his care, these gradually taking on a monographic nature going beyond simple listing. His successor as Keeper of Zoology, Dr. Albert Gunther had for a short while taken charge of the mammal collection and had intended to prepare a catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata. However, with the appointment of Thomas, it seems that Gunther soon realised that he had made a wise decision, and relinquished the task to this energetic and painstaking newcomer. Once the move of the collection to South Kensington was completed in 1882, Thomas began seriously to continue the work of cataloguing and monographing the collection after the fashion of the time. The Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata appeared in 1888 (0065); that this was to be the precursor of similar catalogues of the entire collection seems evident from the manuscript listings of the Museum holdings of mammals that Thomas prepared about that time and which even today are valuable in tracing the history of early material. Other papers in this period quickly established Thomas as a rising mammalogist, and it soon became evident that in one way or another he would make a significant contribution to this field of science. The final decade of the nineteenth century saw a profound change in mammalogy. Until then the subject had been dominated by a largely typological concept, more often than not based on very small numbers of specimens, most of them indifferently preserved, and often without reliable locational data. However, a number of American mammalogists, led by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and charged with a survey of the mammalian fauna of the United States, realised that the species concept in this sense had limitations when such large faunal areas were studied. In its place, they began to study variation by collecting widespread series of carefully prepared specimens, complete with skulls, and labelled with accurate details of locality, altitude, date and gender. Much interesting information was soon obtained, and in particular the details of local variation became clear, leading to the recognition not only of further species but also of many previously unsuspected local races or subspecies. The publication of such results immediately alerted Thomas to the implications of this new approach to his subject. Very quickly he realised that what was true of North America must apply equally to the rest of the world, and offered almost unlimited opportunities of augmenting the collection in his charge with new and exciting represen- tatives of other mammal faunas. He began to apply these new ideas to the fauna of the Old World and of South America, encouraging collecting by local residents, colonial officials and sportsmen, financing independent collectors from his own now not 30 J. E. HILL inconsiderable means, and by finding wealthy sponsors. His decision to undertake what was effectively almost a survey of the mammals of the world led to a complete change in the nature of his work which became increasingly concerned with the identification of the many specimens that flowed into South Kensington, and with the preparation of short papers that for the most part consisted of the descriptions of the wide variety of new mammals that this private army of collectors discovered. The effect on the collections and on his output of published work was dramatic: the sudden upsurge in accessions in the years 1891-1910 is reflected in the 555 papers that he published during this period (Tables 1,2). In all, Thomas was responsible for some 1090 items of published work, including a small number of letters to newspapers and magazines but otherwise without exception concerned with professional topics and usually with the descriptions of new mammals. He proposed some 2900 new names for genera, species and subspecies and is without doubt the most prolific of all mammalogists. While it can be said that most of his papers are short, by the standards of the time they are terse, effective accounts unburdened by superfluous detail. He might well have written more, but in the context of the numbers of specimens that passed through his hands (Table 1 ) nothing can belittle his achievement in describing and naming the vast undiscovered faunas that his collectors revealed. His practical mind and prodigious memory enabled him to come very quickly to the essentials of mammalian systematics as reflected by the steadily increasing collections, and he worked rapidly, moving unhesitatingly from one topic to another. This became his occupation for the remainder of his career: in carrying it out he so augmented his beloved National Collection to the extent that it remains one of the leading collections in the world in variety and numbers of specimens, and especially in its content of original material, reflecting the vast number of new taxa that he and his helpers described during this period. Despite this new and absorbing interest, Thomas did not entirely desert the catalogu- ing of the collections. In 1904 he persuaded and at least in part financed a young Danish zoologist, Knud Andersen to come to London and prepare a monographic catalogue of the Chiroptera. This decision proved wise and apart from a succession of shorter papers incidental to the work the first volume on the Megachiroptera appeared in 1912. The preparation of a second volume on the Microchiroptera was cut short by the sudden and hitherto unexplained disappearance of Andersen in 1918.' Similarly Thomas encouraged his friend and colleague G. S. Miller to prepare a catalogue of the mammals of western Europe which was published in 1912. No memoir of Thomas can omit his part with R. C. Wroughton and W. S. Millard in setting up the Bombay Natural History Society's Mammal Survey of the Indian sub- continent in the early part of this century. The application of Thomas" by then well-tested methods of engaging and financing collectors soon resulted in the arrival of huge packing cases of specimens at the British Museum (Natural History), all to be unpacked and their contents laid out for study by Thomas and by members of the band of unofficial workers (Appendix 1) that he had gathered together. The magnitude of the collections obtained by the Survey is known only too well to the present writer, who soon after appointment to the staff of the Museum in 1948 was responsible for re-packing most of the material for return to India: the many publications resulting from this accumulation remain a basic source and a tribute to the foresight of Thomas and Wroughlon. Thomas had a formidable grasp of nomenclature and its niceties, realising early in his ' Andersen disappeiircd without warning or any public explanation, giving rise to much speculatitm at the time. even that he might have been a secret agent. The truth is more prosaic: a letter from Andersen found m 1949 among some of Thomas' effects explained that Andersen's domestic circumstances had become so mtolerable that he had resolved to end a situation that he could no longer endure. Nothmg further was ever heard of him. M. R. O. THOMAS 31 career that basic stability could be obtained only by attaching the many names that abounded in the nineteenth century literature to the original specimens that by then had found their way into the collections at South Kensington. With this in mind he designated lectotypes from many of the collections on which earlier naturalists had based their observations and descriptions. Possibly his most spectacular achievement in so doing was to recognise among the many specimens from the Lidth de Jeude collection that the Museum had purchased in 1867 were some that had been formerly the property of Albert Seba. Figured in his 'Thesaurus' of 1734, many were in fact the types of names proposed subsequently by Linnaeus and based on Sebas illustrations (OK)"). Ever practical, he produced one of the first attempts to standardize basic skull measurements and tooth nomenclature (0486) and devised a simple instrument for measuring the incisive index in rodents (0862). Realising that his collectors would benefit from clear instructions, he wrote a leaflet giving directions for the preparation of small mammal skins (0147) but was forced to issue it at his own expense since Dr. Gunther, the Keeper of Zoology, did not think that it would be of any use to the Museum. In one modification or another it has continued in print to the present day. No less than two genera and thirty eight species and subspecies were named after Thomas (Appendix 2), an indication of the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues. Such dedications are sometimes accompanied by tributes that acknowledge the generous help that he provided to others. It is equally apparent from the numerous unofficial workers and volunteers that Thomas encouraged to work in the Mammal Room that he was able to inspire others with his vision of a great National Collection, served by a willing band of helpers. His own names (Index) explore almost every basis for a scientific epithet. Many commemorate his sponsors, collectors, friends and relatives, or are geographical in origin. Others are classical, Thomas having dredged deeply among the mythology of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Yet more are derived directly from Greek and Latin, impeccably constructed and usually descriptive. Not lacking humour, he proposed la io (a bat, 0377) reputedly in response to a challenge from G. S. Miller to coin the shortest name in mammalogy. Occasionally his enthusiasm ran away with him and he proposed one new name (Talpa milleri, a mole, 0665) that remained still-born: it reached the page proofs of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London, but was then withdrawn. Another such name (Cervus spatulatiis. a deer) escaped: based on a set of much deformed antlers from Borneo, it similarly reached the page proofs of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (0330), at which point Thomas decided to abort it. Unfortunately, he had overlooked its publication in the Minutes of the Proceedings (0329) of the meeting at which he had exhibited the specimen, and the name remains available in the literature, although undiscovered. Obviously, much of Thomas' classification has been superseded in the sixty years since his death. Indeed, many of the names that he proposed have been reduced in rank or have passed into synonymy, some the victims of his own methods as the increasing numbers of specimens in collections have led to a wider understanding of population structure and variation. It is true, too, that late in life his use of the terms species and subspecies became erratic. His vast output of new names has led some to regard him as a mere museum systematist with little understanding of natural history, or even as one to whom the description of new taxa had become an overwhelming obsession, however flimsily these proposals might be based. None of this, however, can detract from an achievement that can only be described as monumental. The Mammal Section of the British Museum (Natural History) contains many reminders of Oldfield Thomas, from his portraits (Pis. I, 2) to his crabbed handwriting (PI. 4) scattered throughout catalogues, the Accession Registers, on the 32 J. E. HILL labels of innumerable specimens, and as annotations in the margins and text of his own publications. No worker in this collection can fail to see and wonder at the results of the undertaking to which Thomas set his hand and which he carried forward with such single- minded determination. He created a foundation for his successors to build upon, a tradition that they have followed, and was truly a pioneer and founding father of modern systematic mammalogy. Table 1 Accessions of specimens of mammals to the British Museum (Natural History), 1837 - 1988, excluding Cetacea, domestic animals, and skeletal material. 1837-1840 647 1911-1920 25137 1841-1850 6802 1921-1930 21699 1851 - 1860 4614 1931 - 1940 19826 1861-1870 3135 1941-1950 8098 1871 - 1880 3642 1951 - 1960 12065 1881 - 1890 4341 1961 - 1970 26673 1891 - 1900 13277 1971 - 1980 27731 1901 - 1910 3345S 19S1 - 1988 16987 Following the custom of his time. Thomas made many imperfect or apparently superfluous specimens mto "duplicates'. Some were donated to other institutions, but the greater part of this so-calied duplicate collection was retained, and eventually accessed and incorporated into the study collections, chiefly [n 1965 and 1966, by which time it also included a number of specimens added since Thomas" day- Table 2 Totals of publications by Oldfield Thomas; two items (0330, 0665) that he carried to proof stage and subsequently withdrew have been omitted. There is a close relation with the volume of accessions to the collections (Table 1 ) during his working life. 1879-1880 7 1881 - 1890 81 1891 - 1900 220 1901 - 1910 335 1911-1920 247 1921 - 1929 :(K1 M. R. O. THOMAS 33 Plate 1 A portrait of Oldfield Thomas, F. R. S., by J. E. Braun, dated 1904. bequeathed by Thomas to the British Museum (Natural History). 34 J. E. HILL Plate 2 A portrait of Oldlield I'homas. F. R. S.. artist and date unknown, bequeathed by Thomas to the British Museum (Natural History). M. R. O.THOMAS 35 OJ": z/he c/nsialLalibn or zkis lifz was re tzcle red possible in /^2,C) ou a generous S^ifi from Kjlafiela cJnomas. a. cf\^c7., who was in She serOice of 2vie cJrusS'ees from )'i>76 Sof^l^- *3 .^^-L. Plate 3 Commemorative plaque in the lift in the Main Hall of the British Musem (Natural History). V— ^"^ ) ' \_ •war /. Ad. St., (J & 7 yg. Lidtb de Jeude CoU, Lidtb de Jeude CoU. (Deiwribed by Wftterboiue.} fl. Didelphys lepida. (I'L^ri! III. fig. 1.) DldeJphjTi (Miueureui) lepids, T^m. ^nu. .«n^. JK If. (6) i. p. 158 Si7.o very small. Fur soft, cloao and straight. GetietuI colour deep rich rufoue, much deeper then in the ntUod species. Rhinarium apparently aa in iJ. muriita. Centre o( face pole rufous ; crown deep nifoua, like buck ; black patchca round eyes strongly marked, con- tinued forwards on the sides of the muuKlo nearly to the rhinariura, Imt not continued back wards towards the car. Chin, chest, and belly dirty n'hito, with a (nint rufoua tinge, the lino of demarcation not nt all stronRlv marked. Kant vcrv small, laid forward thee reach Plate 4 Oldfield Thomas" handwriting: a sample taken from an interleaved copy of his Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata (0065, 1888) which he amended as further specimens were added to the collection. BIBLIOGRAPHY The order of listing of references within the year in this bibliography does not imply any priority of publication and no publication dates beyond the year have been established except where these are relevant to instances of multiple description. Titles in square brackets have been compiled to indicate the content of articles lacking any formal heading. Thomas published the greater part of his work in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London, and in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, the latter consisting in part of the amplified formal versions of papers initially delivered verbally at the regular Scientific Meetings of the Society. As a rule, both journals present little difficulty for the bibliographer. The volumes of the Annals have been presumed here to have appeared in the year to which they refer: the dates of issue of the parts of the Proceedings can be obtained from Martin Duncan (1937). However, a brief account of announcements, specimens exhibited, and papers presented was issued shortly after each of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society, from 1867 to 1904 as the 'Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London' and from 1904 to 1936 in a more formal style and titled 'Abstracts' rather than 'Minutes'. These antedate the corresponding parts of the Proceedings, sometimes by many months, or even appearing in the previous year, and often contain newly 36 J. K. HILL proposed names. Some of these are nomina nuda and of no nomenclatural consequence but many seem quite validly proposed: although certainly in the "Minutes' each account is a summary of the describer's remarks by another hand, it is clearly ascribed to the originator. Where any of Thomas' names have first appeared in this way, with a description, the relevant reference has been treated as a formal paper and included as such in his bibliography. Where the entry in the 'Minutes' or 'Abstracts' relates only to a report of specimens exhibited but not formally named, or mentioned with a iwmen nudum, the reference has been listed separately in a terminal supplement, its serial number prefixed 'A'. Evidently Thomas was instrumental in changing the rather informal 'Minutes' into a more obviously accredited publication. A printed version of a letter (0309) that he wrote in 1901 to P. L. Sclater, then the Secretary of the Zoological Society survives in his collected works and was apparently circulated as a broadsheet. In this Thomas suggested that henceforward the publication should be called the Abstracts of the Proceedings; it should be continuously paginated; sufficient should be printed to satisfy foreign libraries and museums; it should be issued to all Fellows of the Society; new species should date from the Abstracts, for which authors should prepare their own accounts; and that these submissions must be an abstract of a paper already with the Society. Most if not all of these proposals seem to have been adopted, and the Minutes' terminated on 13 December. 1904: meanwhile the "Abstracts' began on 13 January of the same year, being issued on the Tuesday following the Meeting to which each referred, and also being placed on sale at the Society's Offices. 1879 0(X)1 On Robert Kerr's translation of the "Systcma Naturae' of Linnaeus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (5) 4: 397. 1880 (KX)2 Description of a new species of Mas from the Fiji Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11-13, 1 fig. 0003 On the M\oxus elegans of Temminck. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40- 4L 0004 On mammals from Ecuador. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 393-403, figs 1-3, pi. 38. 0005 Description of a new bat from Java, of the genus Kerivoula. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (5) 5: 472—473, 1 fig. t)006 On bats from Old Calabar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (.5) 6: 164-167, 2 figs. 0007 Description of a new species of Arvicola from northern India. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (.5) 6: 332-333. 1881 (KX)8 Description of a new species of Reiihrodon. with remarks on the other species of the genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1880): 691-696, figs. 1^. (XK)9 Account of the zoological collections made during the survey of fL M.S. 'Alert' in the Straits of Magellan and on the coast of Patagonia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3-6, figs. 1-2. (K)10 Description of a new species of Mus from southern India. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (.5) 7: 24. (K)l 1 On the Indian species of the genus Mus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London .S21-5.'>7, pis. .SO-.SL 0012 Description of a new species of mole from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (.5) 7: 469^71 . (K)13 Description of a new species of Alactaga from Mesopotamia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (.5) 8: 1.5-16. M. R. O. THOMAS 37 1882 01)14 On the African mungooses. Proceedings of the Zoological Socien of London 59-93, fig. 1, pi. 3. Olll.'i On a collection of rodents from nortti Peru. Proceedings of the Zoological Socielv oj Lw!(/f«i 9K-lll.pl. 4. 0016 On a small collection of rodents from South-Western Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 265-267. pi. 14. 0017 Description of a new genus and two new species of Insectivora from Madagascar. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 16: 319-322. 1 fig. coin On a small collection of Mammalia from central Mexico. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 371-372. 0019 On two new Muridac from Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hisiorv: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 9: 413-416. tigs. 1^. 0020 Description of a new species of rat from China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 587-588. pi. 44. 1883 (X)21 Description of two new species of Pteropus from the Caroline Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1882): l^^l^l , pis. 54-55. 0022 On Mustela alhinucha. Gray. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Holany and Geology, London (5) 11: 370-371. 1 fig. 1884 0023 On a collection of Muridae from central Peru. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 447-458, pis. 42-44. 0024 Description of a new species of Microgate. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 14: 337-338. 0025 Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. Alert 1881-2. Pari I. The collections from Melanesia. Mammalia. Pp. 5-10. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). 1885 (K)26 Report on the mammals obtained and observed by Mr. H. H. Johnston on Mount Kilima- njaro. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 219-222, pi. 12. 0027 Notes on the characters of the different races of Echidna. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 329-339, pis. 23-24. 0028 Account of a collection of human skulls from Torres Straits. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 14: 328-343, pis. 14-15. tabs. 1-3. 0029 [Remarks on a burrowing rodent, Heterocephalus phillipsi, n. sp.|. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 61 1-612. 1886 0030 Notes on the rodent genus Heterocephalus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1885): 845-849, pi. 54, [figs. 1-5|. 0031 Diagnoses of three new Oriental mammals. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 17: 84. 0032 On the mammais presented by Allan O. Hume, Esq., C.B., to the Natural History Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 54-79, pis. 5-6. 0033 Description of a new Brazilian species of Hesperomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 17: 250-251. 0034 Notes on a striking instance of cranial variation due to age. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 125-127, 1 pi. 0035 Diagnosis of a new species of Phascologale. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 24) 4: 208. 0036 Note intorno ad alcuni Chirotteri appartencnti al Museo Civico di Genova c descrizionc di due nuove specie del genere Phvllorhma. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (OS. 24) 4; 201-207, 1 fig. [With G. Doria). 38 J. E. HILL 1887 {KI37 On the wallaby commonly known as Lagorchestes fasciativi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1S86): 544^547. pi. 59. 0038 Note on Hesperomys pyrrhorhimts. Pr. Max. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 18: 421-423. (K)3y Diagnosis of a new species of Hesperomys from North America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (5) 19; 66. 1)040 Description of a new Papuan phalanger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (5) 19: 146-147. 0041 Diagnoses of two new fruit-eating bats from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 19: 147. IK)42 List of mammals from the Cameroons Mountain, collected by Mr. H. H. Johnstim. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 121. 0043 On the small Mammalia collected in Demerara by Mr. W. L. Sclater. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 150-153. pi. 19. 0044 On the bats collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 320-328. figs. 1-3, pis. 25-26. 0045 On the milk-dentition of the koala. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 338- 339. 1 hg. 0046 On the homologies and succession of the teeth in the Dasyuridae, with an attempt to trace the history of the evolution of mammalian teeth in general. Proceedings of the Royal Society o//.OA!(/o« 42: 310-312. [Abstract). 0047 On the homologies and succession of the teeth in the Dasyuridae, with an attempt to trace the history of the evolution of mammalian teeth in general. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal'Society of London (B) 178: 443-462, tigs. 1-5, pis. 27-28. 0048 On the specimens of Phascogale in the Museo Civico, Genoa, with notes on the allied species of the genus. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Nalurale di Genova (2a), (OS. 24) 4: 502-511. 0049 Description of a second species of rabbit-bandicoot (Peragale). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (5) 19: 397-399. (X)50 Report on a zoological collection made by the officers of H.M.S. "Flying Fish' at Christmas Island. Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 51 1-514. pis. 41-42. 0051 Description of two new squirrels from North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (5) 20: 127-129. (X)52 Description of a new rat from North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 20: 269-270. 0053 Diagnoses of two new central African Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (5) 20: 440. 1888 (X)54 On a collection of mammals obtained by Emin Pasha in equatorial Africa, and presented by him to the Natural History Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London .^17, pis. 1-2. 0055 List of mammals obtained by Mr. G. F. Gaumer on Cozumel and Ruatan Islands, Gulf of Honduras. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 129. (X)56 Diagnoses of six new mammals from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 1: 15-5-158. 0057 Diagnoses of four new species of Didelphys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. Londim (6) 1: 158-159. tX)58 On a new and interesting annectant genus of Muridae. with remarks on the relations of the Old and New World members of the family. Proceedings of the Zoological .Society of /.o/irfoAi 1.30-1.35, pi. 5. 0059 Description of a new genus and species of rat from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 237-240, 2 figs. (X)60 On F.upetaurus . a new form of flying squirrel from Kashmir Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta 57: 256-260. M. R. O. THOMAS 39 0061 Description of a new bat of the genus Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; inducting Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 2: 226. 0062 On a new species of Loncheres from British Guiana. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 2: 326 0063 Diagnoses of four new mammals from the Malayan region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 2: 407^09. 0064 On the small mammals of Duval County, south Texas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44i~i50. 0065 Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the collection of the British Museum ^Natural History). London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). 1889 0066 The mammals of the Solomon Islands, based on the collections made by Mr. C. M. Woodford during his second expedition to the Archipelago. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1H8K): 470-4X4. pis. 20-22. 0067 On the mammals of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( I S«8): 532-534. 0068 Exhibition of a new species of muntjac, from Tenasserim, proposed to be called Cervulus feae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ?,5 . [1 August 1889]. 0069 Diagnosi di una nuova specie del genero Cervulus raccolta da L. Fea nel Tenasserim. Annali del Miiseo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2a, (O.S. 27) 7: 92. (With G. Doria]. [No exact date). (HI70 Description of a new Bornean monkey belonging to the genus Semnopithecus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 159-160. pi. 16. 0071 Description of a new bat from the Gambia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 3: 362-364, 1 fig. 0072 Preliminary notes on the character and synonymy of the different species of otter. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 190-200. ti073 On the mammals of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 228-236. pi. 24. 0074 Description of a new species of Mus. from South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 3: 433-435. 1 fig. 0075 Description of a new genus of Muridae allied to Hydromys. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 247-250, pi. 29. 0076 On the dentition of Ornithorhynchus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 46: 126- 131, pi. 2. 0077 Description of a new stenodermatous bat from Trinidad. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 4: 167-170, 3 figs. 0078 The zoology of the Afghan Delimitation Commission. Mammals. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2) Series Zoology S: 55-65. 0079 Note on the nomenclature of the short-eared New-Zealand bat. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 4: 462. 1890 0080 O.i a new mungoose allied to Herpestes albicaudatus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London {\Hm): 622-624, pi. 62. 0081 "A milk dentition in Orycteropiis". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 47: 246-248, pi. 8. 0082 On a collection of mammals from central Veracruz, Mexico. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71-76, pis. 6-7. 0083 Description of a new Scotophilus from the Gambia, with remarks on some of the allied species. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 29) 9: 84-88. (K)84 Diagnosis of a new Cynopterus from Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 5: 235-236. 0085 On a collection of mammals obtained by Dr. Emin Pasha in central and eastern Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 443-450, 1 fig., pi. 40. 40 J. E. HILL (K)86 Description of a new squirrel from Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 6: 71-72. (HIS7 Remarks on Dr. Schlosser's "Ucber die Deutung dcs Milchgebisses dcr Saugeticre". Biologisches Zentralhlall. Erlangen & Leipzig 10: 216-219. (K)88 Muridae. In Milne-Edwards, A., Mission scientifique du Cap Horn 1882-1883. 6. Zoologie. Mammiferes 1-32, pis. 1-8 (pp. 22-30, pis. 2-6. 8]. 1891 0089 Preliminary diagnoses of four new mammals from East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 7: 303-304. (K)90 Note on Chiroderma villosum Peters, with the description of a new species of the genus. Annali del Museo Civico di Sioria Naturale di Genova (2a). (O.S. 30) 10: 881-883. (K)91 Diagnoses of three new mammals collected by Signor L. Fea in the Carin Hills. Burma. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 30) 10: 884. (K)92 On a collection of small mammals made by Mr. F. J. Jackson in eastern Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 181-187, 1 tig., pi. 15. (K)93 On some antelopes collected in Somali-land by Mr. T. W. IL Clarke. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 206-212. pis. 21-22. (K)94 Descriptions of three new bats in the British Museum collection. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 7: 527-530. I fig. 0095 Notes on some ungulate mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 384-389. (X)96 Description of a new vole from China. .Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 8: 117-118. 1 fig. 1K)97 Diagnosis of a new species of Procavia. Annali del Museo Civico di Sioria Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 30) 10: 908. 1892 (K)98 Descriptions of three new gerbilles in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 9: 76-79. 0099 On the species of the Hyracoidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50-76, pi. 3. (IKK) Note on the gibbon of the island of Hainan (Hylobates hainanus sp. n.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 9: 145-146. (1101 Diagnosis of a new subspecies of hare from the Corea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 9: 146-147. 0102 Description of a new species of Meriones from Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. l,ondon (6) 9: 147-149. 0103 On some new Mammalia from the East Indian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 9: 250-254. 0104 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a mounted head of an apparently new East-African antelope (Oryx callotis). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 195-196, pi. 14. 0105 On some mammals from Mount Dulit, North Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society o/Lon(/o« 221-227, pis. 18. 19 (figs. 1-6]. 0106 Notes on Dr. Kukenthal's discoveries in mammalian dentition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 9: 308-313. 0107 On two new Central-African antelopes obtained by Mr. F. J. Jackson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 9: 385-388. 0108 Description of a third species of the genus Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 9: 405—106. 0109 On the probable identity of certain specimens, formerly in the l.idth de Jeude Collection, and now in the British Musem, with those figured by Albert Seba in his Thesaurus' of 1734. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 309-318. 01 10 On the antelopes of the genus Cephalophus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of /,o/k/o« 413-430. M. R. O. THOMAS 41 0111 On the insectivorous genus Echinops. Martin, with notes on the dentition of the allied genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5(K)-505. 112 Description of a new species of Acomys. Annals and Magazines of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, l.ondon (6) 10: 22. 1113 Descriptions of three new African Muridae. Annals and /Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 10: 179-183. )114 Diagnosis of a new Mexican Geomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 10: 196. 1115 Descriptions of two new Borncan squirrels. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (fi) 10: 214-216. 1116 Note on the Steatomys of Angola. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 10: 264-265. 1117 Description of a new bat of the genus Artiheus from Trinidad. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 10: 4(18-410. 11 18 Note on Mexican examples of Chilonycteris davyi Gray. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 10: 411). 11 19 Description of a remarkable new Sernnopithecus from Sarawak. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 10: 474-477. 1120 Description of a new Mexican bat. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 10: 477^-478. 1121 On the Mammalia collected by Signor Leonardo Fea in Burma and Tenasserim. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 30) 10: 913-949, pis. 10, 1 1 (figs. 1-7]. 1893 )122 On mammals from Nvassaland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1892): 546-554. 1123 Description of a new monkey of the genus Sernnopithecus from northern Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1892): 582-583, pi. 41. )124 Description of a new baboon from East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 11: 46-47. 1125 On a new Cephalophus from Mount Kilima-njaro. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 11: 48-49. 1126 On the Mexican representative of Sciurus aberti. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 11: 49-50. 1127 Description of a new species of Sminthus from Kashmir. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 11: 184-186. 1 1 28 Further notes on the genus Chiroderma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London, (6) 11: 186-187. 0129 Description of a new porcupine from East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 11: 229-231. 0130 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of Nannotragus livingslonianus from northern Zululand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 237-239, 1 fig. 0131 Suggestions for the definite use of the word "Type" and its compounds, as denoting specimens of a greater or less degree of authenticity. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 24i-242. 0132 A fish-eating rodent. Natural Science. London 2 (14): 286. |April 1893: British Museum (Natural Flistory) copy stamped 29 March]. 0133 Description of two new "pocket-mice" of the genus Heteromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 11: 329-332. 0134 On some mammals from central Peru. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 333-341, pis. 28, 29 [figs. 1-10]. [August 1893). 0135 A preliminary list of the mammals of Trinidad. Journal of the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club, Port of Spain 1: 158-168. 0136 On a second collection of mammals sent by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C\B., from Nyasaland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5(X)-504. 0137 On some new Bornean Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 11: 341-347. 42 J. E. HILL 0138 Notes on some Mexican Oryzomys. Annuls und Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (b) II: 402^05. 0139 Description of a new species of Perognathus from Colorado. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (h) II: 405—406. 0140 Description of a new Sciuropterus from the Philippines. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 12: 3(>-31. 0141 Description of a new Bornean Tupaui. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 12: .'i3-.'>4. 0142 Description of a second species of the carnivorous genus Nandinia. from southern Nyasaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 12: 205. 0143 Descriptions of two new North-Bornean mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 12: 230-232, pi. 7. 0144 On two new members of the genus Heteromys and two of Neoloma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (h) 12: 23.^235. 0145 Descriptions of two new rodents from the Victoria Nyanza. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 12: 267-264. 0146 On some of the larger species of Geomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London '6) 12: 269-273. 1894 0147 Directions for preparing small mammal skins. [With a manuscript note by Oldtield Thomas "The first edition of the directions printed privately as Dr. Gunther [then the Keeper of Zoology] did not think that any such issue would be of use to the Museum"]. 0148 Descriptions of two new species of Macroscelides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: 67-70. 0149 On a new species of armadillo from Bolivia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 13: 70-72. 0150 Description of a new species of reed-rat (Aulacodus) from East Africa, with remarks on the milk-dentition of the genus. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 13: 202-204. 0151 Note on Mus burtoni Thomas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 13: 204-205. 0152 Description of a new bat of the genus Stenoderma from Montserrat. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 132-133. 0153 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, a skin of a giraffe from Somaliland Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 135-136. 0154 On the mammals of Nyasaland: third contribution. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 136-146. 0155 Diagnosis of a new Pieropus from the Admiralty Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: 293. 0156 On two new Chinese rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: 363-365. 0157 Preliminary description of a new goat of the genus Hemilragus, from south-eastern Arabia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: .365-366. 0158 On the Palawan representative of Tupaia ferruginea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: 367. 0159 On the dwarf antelopes of the genus Madoi/ua. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Lom/wi .32.3-329. tigs. 1-3. 0160 On some mammals from Engano Island, west of Sumatra, .'\nnali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a). (O.S. 34) 14: 105 1 10. 0161 On two new Neotropical mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: 436-439. 0162 Preliminary diagnosis of a new ga/clle from Algeria Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 13: 452. M. R. O. THOMAS 43 1)163 On some specimens of mammals from Oman, S.E. Arabia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44K— IS5, pi. 31. (1164 On a new African genus of Mustelidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 13: 522-.'i24. Olfi.S On some gazelles brought by Sir Edmund Loder from Algeria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 467—472. pi. 32. 0166 On Micoiireits griseits Desm., with the description of a new genus and species of Didelphyidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural Historv: including Zoologv. Botan\ and GcoH'V, London (6) 14: 1«4-1«8. 0167 First glimpses of the zoology of the Natuna Islands. III. List of the Hrst collection of mammals from the Natuna Islands. Novitales Zoologicae 1: 652-66(1. [With E. Hartert]. 0I6H Description of a new species of Vespertilio from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 14: 300-301 . (1164 Descriptions of some new Neotropical Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural Historv: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 14: 345-366. 0170 A preliminary revision of the Bornean species of the genus Mas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 14: 449—460. 0171 Description of two new bats of the genus Kerivoula. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 14: 460-462. 0172 The book of antelopes. London: R }i. Porter. [With P. L. Sclater: 4 vols., published 1894-1901]. 1895 0173 On the brush-tailed porcupine of central Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 15: XH-89. 0174 On some mammals collected by Dr. E. Modigliani in Sipora. Mcntawei Islands. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a). (O.S. 34) 14: 660-672. 0175 On the proper specific names of the common shrews of England and the Continent. Zoologist. London (3) 19: 62-64. 0176 Diagnoses of two new East-African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 15: 187-188. 0177 An analysis of the mammalian generic names given in Dr. C. W. L. Gloger's Naturgeschichte ( 1841 ). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 15: 189-193. 0I7S On the long-lost Putorious africaiius Desm., and its occurrence in Malta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 28- 131. 0179 Revised determinations of three of the Natuna rodents. Novitates Zoologicae 2: 26-28. 0180 Yellow-tailed squirrels. Zoologist. London (3) 19: 103-104. 0181 Esplorazionc del Giuba e dei suoi Affluenti compiuta dal Cap. V. Bottego durante gli anni 1892-93 gotto gli auspicii della Societa Geographica Italiana, - Risultati Zoologici. 1. Mammiferi. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a). (O.S. 35) IS: .3-6. 0182 The Irish stoat distinct from the British. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 15: 374. [With G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton]. [April: "A fuller account . . . will appear in the 'Zoologist' for April"']. 0183 The Irish stoat distinct from the British Species. Zoologist. London (3) 19: 124-129 [With G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton]. [April]. 0184 Description of a new species of Helictis from Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 15: 331-332. 0185 On the proper specific name of the weasel. Zoologist, London (3) 19: 177-178. 0186 The proper specific name of the weasel. Zoologist, London (3) 19: 225-226. 0187 The Irish stoat in the Isle of Man. Zoologi.st. London (3) 19: 226-227. 0188 On the representatives of Putorius ermineus in Algeria and Ferghana. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 15: 451—454. 0189 ]The Pacific rat ^Mus exulans) from Sunday Island, Kermadec Group.] In Sclater, PL., Remarks on the Pacific rat (Mas exulans). Proceeding's of the Zoological Society of London 3.38. 0190 On a special mountain race of the plantam squirrel from Mount Dulit, E. Sarawak. Annals 44 J- E. HILL and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Hotanv and Geology. I.ornlon (fi) IS: 529-531. 0191 On a new banded mungoose from Somaliland. Annal.s and Magazine of Natural Hi.'itory: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) IS: 531-532. 0192 On some mammals collected by Mr. Albert Meek on Fergusson Island, d'Entrecasteaux Group. Novitates Zoologicae 2: 163-166. 0193 On the mammals of Aden. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 542-555. [With J. W. Yerbur>l. 0194 The Assoguc (Putorius hihernicus): a peculiar British mammal Natural .Science. London 6 (40): 377-378, pi. 4. 0195 Descriptions of five new African shrews. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, l^ondon (6) 16: 51-55. 0196 On small mammals from Nicaragua and Bogota. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 16: 55-60. 0197 Preliminar\- diagnosis of new mammals from northern Luzon, collected by Mr. John Whitehead. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 16: 160-164. 0198 On a new species of Eliurus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 16: 164-165, 0199 Description of a new Chinese squirrel. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 16: 242. 0200 On African mole-rats of the genera Georhychus and Myoscalops. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 16: 238-241. 0201 Descriptions of four small mammals from South America, including one belonging to the peculiar marsupial genus "Hyracodon." Tomes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 16: 367-370. 0202 On a second collection of mammals from the Natuna Islands. Novitates Zoologicae. 1: 489- 492. [With E. Hartert]. 0203 Land mammals. In The Scientific Results of the 'Challenger' Expedition. Natural Science, London 7 (41): 73-74. 1896 0204 On Caenolesles, a still existing survivor of the Epanorthidae of Ameghino, and the representative of a new family of recent marsupials. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London {]m5). 870-878, pi. 50 (figs. 1-9). 0205 On a wild living mouse of the Mus rnusculus group in Portugal. Zoologist. London (3) 20: 137-139. 0206 On mammals from Celebes. Borneo and the Philippines recently received at the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (6) 18: 241-250. 0207 Description of a new Acomys from Somaliland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 18: 269 270. 0208 On new small mammals from the Neotropical region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 18: .^01 314 0209 The seasonal changes in the common squirrel. Zoologist. London (3) 20: 401—407. 0210 On Capt. Bottego's second collection of mammals from central and southern Somaliland. Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a). (OS. 37) 17: 105-107. 0211 On mammals collected by Mr. Albert Meek on Woodlark Island, and on Kiriwina in the Trobriand Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 526-529. 1897 0212 On the mammals of Nyasaland: fourth notice. Proceedings of the Zoological .Society of London (1896): 788-798. pis. 38-39. 0213 On the genera of rodents: an attempt to bring up to date the current arrangement of the order. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( 1896): 1012-1028. 0214 On the Tsu-shima representative of the Japanese sable. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 19: 161 162. M. R.O.THOMAS 45 0215 On a new gazelle from central Arabia. Annals and Magazine of Naliiral History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 19: 162-163. 0216 On a new dormouse from Mashonaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 19: ,■^88-389. 0217 On a new .species of Lagidium from the eastern coast of Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 19: 466—167. 0218 Notes on some South American Muridae. I. On three new species from the Lower Amazon [pp. 494—497]. II. The species of the genus Nectomys [pp. 497--'iOO]. III. A peculiar genus for "Oryzomys" instans [pp. 5(H)-501[. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 19: 494- .SOI. 0219 [Exhibition of a selection of mammals recently collected by Mr. A. Whyte during his expedition to the Nyika Plateau and the Masuku mountains, north Nyasa.) Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 4 May: 1 . [7 May[. 0220 [Account of the mammals obtained by Mr. John Whitehead during the last three years in the Philippine Islands.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London \5 June: 1. 0221 Exhibitionof specimens and descriptions of new species of mammals from north Nyasaland, with a note on the genus Petrodromus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 430-436. [October]. 0222 On the number of grinding teeth possessed by the manatee. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 595-600, pi. 36 (figs. 1-5|. [With R. Lydekker|. 0223 Notice of a memoir on the mammals obtained by Mr. John Whitehead in the Philippines. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 722. 0224 On some new phalangers of the genus Pseudochirus. Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a). (O.S. 38) 18: 142-146. 0225 Description of a new rat from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 20: 1 13-1 14. 0226 On some small mammals from Salta, northern Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 20: 214-218. 0227 Descriptions of four new South-American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 20: 218-221. 0228 On two new rodents from Van, Kurdistan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (6) 20: 308-310. 0229 Types in natural history and nomenclature of rodents. Science, New York, (N.S.), 6: 485-*87. 0230 On some bats obtained in the Surat and Thana Districts by Mr. R. C. Wroughton. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society II: 274-276. 0231 On the dwarf mungoosc (Helogale) of Somaliland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 20: ytl-yi'). 0232 Diagnosis of a new subspecies of gazelle from British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (6) 20: 475. 0233 Descriptions of new bats and rodents from America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (6) 20: 544-553. 0234 Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Oricntale. XIX. On the mammals collected in British New Guinea by Dr. Lamberto Loria. Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. .38) 18: 606-622, pi. 2. 0235 [Exhibition of a skin of a new skunk of the genus Spilogale from Sinaloa, Mexico, proposed to be termed Spilogale pygmaea.j Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Lon(i(«i 30 November: 1. 0236 [Exhibition of a badger from Lower California, proposed to be termed Taxidea taxus infusca.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 30 November: I. 1898 0237 Note on their recently published paper on the dentition of the manatee. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1897): 814. [With R. Lydekker]. 0238 In Waite, E. R.. On the habits of the Sydney bush-rat (Mus arboricola). With a note by Oldfield Thomas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1897): 857-860. 46 J. L. llll.L 0239 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, specimens of an antelope of the genus CervUapra obtained by Mr. F. V. Kirby in the Transvaal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( 1,S97): 894-898. [Thomas read this contribution by Kirby, and remartced upon the status of Kirl> 's newly proposed name Cervicapra fidvoriifiilti siibulpinu]. 0240 Exhibition and description of a specimen of a new skunk. Spilogutc pvgmaeu. from Mexico. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1897): 898-899. 0241 Exhibition and description of a specimen of a new badger, Taxidea iaxii.s infiisca. from Lower California. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( 1897): 899. 0242 On the mammals obtained by Mr. A. Whyte in Nyasaland, and presented to the British Museum by Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B.; being a hfth contribution to the mammal-fauna of Nyasaland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( 1897): 92.'S-939, pi. 54. 024.3 On new mammals from western Mexico and Lower California. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 40-46. 0244 On indigenous Muridae in the West Indies: with the description of a new Mexican Orvzornys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoologv. Botany and Gt'o/f)gv, London (7) 1: 176-180. 0245 [Exhibition of the skull of a giraffe from the Niger region. | Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 February: 1. 0246 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, the skull of a supposed new subspecies of giraffe from West Africa, proposed to be named Giraffa camelopardalis peralta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 39-41 . 0247 On the mammals collected during Captain Bottegos last expedition to Lake Rudolf and the Upper Sobat. Annali di Museo Civico di Storm Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. .38) 18: 676-679. 0248 Description of a new bat from North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 243. 0249 Description of a new Echimys from the neighbourhood of Bogota. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 243-245. 0250 Descriptions of three new mammals from East Indian Archipelago and Australia. Novitates Zoologicae. London 5: 1—4. 0251 The technical names of British mammals. Zoologist. London (4) 2: 97-103. 0252 On some mammals obtained by the late Mr. Henry Durnford in Chubut. E Patagonia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 210-212. 0253 On some new mammals from the neighbourhood of Mount Sahama. Bolivia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; includini; Zooloe.y. Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 277-283. 0254 Descriptions of two new Argentine rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 283-286. 0255 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, a series of a Siamese squirrel showing variability in coloration. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 245-246. 0256 [Description of a new dik-dik allied to Madoqiia kirkii.l Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5 April: 1 . 0257 Description of a new dik-dik antelope [Madoqua) discovered In N.E. Africa by Mr H S. H. Cavendish. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 278-279. 0258 Viaggio del Dott. A. Borclli ncl Chaco Boliviano e nella Republica Argentina. XII. On the small mammals collected by Dr. Borelli in Bolivia and northern Argentina. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Univerista di Torino 13 (315): 1 4. 0259 Description of a new bat from Selangore. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 360-362. 0260 On a small collection of mammals obtained by Mr. Alfred Sharpe. C.B., in Nyasaland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 391-394. 0261 Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale. XX. Descriptions of two new cuscuses (Phalanger) obtained by Dr. Loria in British New Guinea. Annali di Mu.'ieo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a). (OS. .39) 19: 5-8. 0262 On seven new small mammals from Ecuador and Venezuela. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 1: 451^57. 0263 On the mammals obtained by Mr. John Whitehead during his recent expedition to the M. R. O. THOMAS 47 Philippines. With ticid notes by the collector. Tninsuclions of the Zoological Socielv of London 14: 377-412, pis. 3()-36. 0264 Descriptions of two new cuscuses (Phalanger). Novilales Zoolof>icae, 5: 433—134. (1265 Descriptions of new Bornean and Sumatran mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hislorv: including Zoology. Botany and Cieology, London (7) 2: 245-251. (1266 Descriptions of new mammals from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 2: 265-275. (1267 On the Zululand form of Livingstone's antelope. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 2: 317. (I26S Notes on various American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 2: 318-320. 0269 The scientific names of the badger and the common vole. Zoologist, London (4) 2: 263-264. 1899 0270 On mammals collected by Mr. J. D. La Touche at Kuatun, N.W. Fokicn. China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( 1S9X): 769-775. 0271 On some small mammals from the District of Cuzco, Peru. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 3; 40-44. 0272 On a new species of Marmosa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 3: 44-45. 0273 On new small mammals from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 3: 152-155. 0274 Description of a new Phascogale from British New Guinea, obtained by Dr. L. Loria. Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 4(1) 20; 191-192. 0275 [Exhibition of the skull of a baboon recently obtained at Aden by Messrs. Percival and Dodson]. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28 November: 7. 0276 Descriptions of new Neotropical mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 4: 278-288. 0277 Descriptions of new rodents from the Orinoco and Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 4: 378-383. 1900 0278 Exhibition of the skull of an apparently new species of baboon from Aden, proposed to be named Papio arabicus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ( 1899): 929. 0279 A new bat from the Key Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 5: 145. 0280 The geographical races of the tayra (Galictis barbara). with notes on abnormally coloured individuals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 5: 145-148. 0281 New South-American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 5: 148-153. 0282 Description of a new fruit-bat from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 5: 216-217. 0283 Descriptions of new Neotropical mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 5: 217-222. 0284 [Possible invalidity of Thylacoinys.\ [p. 223]. In Waite. E. R., The generic name Thylacomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 5: 222-223. 0285 [Exhibition of a kangaroo from northern Australia allied to Macropus eugenii] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20 February : 23. 0286 [Exhibition of a kangaroo from western Australia, apparently referable to Macropus robustus.l Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20 February: 23. 0287 [Enumeration of species obtained by Mr. H. J. Mackinder during his recent expedition to Mount Kenya, British East Africa] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20 February: 24-25. 0288 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some mounted heads of antelopes from Fashoda and the Sobat River. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 84-85. 48 J. E. HILL 0289 On the mammals obtained in south-western Arabia by Messrs. Percival and Dodson. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 95-104. 0290 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skin of a new species of kangaroo, proposed to be called MacTopiis bedfordi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 112-113. 0291 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, a skin of a new subspecies of kangaroo from western Australia, proposed to be named Macropus robustus cervinns. Proceedings of the Zoo- logical Society of London 113. 0292 List of mammals obtained by Mr. H. J. Mackinder during his recent expedition to Mount Kenya. British East Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of iMndon 173-18(1. 1 lig. 0293 Descriptions of new Neotropical mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 5; 269-274. 0294 Descriptions of two new Sciuropteri discovered by Mr. Charles Hose in Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zooloi;y. Botanv and Geology. London (7) 5: 275^276. 0295 Descriptions of two new murines from Peru and a new hare from Venezuela. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 5: 354-357. 0296 A new skunk from Peru. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 5: 499-5(X). 0297 On giant squirrels from the Amazonian region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 6: 137-139. 0298 List of the mammals obtained by Dr. G. Franco Grillo in the Province of Parana, Brazil. Annali di Mtiseo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2a), (O.S. 40) 20: 546-549. 0299 Descriptions of new rodents from western South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7)5: 294-302. 0300 On the "Tohi", the East African reedbuck currently known as Cervicapra bohor. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 6: 303-304. 0301 Descriptions of new rodents from western South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7)6: 383-387. 0302 A new dassie from north Nyasaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, l-ondon (7) 6: 387. 0303 On Equus penricei , a representative of the mountain zebra (Equus zebra L.) discovered by Mr. W. Penrice in Angola. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 6: 465—466. 0304 New Peruvian species of Conepatus. Phyllotis, and Akodon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 6: 466-469. 0305 The white rhinoceros on the Upper Nile. Nature. London 62: 599. 0306 The red flying squirrel of the Natuna Islands. Noyitates Zoologicae 7: 592. 0307 [Review of P. Matschie's "Die Fledermause des Berliner Museums fur Naturkunde" | 0308 [On mammals obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith during his latest expedition from Somaliland by Lake Rudolf to the Upper Nile j Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20 November: 4. 1901 0309 [Letter to Mr. P. L. Sclater regarding Thomas' proposals for formalizing the ■Minutes" and "Abstracts" of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. | Evidently printed by the Zoological Society of London as a broadsheet for circulation. 0310 List of mammals obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith during his recent journey from Lake Rudolf to the Upper Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (I9(kl): 8(M> 807. 0311 New mammals from Peru and Bolivia, with a list of those recorded from the Inambari River, Upper Madre de Dios. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 7: 178-190. 0312 A new free-tail bat from the Lower Amazons. Annals and .Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Uindon (7) 7: 190 191. 0313 The generic names Myrmecophaga and Didelphis. The American Naturalist, Boston 35: 143-145. M. R. O. THOMAS 49 0314 New South American Sciuri, Heleromys. Cavia, and Caluromys. Annals and Magazine of Naliiral History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 7: 192-196. 11315 On the mammals of the Balearic Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Societv of London 1: 3.S-;4. 0316 [Spanish article ("Una Traduccion") on collections from the Balearic Islands.] 'El Bien Publico' . Mahin, 26 August. 0317 A new scotophiline bat from British East Africa, with the description of a new genus of the group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 7: 263-265. 0318 New species of Saccopteryx. Sciurus. Rhipidomys. and Tatu from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 7: 366-371. 0319 The name of the ogotona. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 14: 24. 0320 The name of the aard-vark. Proceedings of the Biological Society' of Washington 14: 24. 0321 The name of the viscacha. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 14: 25. 0322 A new spiny rat from La Guaira, Venezuela. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 14: 27-28. 0323 On a new genus and species of vespertilioninc bat from British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 7: 46I.M62. 0324 [On the more notable mammals lately obtained by Sir Harry Johnston in the Uganda Protectorate.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21 May: 45. 0325 On the more notable mammals obtained by Sir. Harry Johnston in the LIganda Protectorate. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 85-90, pi. 5. 0326 New Myotis. Artibeus. Sylyilagus. and Mctachirus from central and South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 7: 541-545. 0327 [History of a specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis in London Zoo; generic nomenclature of Rhinoccrotidae] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 4 June: 49-50. 0328 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater; with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 154-158. 0329 [Exhibition of a pair of antlers which had been sent home by Mr. Charles Hose, who had obtained them from central Borneo. [ Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 18 June: 54. 0330 [On Cervus spatulatus. sp. n.) [An unpublished proof, with three illustrations of the antlers, intended for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. In Thomas' collected works|. 0331 Some new African bats (including one from the Azores) and a new galago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 27-34. 0332 On a collection of mammals from the Kanuko Mountains, British Guiana. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 139-154. 0333 List of small mammals obtained by Mr. A. E. Pease, MP., during his recent expedition to Abyssinia, with descriptions of three new forms of Macroscelides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 154-156. 0334 On a new form of puma from Patagonia. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 188-189. 0335 On a collection of bats from Para. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7)8: 189-193. 0336 New Neotropical mammals, with a note on the species of Reithrodon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 246-255. 0337 New species of Macroscelides and Glauconycleris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Z.oology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 255-257. 0338 New insular forms of Nasua and Dasyprocta. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 271-273. 50 J. E. HILL 0339 On a collection of small mammals from the Upper Nile obtained by Mr. R. M. Hawker. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 8: 273-278. 0340 On a collection of bats from Paraguay. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 8: 435^43. 0341 On mammals obtained by Mr Alphonsc Robert on the Rio Jordao. S.W. Minaes Gcraes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 8: 526-536. 0342 New species of Oryzomys. Proechimys, Cavia, and Sylvilagits from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 8: 5.36-539. 0343 On some kangaroos and bandicoots from Barrow Island and the mainland. Novitates Zoologicae. London 8: 394-396. 0344 Antilope nouvelle. Cephalophus weynsi. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Beige, Bruxelles. Tervuren, (C), Zoologie 2; 15-16. pi. 6. 0345 [On a five-horned giraffe obtained by Sir Harry Johnston near Mount Elgon.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 November: 4. 1902 0346 On the five-horned giraffe obtained by Sir Harrv Johnston near Mount Elgon. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ('1901) 2: 474-483. figs. 42-48. 0347 Remarks on the reproduction of the duckbill. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1901) 2: 624-625. [With G. Metcalfe]. 0348 A new blue duiker from Nyasaland. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 9: 58-59. 0349 On mammals from the Serra do Mar. Parana, collected by Mr. Alphonsc Robert. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 9; 59-64. 0350 On mammals from Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the region north of that place Annals and Magazine of Natural History; includini; Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 125-143. 0351 [A description of two new rodents discovered by Mr. P. O. Simons near Potosi, Bolivia.) Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological .Society of London 18 February: 24. 0352 [On some new mammals from northern Nyasaland] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 18 February: 24. 0353 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, the skin and skull of a yellow-backed duiker {Cephalo- phus sylvicultrix) from N.E. Rhodesia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 1-2. 0354 On two new genera of rodents from the highlands of Bolivia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 114-117, pis. 8. 9 Jfigs. 1-12]. 0355 On some new mammals from northern Nvasaland. Proceedings of the Zooloi;ical Society of London I: \\S-\2\. 0356 On the bear of Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 215-217. 0357 On two new species of Mus discovered by Mr. S. L. Hinde in British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Z.oolovy. Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 218-220. 0358 On a new genus of vcspertilionine bat from New Guinea Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 9: 22l>-222. 0359 On mammals collected by Mr. Perry O. Simons m the southern part of the Bolivian Plate:iu Annals and Magazine of Natural History; mcludini; Zoology, Bolanv and Geoloi;y. I.oniloii (7) 9: 222-230. 0360 On mammals collected at Cruz del Ejc. central Cordova, by Mr. P. O. Simons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 237-245. 0361 On the geographical races of the kinkajou. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 266 269. M. R. O. THOMAS 51 0362 On a new species of Alheriiru discovered by Capt. Guy Burrows on the Congo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 269-271 . 0363 A new Hipposiderus from Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 271-272. 0364 New species of Dipodillus and Psammomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 362-365. 0365 A new genet from British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 365-366. 0366 [On the mammals obtained during the Whitaker expedition to Tripoh.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 6 May: 39. 0367 On the mammals collected during the Whitaker expedition to Tripoli. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 2-13. 0368 The Lvcaon and Pedeles of British East Africa, and a new gerbille from N. Nyasa. L Lycaon [pp. 438-140|. 11. Pedetes [pp. 440-441|. III. Tatera liodon sp. nov. [pp. 441^42]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 438-442. 0369 On the species of Mydaus found in Borneo and the Natuna Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 9: 442-444. 0370 On a new marmot from north Siberia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 9: 444-445. 0371 Description of a new Uromys from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 9: 446^47. 0372 The generic names of the peccaries, northern fur seal, and sea leopard. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 153-154. 0373 Notes on the phyllostomatous genera Mimon and Tonatia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 53-54. 0374 A method of fixing the type in certain genera. Science, New York (N.S.), 16: 114-115, [With numerous others[. 0375 On Marmosa marmota and elegans. with descriptions of new subspecies of the latter. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 158-162. 0376 The genet of the Balearic Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 162-163. 0377 On two new mammals from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 163-166. 0378 A new vole from the Lower Yang-tse-kiang. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 166-169. 0379 Diagnosis of a new Central American porcupine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 169. 0380 A new dik-dik from British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 242-243. 0381 On a new monkey from Nyasaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 243-244. 0382 On two new hares allied to Oryctolagus crassicaudatus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 244-246. 0383 New forms of Saimiri, Phyllolis, Coendou, and Cyclopes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 246-250. 0384 On the panda of Sze-chuen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology (7) 10: 251-252. 0385 On the East-African representative of the bongo and its generic position. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 309-310. 0386 On some new forms of Oloniys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 311-314. 0387 [Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the East African representative of the bongo antelope, Boocercus euryceros isaaci.j Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 18 November: 7. 52 J- E. HILL 0388 A new Rynchocyon from Nyasaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 10: 403-404. 0389 On five new mammals from Arabia and Persia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 487— 49L 0390 Two new Australian small mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 491^92. 0391 On Azara's "Chauve-souris onzieme" (Myotis ruber. Geoff.) and a new species allied to it. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 493-494. 0392 On the mole of the Roman district. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 10: 515-517. 0393 On the generic names Notophorus, Alces. Dama. and Cephalotes. with remarks on the "one-letter rule" in nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 197-198. 0394 On some mammals from Coiba Island, off the west coast of Panama. Novilates Zoologicae 9: 135-137. 1903 0395 On a collection of mammals from Abyssinia, including some from Lake Tsana. collected by Mr. Edward Degen. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1902) 2: 308-316. 0396 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some specimens of the East-African bongo antelope (Boocercus eurvceros isaaci). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1902) 2: 319-320. 0397 On a remarkable new hare from Cape Colony. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 11: 78-79. 0398 On two new squirrels of the Funisciurus pyrrhopus group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) II: 79-81. 0399 New species of Oxyniycterus. Thrichomys. and Ctenomys from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology (7) 11: 226-229. 04(K) Two new glossophagine bats from Central America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 11: 286-289. 0401 Note on the technical name of the Tasmanian devil. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) II: 289. 0402 A new duiker from West Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 11: 289-291. 0403 On a collection of mammals from the small islands off the coast of western Panama. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 39—42. 0404 [Exhibition of the skin of a monkey from Kweichow. China.) Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 17 March: 29. 0405 [Exhibition of adult and young examples of a new bush duiker from British East Africa.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 17 March: 29. 0406 New mammals from Chiriqui. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 11: 376-382. 0407 Two South American forms of Rhogeessa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 11: 382-383. 0408 [On some mammals collected by Capt. H. N. Dunn. R.A.M.C. in the Egyptian Sudan.) Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21 April: 33. 0409 On three new forms of Peromyscus obtained by Dr. Hans Gadow, F.R.S. , and Mrs. (iadow in Mexico. Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 11: 484-487. 0410 New forms of Sciurus, Oxyniycterus, Kannabateomys, Proechimys, Dasyprocia, and Caluromys from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) II: 487—493. 041 1 Two new dormice of the genus Eliomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) II: 494-496. 0412 On the species of the genus Rhinopoma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 11: 496-499. M. R.O.THOMAS 53 0413 [Exhibition of the skull of a remarkable form of Gazella granlij Minutes of the Proceedings of the /Mological Society of London Ifi June: 44. f)414 On two new Muridae from Smyrna. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hisiorv; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 12: KSX-mO. 0415 Note sur les rongeurs de Tunisie recueiilis par M. Marias Blanc. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France. Paris 28: 171-174. [With E. Trouessartj. 0416 On a small collection of mammals from the Rio de Oro, western Sahara. Novitales Zoologicae 10: 3(K)-302. 1)417 Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis. Hapale. Oryzomys. Akodon, and Ctenomys. with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 12: 234-243. 0418 Exhibition of a skin and description of a new species of monkey. Rhinopithecus brelichi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London I: 224-225, pi. 21. 0419 Exhibition of specimens and description of a new species of duiker, Cephalophus ignifer. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 225-226. 0420 On some mammals collected by Capt. H. N. Dunn, R.A.M.C., in the Soudan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 : 294-30 1 . 0421 New African Mammalia of the genera Petrodrornus. Dendromys, Mas and Lepus. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hisiorv: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 12: 339-344. 0422 Notes on South American monkeys, bats, carnivores, and rodents, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 12: 455-464. 0423 A new mungoose from Namaqualand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 12: 465-466. 0424 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a new form of Grant's gazelle, proposed to be named Gazella granti robertsi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 119-121. 0425 Three new species of Nyctinomus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 12: 501-505. 0426 Three new bats from the Cameroons, discovered by Mr. G. L. Bates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 12: 633-635. 0427 [Exhibition of three new mammals from British New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. S. Meek.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3 November: 4. 0428 (On mammals collected at Chapada by Mr. A. Robert during the Percy Sladen Expedition to Central-Brazil.] Minutes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3 November: 4-5. 1904 0429 Exhibition of specimens and descriptions of new species of mammals from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1903) 2: 196-202, pi. 23. 0430 On the mammals collected by Mr. A. Robert at Chapada, Matto Grosso, (Percy Sladen Expedition to Central Brazil.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1903) 2: 232-244, pi. 27. 0431 Exhibition of, on behalf of Mr. W. E. de Winton, F.Z.S., a drawing of a female gazelle bearing a hair-whorl on the withers. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1903) 2: 317-318, tig. ,\5. 0432 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of the rodent Fornarina (gen. nov.) phillipsi and description of Heterocephalus ansorgei (sp. nov). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (m)}.) 2: yyty-T^yi . 0433 [Exhibition of a gazelle obtained by Mr. A. E. Butter in N.E. Africa.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 January, No. 1: 1-2. 0434 [A collection of mammals from Namaqualand presented to the British Musem by Mr. CD. Rudd] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2 February, No. 2: 5-6. (With H. Schwann], 0435 Two new mammals from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 13: 142-144. 54 J. E. Hll.L 0436 On a collection of mammals made by Mr. J. T. Tunney in Arhcm Land. Northern Territory of South Australia. Novilales Zoologkae II: 222-229. 0437 On a new rock-wallaby from north-west Australia. Novilales Zoologkae II: 365-366. 0438 [Exhibition of the skull of a buffalo obtained by Col. Delmc-Radcliffe in Ankole. S.W. Uganda.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 March, No. 4: 13. 0439 [Exhibiton of a rare fruit-bat of the genus Scotonycleris obtained in Fernando Po.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 March. No. 4: 13-14. 0440 New bats from British East Africa collected by Mrs. Hinde and from the Camcroons by Mr. G. L. Bates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 13: 206-210. 0441 New forms oi Saimiri, Saccopteryx, Halantinpteryx, and Thrichomys from the Neotropical region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 13: 250-255. 0442 [Exhibition of skulls of a small North Australian rock-wallaby (Peradorcas concinna Gould.).) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 April. No. 6:21. 0443 [Exhibition of the skin and skull of a hartebeest shot by Mr. F. J. Jackson in Uganda.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 April. No. 6: 21-22 0444 (An account of the mammals obtained by Mr. W. G. Doggett on the Anglo-German Boundary Commission.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 April, No. 6: 22-23. 0445 A new bat from the United States, representing the European Myotis (Leuconoe) daubentoni. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7). 13: 3S2-384. 0446 Three new bats. African and Asiatic. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 13: 384-3H8. 0447 On mammals from northern Angola collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorgc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 13: 405^21 . 2 tigs. 0448 Exhibition of a skin and skull and description of a new subspecies of gazelle. Gazella soemmerringii butteri. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 : 4-5 . 0449 On a collection of mammals from British Namaqualand. presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. D. Rudd. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London I: 171-183, pi. 6 [Hgs 1-2). [With H. Schwann). 0450 New Sciurus, Rhipidomys, Sylvilagus, and Caluromys from Venezuela. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zootogv, Botany and Geology. London (7) 14: 33-37. 0451 Ergebnissc zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra O. K. Zoologischer Anzeiger 27: 722- 724. [With G. Schneider). 0452 On a collection of mammals obtained in Somaliland by Major M.N. Dunn. R.A.M.C.. with descriptions of allied species from other localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Ix)ndon (7) 14: 94-105. 1 Hg. 0453 On some small mammals collected by Mr. A M. Mackilligin in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 14: 155-159. 0454 Exhibition of. and remarks upon, the skull of a new form of buffalo from Uganda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 : 37 1 . 0455 Exhibition and description of a new species of fruit-bat from Fernando Po. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 371-372. 0456 Exhibition of a skin and description of a new subspecies of hartebeest from Uganda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 : 455^56. 0457 On mammals collected during the Uganda Boundary Commission bv the late Mr. W G. Doggett, and presented to the British Museum by Col. C. Delme-Radclifle. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 : 459-465, fig. 95. 0458 New species of Pteropus, Mas and Pogonomys from the Australian region. Novilales Zoologkae 1 1 : 597~«X). 0459 New Callilhrix, Midas. Felis. Rhipidomys, and Proechimys from Brazil and Ecuador. M. R. O. THOMAS 55 Annals and Magazine oj Natural Histnr\; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 14: 188-196. ()4M) New bats and rodents from West Afriea, the Malay Peninsula, and Papuasia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 14: 196-202. 0461 On shrews from British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 14: 236-241. 0462 On the osteology and systematic position of the rare Malagasy bat Myzopoda aurita. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 2-6, pi. 1 [tigs. 1-8). 0463 The forest pig of Central Africa. Nature, London 70: 577. 0464 [Mammals obtained in the island of Fernando Po by Mr. E. Seimund.J Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 November, No. 10: 12. 0465 [On Hylochoerus, the forest-pig of Central Africa.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological , Society of London 15 November, No. 10: 12-13. 0466 On some mammals from British New Guinea presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. A. W. Monckton, with descriptions of other species from the same region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 14: 397^03. 0467 [Exhibition of a pair of gazelles from Jerusalem.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13 December, No. 12: 19. 1905 0468 On mammals from the island of Fernando Po. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1904) 2: 183-193, pi. 13. 0469 On Hylochoerus. the forest pig of central Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London H9i)4), 2: 193-199, pi. 14 )ligs. 1-3), 15 jfigs. 1-5). 0470 Exhibition of specimens and description of a new gazelle from Palestine. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1904) 2: 347-349. 0471 New African mammals of the genera Glauconycteris, Lutra. Funisciurus, Arvicanthus, Lophiomys, and Procavia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 15: 77-83. 0472 )An account of a second collection of mammals made by Mr. C. H. B. Grant for Mr. C. D. Rudd's exploration of South Africa.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21 February, no. 15: 10. [With H. Schwann). 0473 A new Cricetuliis from Mongolia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 15: 322-323. 0474 New ground squirrels of the Xerus erythropus group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 15: 387-390. 0475 [Account of a third collection of mammals made by Mr. C. H. B. Grant for Mr. C. D. Rudd's exploration of South Africa.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 18 April, No. 18: 23. [With H. Schwann). 0476 On some new Japanese mammals presented to the British Museum by Mr. R. Gordon Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 15: 487-495, 1 fig. 0477 [Exhibition of a new golden mole obtained in connection with Mr. C. D. Rudd's exploration of South Africa. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16 May, No. 20: 5. 0478 New Neotropical Molossus, Conepatus, Nectomys, Proechimys, and Agouti, with a note on the genus Mesomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 15: 584-591. 0479 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. IL List of mammals from the Wakkerstroom District, south-eastern Transvaal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 129- 138. [With H. Schwann|. 0480 [Exhibition of a new bushbuck.[ Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 6 June, No. 21 : 9. 0481 [Exhibition of mammals and birds from Japan.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 6 June, No. 21: 9-10. 56 J. E. HILL 0482 On a second collection of mammals obtained by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Angola. Annals and Magazine of Natural Histon; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 16: 169- 178. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0483 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. III. List of the mammals obtained by Mr. Grant in Zululand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1; 254-276. pi. 16. [With 11 Schwann|. 0484 New Neotropical Chrolopterus. Sciurus. Neacomys, Coendou, Proechimys, and Marmosa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 16: 308-314. 0485 On a remarkable new squirrel from Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 16: 314-315. 0486 Suggestions for the nomenclature of the cranial length measurements and of the cheek teeth of mammals. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18: 191 -196. 1 fig. 0487 On some Australasian mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 16: 422—428. 0488 The generic names given by Frisch in 1775. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 16: 461—464. 0489 Description of a new golden mole (Amblysomi4S corriae) from Cape Colony. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 57-58. 0490 Description of a new bushbuck ( Tragelaphus haywoodi) from British East Africa. Proceed- ings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 180-182. 0491 Exhibition of specimens of mammals and birds from Japan and description of a new marten (Muslela melampus bedfordi). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 182-183, 0492 A new genus and two new species of bats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 16: 572-576. 0493 [Paper on mammals collected in Japan by Mr. M. P. Anderson for His Grace the Duke of Bedford.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28 November. No. 23: 18-19. 0494 [Exhibition of the tail vertebrae of a dormouse of the genus Eliomys.J Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 12 December, No. 24: 2L 0495 [On a collection of mammals obtained by Col. A. C. Bailward in Persia and Armenia,] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 12 December, No. 24: 21-22, 1906 0496 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia, I. List of mammals obtained by Mr, M, P, Anderson in Japan. [With Appendix [pp. 357-363] on collections from the islands of Oki, Yakushima, and Tanegashima], Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1905) 2: 331-363, pi. 9. 0497 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, tails of dormice showing regeneration of vertebrae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1905) 2: 481—494, figs. 70-71. 0498 On a collection of mammals from Persia and Armenia presented to the British Museum by Col. A, C. Bailward. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1905) 2: 519-527, pi. 16. 0499 On the generic arrangement of the Australian rats hitherto referred to Conilurus. with remarks on the structure and evolution of their molar cusps. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including /.oology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 17: 81-85. ()5(K) A new aquatic genus of Muridae discovered by Consul I.. Soderstrom in Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 17: 86-88, 0501 On a second species of Lenothrix from the Liu Kiu Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 17 88-89, 0502 [Exhibition of the skull of a forest-pig (Hylochoerus) sent by Mr. G. L, Bates from the Cameroon.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16 January, No, 25: 1-2, 0503 New African mammals of the genera Cercopithecus, Scotophilus, Miniopterus, Crocidura, M. R. O. THOMAS 57 Georychus, and Heliophobius. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17: 173-174. 0504 |An account of a collection of mammals made by Mr. C. H. B. Grant at Knysna, Cape Colony. I Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20 Februarv, No. 27: W'. [With H. Schwann]. 0505 New mammals from the Australian region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17; 324-332. 0506 [Exhibition of a brown bear from the Shan States.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20 March, No. 29: 17. 0507 "Legalised murder". Evening Standard and St. James Gazette, Londor. 27 March. [Signed 'Euthanasia' but bound into Thomas' collected works. In favour of 'legalised suicide']. 0508 New insectivores and voles collected by Mr. A. Robert near Trcbizond. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17: 415^21. 0509 A third genus of the Ichthyornys group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17: 421-^23. 0510 New Asiatic mammals of the genera Kerivotda, Eliomys, and Lepus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17: 423-426. 051 1 On a new genus of free-tail bat from N.E. Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17: 499-501. 0512 [Exhibition of the skin of a remarkable new duiker from Nyasaland, which had been presented to the British Museum by Mr. S. W. Frank. | Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London I May. No. 31: I. 0513 [On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W. E. Balston.| Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 May, No. 31: 1-2. 0514 [On a collection of mammals made by Mr. W. Stalker in the Northern Territory of South Australia and presented to the National Collection by Sir William Ingram. Bart., and the Hon. John Forrest.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 May, No. 32: 6. 0515 [On mammals collected by Mr. C. H. B. Grant in the Zoutpansberg District of the Transvaal, and presented to the National Collection by Mr. C. D. Rudd] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 29 May, No. 33: 10. 0516 A new vole from Spain. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 17: 576-577. 0517 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the skull of a new forest-pig. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London I: 2-3. fig. 1. 0518 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — IV. List of mammals obtained by Mr. Grant at Knysna. Cape Colony. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 159-168. 0519 Descriptions of new mammals from Mount Ruwenzori. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 18: 136-147. 0520 On a new pygmy antelope obtained by Col. J.J. Harrison in the Semliki Forest. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 18: 148-150. 0521 Description of a new subspecies of bear. Ursus arctos shanorum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 231-232. fig. 58. 0522 Three new Palaearctic mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 18: 220-222. 0523 Two new genera of small mammals discovered by Mrs. Holms-Tarn [spelt Holms-Tarn in title and in text, but with manuscript correction to Holmes-Tarn by Thomas in his collected works| in British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 18: 222-226. 0524 On some African bats and rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology (7) 18: 294-299. 0525 New mammals collected in north-east Africa by Mr. Zaphiro, and presented to the British Museum by W. N. McMillan, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 18: 300-306. 0526 A new species of duiker. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 463-464. pi. 35. 58 J. E. HILL 0527 On mammals collected in southwest Australia for Mr. W. E. Balston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 468-478. 0528 On mammals from northern Australia presented to the National Museum by Sir. Wm. Ingram. Bt.. and the Hon. John Forrest. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 536-.S43. pi. 37 |tigs. 1^2). 0529 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — V. List of mammals obtained by Mr Grant in N.E. Transvaal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: ."iyS-Syi |With H Schwann]. 0530 [Suggested amendments to the report of the Committee on Zoological Nomenclature laid before the International Congress on Zoology, held at Boston, Mass. in 1907.\ Linnean Society of London: 1—4. 0531 Notes on South-American rodents. I. — A new name for Sciurus roherti, Thos. |p. 442). IL - On the allocation of certain species hitherto referred respectively to Oryzomys, Thontasomys. and Rhipidomys |pp. 442—445]. IIL - A new Oecomys and two new species of Holochilus 1pp. 445-448]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geo/ogv. London (7) 18: 442-448. 0532 Note on Limnomys. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 19: 199. 0533 1 . Mammals. In: The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum 2: 3-66. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). 1907 0534 List of further collections of mammals from western Australia, including a scries from Bernier Island, obtained for Mr W. E. Balston; with field notes by the collector. Mr. G. C. Shortridge. JWith an appendix on a collection from Bernier Island, pp. 772-777). Proceed- ings of the Zoological Society of London (1906): 763-777. 0535 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — VI. List of mammals obtained by Mr. Grant m the eastern Transvaal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1906): 779-782. JWith H. Schwann]. 0536 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia. II. — List of small mammals from Korea and Quclpart. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1906): 858-865. 0537 On further new mammals obtained by the Ruwenzori Expedition Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 19: 1 18-123. 0538 [Exhibition of the skin of a new monkey from the Ituri Forest, obtained during the recent Ruwenzori Expedition.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 January. No. 38: 1. 0539 [On mammals collected in Mindanao, Philippines, by Mr. M. P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5 February. No. 39: 5. 0540 New mammals from Lake Chad and the Congo, mostly from the collections made during the Alexander-Gosling Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: iruluding Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 19: 369-387. 0541 On a remarkable mountain viscacha from southern Patagonia, with diagnoses of other members of the group Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 19: 3.39-444' 0542 On the occurrence of the edible dormouse (Glis) in Sardinia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (7) 19: 444-445. 0543 New mammals from Lake Chad and the Congo, mostly from the collections made during the Alexander-Gosling Expedition Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (7) 19: 519-521. 0544 On Buffon's "Pore-Epic de Malaca " Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 20: 65. 0545 A new monkey from the Ituri forest. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2-3, pi. L 0546 Exhibition of a collection of mammals and birds from the islands of Saghalien and Hokkaido. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London UK). 0547 TTie Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia — IIL On mammals obtained M. R.O.THOMAS 59 by Mr. M. P. Anderson in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of ihe Zoological Society of London 140-142. 0548 On three new mammals from British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 70-74. 0549 On Neotropical mammals of the genera Callicebus. /Grisonj. Reithrodontomvs, Ctenomvs, Dasypus, and Marmosa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (7) 20: 161-168. \Grison omitted from title but added in manuscript by Thomas in his collected works]. 0550 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — VIL List of mammals obtained by Mr. Grant at Coguno, Inhambane. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 285-299. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0551 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia. — IV. List of small mammals from the islands of Saghalien and Hokkaido. (With appendix on the cold-blooded vertebrates, by G. A. Boulenger |p. 414]). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 404-414. 0552 On mammals from northern Persia, presented to the National Museum by Col. A. C. Bailward. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 196-202. 0553 A subdivision of the old genus Nesokia. with descriptions of three new members of the group, and of a Mus from the Andamans. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 202-207. 0554 On the occurrence of Acanthoglossus in British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 293-294. 0555 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia. — V. Second list of mammals from Korea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 462^66. 0556 On a new dormouse from Asia Minor, with remarks on the subgenus "Dryomys". Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 406-107. 0557 A new Acanthoglossus from the island of Salawatti. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 498-499. 0558 A new flying squirrel from Formosa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (7) 20: 522-523. 1908 0559 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — VIII. List of mammals obtained by Mr. Grant at Beira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1907): 774-782. 0560 The genera and subgenera of the Sciuropterus group, with descriptions of three new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 1: 1-8. 0561 The species of the genus Dactylopsita. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 1: 122-124. 0562 On a new oribi obtained by Major Powell-Cotton in British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 1: 177- 178. [With R. C. Wroughton]. 0563 On the large flying squirrels referred to Petaurisla nilida. Desm. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 1: 250-252. 0564 The nomenclature of the flying-lemurs. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) I: 252-255. 0565 The missing premolar of the Chiroptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 1: 346-348. 0566 A new deer of the brocket group from Venezuela. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 1: 349-350. 0567 On the generic position of the groups of squirrels typihed by "Sciurus" berdmorei and pernyi respectively, with descriptions of some new oriental species. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 18: 244-249. 0568 On certain African and S. — American otters. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) I: 387-395. 60 J. E. HILL 0569 New Asiatic Apodemits. Evotomys. and Lepus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. lAindon (8) 1: 447—150. 0570 [On mammals collected by Mr. C. H. B. Grant near Tette, Zambesia, and resume of the results of the Rudd exploration of South Africa.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 26 May, No. 59: 27-28. 0571 The nomenclature of certain lorises. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 1 : 467-469. 0572 [On mammals from the Provinces of Chih-li and Shan-si. N. China, collected by Mr. M. P. Anderson for the Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16 June. No. 60: 32. 0573 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia. — VI. List of mammals from the Shantung Province, north China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5-10. 0574 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia. — VIL List of mammals from the Tsu-shima Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological .Society of London 47-54. 0575 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia. — IX. List of mammals from the Mongolian Plateau. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 104-110. 0576 Four new Amazonian monkeys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 2: 88-91. 0577 The Psammomys of the alluvial soil of the Nile Delta. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 2: 91-92. 0578 Note on the squirrel genus "Zetis" . Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 2: 136. 0579 On mammals from the Malay Peninsula and Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 301-306. 0580 A new jerboa from China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 2: 307-308. 0581 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — IX. List of mammals obtained by Mr. Grant on the Gorongoza Mountains. Portuguese Southeast Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 164-173. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0582 New bats and rodents in the British Museum collection. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (H) 2: 370-375. 0583 A new fruit bat from Sierra Leone. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 37.5-376. 0584 The Rudd exploration of South Africa. — X. List of mammals obtained by Mr. Grant near Tette. Zambesia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 535-553. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0585 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia. — X. List of mammals from the Provinces of Chih-li and Shan-si. northern China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 63.^-646. p].2,2. 0586 On mammals collected by Mr. H. C. Robinson on Tioman and Aor Islands. South China Sea. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums. Kuala Lumpur 2: 101-1(16 0587 A new tree kangaroo from British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 452—453. 0588 A new species of the Mascarene genus Eliurus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 45.3-454. 0589 A new Pogonomys presented to the British Museum by Sir William Ingram. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 495^96. 0590 A new Akodon from Tierra del Fuego. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 496-497. 0591 The squirrels described as Sciurus sleerii from Balabac and Palawan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 2: 498. 0592 [On mammals collected in the Provinces of Shan-si and Shen-si. northern China, by Mr M. P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 December. No. 63: 44-45. M. R. O. THOMAS 61 1909 0593 On mammals from Inkerman, north Queensland, presented to the National Museum by Sir William Ingram. Bt., and the Hon. John Forrest. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1908): 788-794, pi. 43. [With G. Dollman]. 0594 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration in eastern Asia. — XI. On mammals from the provinces of Shan-si and Shcn-si, northern China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of LonJon (1908): 963-983. 0595 Some mammals from N.E. Kimberley, Northern Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 149-152. 0596 On mammals collected in Turkestan by Mr. Douglas Carruthers. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 257-266. 0597 "On a collection of mammals from western Java, presented to the National Collection by Mr. W. E. Balston". Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 March, No. 68: 18-19. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0598 On the N. Australian rats referred to the genus Mesembriomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 372-374. 0599 New species of Paradoxurus of the P. philippinensis group, and a new Paguma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 374-377. 0600 New species of Oecomys and Marmosa from Amazonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 378-380. 0601 Two new macaques from western Java. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (H) 3: 380-381. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0602 Diagnoses of new mammals collected by Mr. H. C. Robinson in the Malay Peninsula and Rhio Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 439^*41. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0603 The generic arrangement of the African squirrels. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 3: 467^75. 0604 [Exhibition of specimens of a new rat which had been obtained by Mr. G. C. Shortridge during the Society's collecting expedition to Central America] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 June, No. 73: 32. 0605 New African small mammals in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 4: 98-1 12. 0606 A new gibbon from Annam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 4: 1 12-1 13. 0607 On a collection of mammals from western Java presented to the National Museum by Mr. W. E. Balston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 371-392. [With R. C. Wroughton). 0608 Two new mammals from northern Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 4: 197-198. 0609 Notes on some South American mammals, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 4: 230-242. 0610 A new rat from Guatemala. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 669-670. 061 1 Four new African squirrels. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 4: 476-479. 0612 A collection of mammals from northern and central Mantchuria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 4: 500-505. 0613 Diagnoses of new mammals collected by Mr. H. C. Robinson in the islands of the Straits of Malacca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8)4: .S34-.536. [With R. C. Wroughton[. 0614 New African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 4: 542-549. 0615 On mammals from the Rhio Archipelago and Malay Peninsula collected by Messrs. H. C. Robinson, C. Bodcn Kloss, and E. Seimund, and presented to the National Museum by the Government of the Federated Malay States. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 4: 99-129. [With R. C. Wroughton[. 62 J. E. HILL 1910 0616 New African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (K) 5: 83-92. 0617 Further new African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (K) 5: 191-202. 0618 A collection of mammals from eastern Buenos Ayres. with descriptions of related new mammals from other localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 5: 2.39-247. 0619 Further New African Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 5: 282-285. 0620 [Exhibition of the skin of a new potto from British East Africa.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 March. No. 81: 17. 0621 Ruwenzori Expedition reports - Mammalia. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 19: 481-518. pis. 30-34. [With R. C. Wroughton]. 0622 A new Chinese mole of the genus Scaplochirus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 5: 350-351 . 0623 Three new West African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 5: 351-354. 0624 New mammals from the East Indian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 5: 383-387. 0625 [Exhibition of a new monkey from the Malay Peninsula.) Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 April No. 83: 25. 0626 [Exhibition of a further consignment of mammals from China, collected by Mr. Malcolm Anderson for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 April. No. 83: 25-26. 0627 Three new African rodents. Antials and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 5: 419^22. 0628 Two new mammals from the Malay Peninsula. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) S; 424—126. 0629 Three new Asiatic mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 5: 534-536. 0630 A new genus of fruit-bats and two new shrews from Africa. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 6: 111-114. 0631 Mammals from the River Supinaam. Demerara, presented by Mr. F. V. McConncll to the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Gco/ogv. London (8) 6: 184-1X9. 0632 Notes on African rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 6: 221-224. 0633 A new potto from British East Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 536-537. 0634 List of mammals from Mount Kilimanjaro, obtained by Mr. Robin Kemp, and presented to the British Museum by Mr. C. D. Rudd. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 6: 308-316. 0635 New African mammals in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 6: 426-432. 0636 A new monkey from the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 634-635. 0637 A collection of small mammals from China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 636-<)38. 0638 On mammals collected in Ccara. N.E. Brazil, by Fraulcin Dr. Snethlage. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 6: 500-503. 0639 Four new South-American rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 6: 503-506. 0640 New genera of Australasian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 6: 506-508. 0641 The generic arrangement of the Australian murines hitherto referred to "Mus". Annals and M. R. O. THOMAS 63 Magazine of Natural Historv; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (X) 6: 603-607. 0642 New Australian Muridae of the genus Pseudomys. A nnals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (X) 6: 607-610. 0643 A new genus for Daclylopsila palpator. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 6: 610. 0644 "The mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus: an attempt to hx the i .ipes of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species." Abstracts of the ,'roceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13 December, No. 89: 50. |A preliminary version]. 1911 0645 Three new South American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 1 13-1 15. 0646 New Asiatic Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 205-209. 0647 [On mammals collected in the Provinces of Kan-su and Szc-chuan, western China, by Mr. Malcolm Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 February, No. 90: 3-5. 0648 The mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London I2(V-1.S8. 0649 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia. — XIU. On mammals from the provinces of Kan-su and Szc-chuan, western China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 158-180. 0650 On new African Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 378-383. 0651 A new vole from eastern Asia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 383-384. 0652 Three new mammals from Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 384-387. 0653 |On mammals collected in southern Shen-si, central China, by Mr. Malcolm P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia.] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 25 April, No. 95: 26-27. 0654 On mammals collected by the Rev. G. T. Fox in northern Nigeria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 7: 457-463. 0655 New mammals from tropical South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 513-517. 0656 A new murine genus and species from Sind, with diagnoses of three other new genera based on previously known species of "Mus". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 20: 996-9y9a. 0657 Three new African rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 7: 590-593. 0658 Three new mammals from the lower Amazons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 7: 606-608. 0659 A new kangaroo from the Northern Territory of Western Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 7: 609-610. 0660 List of small mammals obtained by Mr. G. Fenwick Owen on the Upper Gambia and in Fouta Djallon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 117-124. 0661 New rodents from S. America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 250-256. 0662 New African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 8: 375-378. 0663 Two new eastern bats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 378-380. 0664 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia. — XIV. On mammals from 64 J. E. Hll L southern Shen-si. central China. Proceedings oflhe Zoological Society of London 687-695. pi. 21. 0665 [On Talpa milleri sp. n.]. |An unpaginated proof from the Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London, incorporated into Thomas" collected works and marked by him in manuscript as unpublished]. 0666 [On mammals collected in the Provinces of Sze-chuan and Yunnan, western China, by Mr. Malcolm Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia.] Abstracts oflhe Proceedings oflhe Zoological Society of London 24 October, No. UK): 4S-5(). 0667 Three new rodents from Kan-su. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 720-723. 0668 Four new African carnivores. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 724-726. 0669 New rodents from Sze-chuan collected by Capt. F. M. Bailey. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 727-729. 0670 New mammals from central and western Asia, mostly collected by Mr. Douglas Carruthers. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 8: 758-762, 1912 0671 On small mammals from the Lower Amazon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 84-90. 0672 Notes on Phascogale and Chaelocerciis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 91-92. 0673 Revised determinations of two Far-Eastern species of Myospalax. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 93-95. 0674 A new genus of opossums and a new tuco-tuco. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 239-241 . 0675 XXVIL — Mammals of the Panyam Plateau, northern Nigeria. — II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 269-274. 0676 Two new Asiatic voles. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 348-350. 0677 [Exhibition of the skull of a German wild boar from Buden and of a Hungarian wild boar from Kolozsvar] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5 March. No. 105: 13-14. 0678 [Exhibition of the skin and skull of a viverrine carnivore from Tonkin] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 March. No. 106: 17-18. 0679 The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of eastern Asia. — XV. On mammals from the Provinces of Sze-chuan and Yunnan, western China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 127-14L 0680 On mammals from central Asia, collected by Mr. Douglas Carruthers. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 391-408. 0681 Three small mammals from S. America. Annals and Magazine of Natural HisU>ry; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 9: 408-410. 0682 Descriptions of two giant rats from New Guinea, presented to the British Museum bv the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S. Novilales Zoologicae 19: 91-92. 0683 On insectivores and rodents collected by Mr. F. Kingdon Ward in N.W. Yunnan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Ixindon (8) 9: 513-519. 0684 Ecsthitisizm in speling with a pie for lienal I. The Pioneer ov Simplified Speling 1 : (3): 33- 34. (May, 1912). 0685 List of a third collection of mammals from Panyam, N. Nigeria, presented by the Rev. Cj. T. Fox. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 683-686. 0686 New species of Crocidura and Pelaurisla from Yunnan. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 9: 686-688. 0687 The races of the European wild swine Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 390-393. M. R.O.THOMAS 65 0688 Two new genera and a new species of viverrine Carnivora. Proceedings of the Zoological Sociely of London 4y8-.S()3, figs. 61-^3. 0689 The generic names Cercomvs and Proechimys. Proceedings of ihe Biological Society of Washington IS: W^-We,. 0690 The technical name of the Tasmanian Devil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 25: 116. 0691 Mammals from the Ja river, Cameroons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 10: 41^3. 0692 Small mammals from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 10: 44-48. 0693 A new vespertilionine bat from Angola. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 10: 204-206. 0694 Two new species of Nasua. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 10: 228-230. l)69.'i Two new West-African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 10: 280-282. 0696 On a collection of small mammals from the Tsin-ling Mountains, central China, presented by Mr. G. Fcnwick Owen to the National Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (S) 10: 39.^-403. 0697 New bats and rodents from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 10: 40.3-41 1 . 0698 Two new races of mongoose. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 10: .S88-.S89. 0699 New Centrnnycteris and Ctenomys from S. America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 10: 638-640. 07(K) Simplifcid |sic] speling. Evening Standard, London 18 December. 1913 0701 Two new Australian mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 11: 79-80. 0702 On some rare Amazonian mammals from the collection of the Para Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 11: 1.30-1.36. 0703 On small mammals collected in Jujuy by Senor E. Budin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 11: 136-143. 0704 On some specimens of Glauconycteris from the Cameroons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 11: 144-145. 0705 Notes on South American Leporidae. ( 1 ) The small "tapeti" of Rio Janeiro [pp. 209-210]. (2) The hare of eastern Peru [pp. 210-211[. (3) The mountain hares of the Sylvilagus andinus group [pp. 212-214). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 11: 209-214. 0706 Four new shrews. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) II: 214-218. 0707 Ernst Hartert's expedition to the central western Sahara. IL Mammals. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 28-33. 0708 On African bats and shrews. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) II: 314-321. 0709 New forms of Akodon and Phyllotis, and a new genus for "Akodon" teguina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) II: 404-409. 0710 [Exhibition of a specimen of the Amazonian monkey, Callinxico snethlageri. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3-4. 071 1 On a remarkable new free-tailed bat from southern Bombay. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 22: 87-91, 2 figs. 0712 A new shrew from the Andaman Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (H) II: 468-469. 66 J. E. HILL 0713 New African Epimys and Jaculus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (K) 11: 482-485. 0714 On some mammals from Bali and Mysol. collected by Mr. E. Strescmann during the ■"Freiburger Molukken Expedition." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 11: 504-507. 0715 On certain of the smaller South American Cervidae. A. Brockets [pp. 585-588). B. The Ecuadorean pudu (Pudua mephistopheles. de Wint.) (pp. 588-589|. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) II: 585-589. 0716 Some new Ferae from Asia and Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 12: 88-92. 0717 On new mammals obtained by the Utakwa Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 12: 205-212. 0718 Some new species of Uromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 12: 212-217. 0719 A new genus of glossophagine bat from Colombia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 12: 270-271. 0720 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. IV. A new species of Leggada from Mysore. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 22: 242. [With K. V. Ryley]. 0721 The geographical races of the woolly opossum (Philander laniger). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 12: 358-361. 0722 A new species of dwarf potto. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 12: 387-388. 0723 List of mammals obtained by the Hon W. Rothschild. Ernst Hartert and Carl Hilgcrt in western Algeria during 1913. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 586-591. 0724 New mammals from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 12: 567-574. 1914 0725 The tree shrews of the Tupaia helangeri - chinensis group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 13: 243-245. 0726 On various South-American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 13: 345-363. 0727 Note on the genus Leggada. Journal of the Bombay Natural History .Society 22: 682. 0728 A new Soriculus from the Mishmi Hills. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 22: 683-683a. 0729 On mammals from Manus Island, Admiralty Group, and Ruk Island, Bismarck Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 13: 434^-439. 0730 New Asiatic and Australasian bats and a new bandicoot. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 13: 439^44. 0731 New Callicebus and Eumops from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 13: 480-481. 0732 "On a remarkable case of affinity between animals inhabiting Guiana. W. Africa, and the Malay Archipelago." Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5 May. No. 133: 36. [A preliminary version). 0733 Nomina conservanda in Mammalia. Zoologischer Anzeiger 44: 284—286. 0734 Rectification. Zoologischer Anzeiger 44: 528. [Corrections to 0733). 0735 On small mammals from Djarkent. central Asia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, U)ndon (8) 13: 563 573. 0736 Three new S. -American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 13: 573-575. 0737 Report on the mammals collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Ciuinea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 20: 31.5-324. 0738 On a remarkable case of affinity between animals inhabiting Guiana. West Africa and the Malay Archipelago. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 415-417. M. R. O. THOMAS 67 0739 Scientific results of the Mammal Survey. No. VII. [Notes on the mammals collected by Mr. G. C. Shortridge from Mount Popa and other parts of central Burma.] Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: 23-31 . 0740 New Nasuti, Lulra. and Proechimys from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (K) 14: 57-61 . 0741 New South-American rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (K) 14: 240-244. 0742 A new genus of bats allied to Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 14: 381-383. 0743 Four new small mammals from Venezuela. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 14: 4UI-414. 0744 Scientific results of the Mammal Survey. No. VIIL On Upper Burma squirrels referable to Sciurus sladeni and haringloni |pp. 197-199]. A new Leggadilla from Kumaon (p, 200]. Notes on Vandeleurui ]pp. 200-203]. Two new flying squirrels ]pp. 204-205]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: 197-205. 0745 On small mammals collected in Tibet and the Mishmi Hills by Capt. F. M. Bailey. Journal of the Bombay Natural Hi.story .Society 23: 230-233. 0746 Second list of small mammals from western Yunnan collected by Mr. F. Kingdon Ward. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 14: 472^75. 1915 0747 Notes on Emballonura. with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 137-140. 0748 Two new species of Leuconoe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 15: 170-172. 0749 On bats of the genera Nyctalus, Tylonycteris, and I'ipislrellus. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 15: 225-232. 0750 Scientific results of the Mammal Survey. No. IX. A new pipistrelle bat from Tenasserim ]pp. 413-414]. A new murine genus and species from Ceylon [pp. 414-416]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: 413-416. 0751 An easily made ear-plug for soldiers in the firing line. Land and Water, London 13 February. 0752 A new shrew of the genus Blarinella from Upper Burma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 335-336. 0753 Determination of Vesperugo vagans Dobson from "Bermuda". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 28: 69. 0754 The generic name Connochaeles of Lichtenstein. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 28: 69. 0755 The penis bone or "baculum" as a guide to the classification of certain squirrels. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 15: 383-387. 0756 On some pteropine bats from Vulcan and Dampier Islands, off the N.E. coast of New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 387-389. 0757 The geographical races of Citellus fulvus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 421—424. 0758 Notes on the genus Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 49.V499. 0759 On a minute shrew from Lake Baikal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 499-5(K). 0760 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. X. A. — The Indian bats assigned to the genus Myotis. I. Myotis proper jpp. 607-610]. II. Leuconoe [pp. 610-612). B. — Some notes on the viverrine genus Hemigalus ]pp. 6l2-613a]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: (A)l-6\?,a. 0761 On three new bats obtained by Mr. Willoughby Lowe in the Sudan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 15: 559-562. 68 J. n. iiiLi. 0762 Notes on bats of the genus Coleura. Annals and Magazine of Naiurut History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 15: 576-579. 0763 Notes on the Asiatic bainboo rats (Rhizomys. etc.). Annals and Magazine of \atiirat History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 16: 56-6L 0764 On bats of the genus Promops. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 16: 61-64. 0765 New African rodents and insectivorcs. mostly collected by Dr. C. Christy for the Congo Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Gco/ogy. London (8) 16: 14'6-I52. 0766 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XL A. — C)n pipistrelles of the genera Pipistrellus and Scotozous |pp. 29-34|. B. — The giant squirrels of Ceylon |pp. 34-37|. [With R. C. WroughtonJ. C. — The Singhalese species of Funamhulus (pp. 37-41]. [With R. C. Wroughton|. G. — A second species of Coelotnys from Ceylon |pp 49-50]. I. — On some specimens of Vandeleuria from Bengal, Bihar and Orissa |pp. 54-55]. K. — Notes on Taphozous and Saccolaimus ]pp. 57-63|. Journal of I he Bombay Natural History Society 24: 29-41.49-50.54-55.57-63. 0767 Richard Lvdekker (1849-1915). [Obituary]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 89: iii-vi. 0768 A special genus for the Himalayan bat known as Murina gri.<:ea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 16: 309-310. 0769 A new genus of phyllostome bat and a new Rhipidomys from Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 16: 310-312. 0770 Further notes on Asiatic bamboo-rats. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 16: 313-317. 0771 A new bat from northern Nigeria. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 16: 447—448. 0772 Phacochoerus as the generic name of the warthogs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 2»: 181. 0773 List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervuren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 16: 465—481. 1916 0774 The porcupine of Tenasserim and southern Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 17: 136-139. 0775 On the grouping of the South-American Muridae that have been referred to Phyllotis, Eunomys, and Eligmodontia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 17: I.W-143. 0776 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XII. A. — On squirrels obtained in Burma by Messrs. Shortridge and Macmillan on the Chindwin River, Upper Burma [pp. 224- 239, 1 pi.]. [With R. C. Wroughton| B. — Notes on the genus Cremmomys [pp. 239-243]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 24: 224-243, 1 pi. 0777 A new marmot from Chitral. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 24: 341-342. 0778 On the generic names of certain Old World monkeys. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 17: 179-181. 0779 Notes on Argentine, Patagonian and Cape Horn Muridae. [The mice of the Hesperomys laucha group pp. 182-185; The Cape Horn Euneomys pp. 185-186; The Oryzomys of the extreme south of South America pp. 186-187; The Cape Horn .Akodon p. 187]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 17: 182-187. 0780 [r.xhibition of the scalp and frontlet with horns of a male sable anielope from the l.uando River, Angola, which had been presented to the National Museum by Mr II (■ Varian. together with a female mask and horns] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 8 February. No 151: 1-2. 0781 A new binturong from Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 17: 270 271. M. R. O. THOMAS 69 1)7X2 A new genus for Sciuriis poensis and its allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hislorv; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (S) 17: 271-272. (1783 Notes on bats of the genus W/.vf/od/.s . Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 17: 272-276. (1784 A new sable antelope from Angola. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 298- 301,1 fig. 0785 The raees of Drernoinys pernyi. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 17: 391-394. 0786 A new rat from Tcnasserim. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 17: 425. 0787 Note on the name Corynorhiniis megalotis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 29: 127. 0788 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XIII. A. — On Muridae from Darjiling and the Chin Hills. 1 . — A new genus of giant rat from Sikkim | pp. 404-^07. 1 fig.]. 2. — A new rat allied to Epimys sabanus. from Darjiling |pp. 407^09. 1 tig ] 3. — On the large rats allied to Epimys bowersi [pp. 409^12]. 4. — The rats of the Epimys berdmorei group |pp. 412-414). 5. — A new mouse from Sikkim |pp. 414-415]. B. — Two new Indian bats |pp. 415^17). C. — On squirrels of the genus Dremomys [pp. 417—118]. D. — The squirrels of the Torncutes lokroides and mearsi groups [pp. 419— 422[. [With R. C. Wroughton[. E. — A new flying squirrel from Tenasserim [pp. 422—423]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 24: 404-423, 2 figs. 0789 On the rats usually included in the genus Aryicanlhis. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 18: 67-70. 0790 On Raltus as a generic name, with a note on the nomenclature of Echimys and Loncheres. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8)18:70-72. 0791 On the generic names applicable to the chevrotains (Tragulidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 18: 72-73. 0792 On small mammals obtained in Sankuru, south Congo, by Mr. II. Wilson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 234-239. 0793 On the generic names Rattus and Phyllomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 240. 0794 Three new African mice of the genus Dendromus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 18: 241-242. 0795 List of Microchiroptera, other than leaf-nosed bats, in the collection of the Federated Malay States Museums. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, Kuala Lumpur 7: 1-6. 0796 Some notes on the Echimyinac. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 18: 294-301. 0797 On the classification of the cavies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 18: 301-303. 0798 Two new Argentine rodents, with a new subgenus of Ctenomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 31)3-306. 0799 Two new species of Akodon from Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 334-336. 0800 The grouping of the South American Muridae commonly referred to Akodon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 336-340. 0801 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XIV (A) A new bat of the genus Marina from Darjiling ]pp. 639-640]. (B) The bandicoot of Mount Popa, and its allies [pp. 640- 643]. (C) On the rat known as Epimys jerdoni from LIppcr Burma ]pp. 643-644]. Journalof the Bombay Natural History Society 24: 639-644. 0802 A new bamboo rat from Perak. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 445-446. 0803 Two new Muridae from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8) 18: 478-480. 0804 [Note on Anourosorex squamipes and assamensis.] [p. 766]. In Wroughton, R. C, Bombay 70 J. E. HlLl Natural History Society's Mammal Survey of India. Burma and Ceylon Report No. 25. [Chin Hills]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 24: 758-773 1917 0805 Notes on the species of the genus Cavia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 19: 152-lf)0. 0806 A new bat of the genus Scotaecus |sic]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 19: 280-281 . 0807 A new species of Aconaemys [sic] from southern Chile. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (S) 19: 281-282. 0808 Some notes on three-toed sloths. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (8) 19: 352-357. 0809 Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals obtained by the Yale - National Geographic Society Peruvian Expedition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 68: (4), (Publication 2447) : 1-3. 0810 A new vole from Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 19: 450-»51. 081 1 On the small hamsters that have been referred to Cricetulus phaeus and camphelli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 19: 452-457. 0812 The grey squirrel in England. Field, London 129, (3357): 625. 0813 P-L-\-G. The Pyoneer 27. 0814 The geographical races of Galago crassicaudatus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: 47-50. 0815 On small mammals from the delta of the Parana. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: y5-KKl. 0816 On the arrangement of the South American rats allied to Oryzomys and Rhipidomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (8)20: 192-m8. 0817 Two new rats of the Rattus confucianus group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. Londtm (8) 20: 198-200. 0818 A new agouti from the Moon Mountains, southern British Guiana Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: 259-261. 0819 A new mink-like Mustela from Java. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (8) 20: 261-262. [With H. C Robinson[. 0820 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XVI. (A)— The tupaias of south Tenasserim [pp. 199-201|. (B)— Notes on MillardiasnA its allies [pp. 2()1-203|. (C)^A new genus of Muridac [pp. 203-205[. (C) — The spiny mouse of Sind [pp. 205-206]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25: 199-206. 0821 Notes on agoutis, with descriptions of new forms Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: 310-313. 0822 A new Heliophobius from north-eastern Rhodesia. .Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: 314-315. 0823 The Spalax of the Grecian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: 315-317. 0824 A new rat of the genus Mylomys from the Upper Nile. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (8) 20: 362 363. 0825 Notes on Georychus and its allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (H) 20: 441—444. 0826 On the allocation of the name Sciurus finlaysoni, Horsfield. Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam 2: 343-346. I9IS 0827 On the striped squirrels hitherto referred to the genus Paraxerus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 1: 33-38. 0828 Two new tuco-tucos from Argentina Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 1: 38-40. M.R.O. THOMAS 71 0829 The nomenclature of the geographical forms of the Panolia deer (Rucenus elili and its relatives). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25: 363-367. ()K30 A selection of lectotypes of Indian mammals, from the co-types described by Hodgson. Gray, Elliot and others. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25: 368-372. 0831 On small mammals from Salta and Jujuy collected by Mr. E. Budin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 1: 186-193. 0X32 The generic division of the hedgehogs. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) I: 193-196. 0833 Four new species of hedgehog. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) I: 230-233. 0834 Some notes on the small sand-foxes of North Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 1: 242-245. 0835 On the arrangement of the small Tenrecidae hitherto referred to Orvzoricles and Microgale. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9)1:302-307. 0836 Moles and mosses. Notes to Exeter Natural History Society. 0837 Notes on Petrodromiis and Rhynchocyon. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 1: 364-370. 0838 A new wild dog from the Bogota Cordillera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) I: 370-371. 0839 New forms of Dendromus, Dipodillus, and Gerbillus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 2: 59-64. 0840 New species of Gerbillus and Taterilliis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 2: 146-151. 0841 A new duiker from Zanzibar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 2: 151-152. 0842 A revised classification of the Otomyinae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9)2:203-211. 0843 The hedgehog of Palestine and Asia Minor. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 2: 21 1-213. 0844 Rule of footpath and road. Our Post Bag' Express and Echo [Exeter local paper], October. 0845 A new species of Eligmodontia from Catamarca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 2: 482—184. 0846 Two new forms of Leggada. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 2: 484-486. 0847 Natural history collections made by the late Major H. S. Toppin. Description of the new monkey. Peru-Bolivia Boundary Commission. Appendix : 9-10, 1 pi. [Repeated from 073 1 [. 0848 North Sea fisheries. The Times. London, December. 1919 0849 On some small mammals from Catamarca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 3: 1 15-1 18. 0850 The white-toothed shrew of Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 3: 199. 0851 On small mammals collected by Senor E. Budin in north-western Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hi.story; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 3: 199-212. 0852 Two new Argentine species of Akodon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 3: 213-214. 0853 Notes on gerbils referred to the genus Meriones. with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 3: 263-273. 0854 On small mammals from "Otro Cerro", north-eastern Rioja, collected by Sr. E. Budin (north-eastern Rioja deleted from copy in Thomas' collected works, Catamarca substituted in manuscript by Thomas). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 3: 489-500. 72 J. E. HILL 0855 Scientific results from tfie Mammal Survey. No. XIX. A synopsis of tfic groups of true mice found witliin the Indian Empire. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 417^21. 0856 A new species of Nesokia from Mesopotamia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 422-t23. 0857 Two new gerbils from Sinai. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London {^) 3: 554-560. 0858 On a small collection of mammals from Lumbo, Mozambique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and (Jeology. London (9) 4: 29-34. 0859 A new species of Euneomys from Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 4: 127-128. 0860 List of mammals from the highlands of Jujuy. north Argentina, collected by Sr. E. Budin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; includint; Zoology, Botany and Geology. Londi>n (9)4: 128-135. 0861 Two new rodents from Tartagal. Salta. N. Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 4: 154-156. 0862 The method of taking the incisive index in rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 4: 289-290, I fig. 0863 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XX. A. — Notes on the genus Cheliones. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 726-727. 0864 Some new mammals from Mesopotamia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 745-749. 0865 The types of the mammals described by M. Fernand Lataste. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 4: 349-354. 1920 0866 Two new species of Syhilagus from Colombia. Annals and .Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 5: 31-33. 0867 A new shrew and two new foxes from Asia Minor and Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 1 19-122. 0868 The generic positions of "Mus" nigricauda. Thomas, and woosnami, Schwann. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 140-142. 0869 A new Taphozous from the Sudan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 142-144. 0870 A new marmoset from the Peruvian Amazons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 144. 0871 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXI. A. — Some new mammals from Baluchistan and northwest India |pp. 933-938]. B. — Two new species of Calomyscus |pp. 938-940], Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 933-940. 0872 Some notes on Babirussa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 185-188. 0873 A further collection of mammals from Jujuy. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 5: 188-196. 0874 Two new Asiatic bats of the genera Tadarida and Dyacopterus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 283-285. 0875 Four new squirrels of the genus Tamiops. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 5: 304-308. 0876 On Neotropical bats of the genus F.ptesicus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 360-367. 0877 On the group of African zorils represented by Ictonyx libyca [altered to tibycus in manuscript by Thomas in his collected works). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 5: 367-369. 0878 New species of Reithrodon, Abrocoma, and Scapleromys from Argentina. A, A further collection from Sr. Budin |pp. 47.3-477]. B. The Scapteromys of the Parana Delta Jpp 477- 478]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 5: 47.3-478. M. R. O. THOMAS 73 1)879 A new fat-tailed gcrbil iRcichyiiromvs) from western Algeria. Ni>vitiile.s Zoologicae 27: 313-314. DHKO Captain Angus Buchanan's Air Expedition. I. On a series of small mammals from Kano. Novilatcs Zoologicae 27: 315-321). DSm Nolorycles in nortfi-wcst Australia. Annals and Magazine of NaUiral Hislory; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 6: 1 1 1-1 13. [With M. A. C. Hinton]. 0882 A new genus of Echimyinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 6: 1 13-1 15. 0883 On mammals from near Tinogasta, Catamarca, collected by Sr. Budin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 6: 116-120. 0884 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXll. A. — A new bat of the genus Rhtnopoma from southeast Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 25. 0885 A new tuco-tuco from Tucuman. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 6: 243-244. 0886 On mammals from the Lower Amazons in the Goeldi Museum, Para. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 6: 266-283. 0887 On small mammals from the Famatina Chain, north-western Rioja. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 6: 417—122. 0888 On mammals from Ceram. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 6: 422—431. 0889 A note on the type locality and geographical races of the gundi {Ctenodactylus gundi Rothm.). Novitates Zoologicae 11: 506-507. 0890 New small mammals from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9)6: 533-537. 0891 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXIII. A new bat of the genus Myotis from Sikkim. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 248-250. 0892 Report on the Mammalia collected by Mr. Edmund Heller during the Peruvian expedition of 1915 under the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington 58: 217-249. pi. 14-15. 1921 0893 Some new insular squirrels of the Callosciurus caniceps - concolor group from Peninsular Siam. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 1 18-123. [With H. C. Robinson). 0894 A new tuco-tuco from Bolivia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 136-137. 0895 Two new Muridae discovered in Paraguay by the Marquis de Wavrin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 177-179. 0896 A new mountain vizcacha {Lagidium) from N.W. Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 179-181 . 0897 A new monkey and a new squirrel from the Middle Mekong, on the eastern frontier of Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hislory; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9)7: 1X1-183. 0898 New Rhipidomys, Akodon, Ctenomys. and Marmosa from the Sierra Santa Barbara. S.E. Jujuy. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9)7: 18.V187. 0899 On a new genus and species of shrew, and some new Muridae from the East-Indian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 7: 243-249. 090(1 [A new vole from Shiraz.] |pp. 58(K581|. In Cheesman, R. E.. Report on a collection of mammals made by Col. J. E. B. Hotson in Shiraz. Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 573-581. 0901 On small mammals from the Kachin Province, northern Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural Hislory Society 27: 499-505. 0902 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXV. (A). On jungle mice from Assam 74 J. F. HILl |pp. 596-598]. (B). The brush-tailed poreupine of Assam |pp. 59X-599|. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 596-599. 0903 New foxes of the genera Cerdocyon and Pseudalopex from northern Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 7: 381-385. 0904 On cavies of the genus Caviclla. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 7; 445—148. 0905 New Sigmodon. Oryzomys. and Echimys from Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 448-450. 0906 Captain Angus Buchanan's Air Expedition. II. On the mammals (other than nmiinants) obtained during the expedition to Air (Asben). Noyitates Zooloi^icae 28: 1 1.^ |With M A. C. Hinton]. 0907 Three new species of Marmosa. with a note on Didclphys waterhintsei. Tomes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 519-523. 0908 The tuco-tuco of San Juan. Argentina Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 523-524. 0909 The Arctonyx of Annam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 7: 524. 0910 Choiropotamus versus Koiropotamus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 34: 135. 0911 The geographical races of Herpestes brachyurus Gray. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 134-136. 0912 A new genus of opossum from southern Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 136-139. 0913 A new bat of the genus Promops from Peru. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. I^ndon (9) 8: 139. 0914 On spiny rats of the Proechimys group from southeastern Brazil. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 140-143. 0915 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. XXVII. The geographical races of Scotomanes ornalus. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 772-773. 0916 The "Huron" of the Argentine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 8: 212-213. 0917 On mammals from the Province of San Juan, western Argentina Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 8: 214-221. 0918 Two new Argentine forms of skunk. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 221-222. 0919 New Cryptotis. Thomasomys. and Oryzor?iys from Colombia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 354-357. 0920 New Pseudochirus and Phascogale from N.W. New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 357-359. 0921 Notes on Australasian rats, with a selection of Icctotypcs of Australasian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: includim; Zoology. Botany and Geoloi;y. London (9) 8: 425-133. 0922 The jerboa of Muscat. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany <;«(/ Gc«/o,i;y. London (9) 8: 44(M41. 0923 A new short-tailed opossum from Brazil. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 441—442. 0924 A new cotton-tail (Sylvilagus) from Colombia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 442—143. 0925 Notes on the species of Notomys. the Australian jerboa-rats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 536-541. 0926 A new hedgehog from the island of Djerba. Tunis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 570. 0927 On a further collection of mammals from Jujuy obtained by Sr. Budui Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 608-617. M. R. O. THOMAS 75 ()92K The masked civets {Pagiima) of western China. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: fil7-618. 0929 On three new AustraMan rats. Annals and Magazine o] Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 61S-622. 09.^0 New Hesperomys and Galea from Bohvia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 622-624. 093 1 Two new species of slow-loris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 8: 627-628. 0932 Scientific results from the Mammal survey. No. XXX. The mungooses of the Herpestes smithii group. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 23-26. 0933 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXXL Two new rats from Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 26-27. 0934 A new Arabian hare. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 28-29. 0935 On a collection of rats and shrews from the Dutch East Indian Islands. Treubia. Buitenzorg 2: 109-114. 1922 0936 On some interesting hedgehogs from the Persian Gulf. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 9: 142-144. 0937 The mammals of the 1921 Mount Everest Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 9: 178-186. [With M. A. C. Hinton). 0938 On some new forms of Ochotona. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 187-193. 0939 Some notes on ferret-badgers. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 193-196. ' 0940 On the systematic arrangement of the marmosets. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 196-199. 0941 A subdivision of the genus Uromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 9: 260-261. 0942 New mammals from New Guinea and neighbouring islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 9: 261-265. 0943 A new marmoset from the Lower Amazons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 9: 265-266. 0944 The generic classification of the Taphozous group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 9: 266-267. 0945 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXXII. (A) New and interesting mammals from the Mishmi Hills |pp. 428-431]. (B) The porcupine of Assam [pp. 431-432]. (C) A new forest badger (Helictis) from the Naga Hills ]p. 432]. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 428-432. 0946 Note on the nomenclature of the northern slow loris. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 433. 0947 The forms of Jaculus jaculus in Egypt and Syria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 295-297. 0948 Two new jerboa-rats (Nolomys). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 315-317. 0949 On the animals known as "Ground-hogs" or "Cane-rats" in Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 389-392. 0950 On mammals collected by C. Keysser in the Saruwaged and Rawlinson Mountains region of N.E. New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: 669-676. 0951 The generic name of the tinlcss-backed porpoise, formerly known as Neomeris phocaenoides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9)9:676-677.' 0952 The bandicoots of Nuyts Archipelago, S. Australia, and of Cape York, N. Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9)9:677-679.' 76 J. E. HIl.L 0953 Two new subspecies of Phalanger orienlalis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 9: (i79-6Xl). 0954 A new rock-wallabv (Petrogale) from the islands off South Austraha. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and (ieology. London (9) 9: 681-683. 0955 A selection of lectotypes of the typical Australian marsupials in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural Historv; including Zoology. Botany and Geo/ogv, London (9) 10: 127-128. 0956 On a new subspecies of Zaglossus. with remarks on other species of the genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 10: 129- 131. [With Lord Rothschild.] 0957 On bandicoots allied to Perameles bougainvillei. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, l.ondon (9) 10: 143-145. 0958 On mammals from New Guinea obtained by the Dutch Scientific Expeditions of recent years. Nova Guinea 13: 723-740. 0959 A new hedgehog from Aden. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 10: 307-308. 0960 On mammals from the Yunnan highlands collected by Mr. George Forrest and presented to the British Museum by Col. Stephenson R. Clarke, D.S.O. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 10: 391-406. 0961 A new species of Mastacomys from a cave in South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 10: 550-55 1 . 0962 A new jird (Meriones) from southern Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 10: 552-553. 0963 A new bat of the genus Miniopterus from northern Australia. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 10: 616-617. 0964 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXXV. Two new rodents from the Mergui Archipelago. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 1067-1068. 1923 0965 The Godman Exploration Fund: List of mammals from north Oueensland collected by Mr T. V. Sherrin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology; Botany and Geo/ogv. London (9) 11: 170-178. 0966 [Exhibition of a new rock-kangaroo from north Oueensland] Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London L3 February, No. 235: 13. 0967 [Exhibition of the skull of a pygmy fruit-bat from Sumatra! Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13 February. No. 235: 14. 0968 On some Oueensland Phalangcridae. [The Taguan flying-phalangcrs pp. 246-249; A new Pseudochirus from N. Oueensland pp. 249-250; The rock Pseudochirus of the Northern Territory p. 250. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 11: 246-250. 0969 On some small mammals, chiefly bats, from the East Indian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 11: 250-255. 0970 [Letter objecting to possible entrance fees to public institutions, notably the British Museum (Natural History), with reasons]. The Times, London 19 March. 0971 Some new African squirrels. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 11: 518-523. 0972 The West African forms of Heliosciurus rufohrachium. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 11: 523-526. 0973 New subspecies of Protoxerus stangeri. the giant squirrel of Equatorial Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) II: 527-529. 0974 The geographical races of l.utreolina crassicaudata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) II: 583-585. 0975 The native rat of Pearson's Islands, S. Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, lA)ndon (9) 11: 601-602. M. R. O. THOMAS 77 0976 New subspecies of Melachinis. Annuls unci Magazine of Natural Hislorv: including /.oology , Botany and Geology. London (9) II: 602-607. 0977 Two new guenons from the Ivory Coast. West Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 11: 607-608. 097S On mammals from the Li-kiang Range, Yunnan, being a further collection obtained by Mr. George Forrest. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geo/ogv, London (9) 11: 655-663. 0979 Exhibition of a new rock kangaroo from north Queensland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 77. 0980 Exhibition of the skull of a pygmy fruit-bat from Sumatra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 178. 0981 On the mammals obtained in Dartur by the I^ynes-Lowe Expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 247-271. [With M. A. C. Hinton). 0982 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXXVIL On tree shrews from the Mergui Archipelago. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 84. 0983 Scientihc results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXXVIIL The mouse deer {Tragulus] of the Mergui Archipelago. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 84-85. 0984 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XXXIX. On the large squirrels of the Ratufa gigantea group. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 85-86. 0985 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XL. A new mouse from Madura, S. India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 87. 0986 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XLI. On the forms contained in the genus Harpiocephalus. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 88-89. 0987 A new short-tailed opossum from Marajo, Amazonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 157. 0988 On the ring-tailed phalanger of South Australia, and a new rat from north Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 158-160. 0989 Gcograhical races of Petaurista alborufus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 171-172. 0990 Notes on some spiny mice (Acomys). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 173-174. 0991 A new Uromys from the Kei Islands. Treubia, Buitenzorg 3: 442. 0992 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XLII. The distribution and geographical races of the Gulandi bush rats (Golunda ellioti). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 373-376. 0993 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. 43. On some squirrels from the Mergui Archipelago. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 376-377. 0994 A new ratel from British East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 340. 0995 Two new mammals from Marajo Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 341-342. 0996 On mammals collected by Captain Shortridgc during the Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition to the Orange River. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 483-499. [With M. A. C, Hinton]. 0997 On some mammals from Simalur Island, west of Sumatra, collected by Mr. E. Jacobson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: .591-593'; 0998 Three new mammals from Peru. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 12: 692-694. 1924 0999 A new pika from the Altai. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology; Botany and Geology, London (9) 13: 16.3-164. 1000 On a fish-eating rat from Bogota. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 13: 164-165. 78 J. E. HILL 1001 New South American small mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 13: 234-237. 1002 Some notes on pacas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including 7.oolog\'. Botany and Geology. London (9) 13; 237-239. 1003 On some Ceylon mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 13: 239-242. 1004 Some new Australasian Muridac. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 13: 296-299. 1005 Starvation for influenza. Truth 5 March. 1006 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XLIV, On a new field mouse from Nepal, with a note on the classification of the genus Apodemus. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 888-S89. 1007 On a collection of mammals made by Mr. Latham Rutter in the Peruvian Amazons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 13: 530-538. 1008 A new Scoteiniis from Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 13: 540. 1009 A new fish-eating rat from Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 13: 541-542. 1010 A new short-tailed opossum from Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 13; 586. 1011 The geographical races of Oryzomys ralticeps. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 14; 143-144. 1012 Nomina conservanda in Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 345- 348. [With 25 other European mammalogists]. 1013 New Callicehus. Conepatus, and Oecomys from Peru. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 14; 286-288. 1014 A new subspecies of Nyctinomus australis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 14: 455-456. 1015 A new genus and species of shrew from Ceylon. Spolia Zevlanica (Ceylon Journal of Science. B), Colombo 13 ( 1 ) ; 93-95. 1016 A new pouched mouse {Phascogale) from northern New South Wales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 14; 528-529. 1017 On learning Braille. The Times, London 21 November. 1925 1018 A new genus of cavy from Catamarca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 15: 418-420. 1019 On mammals collected in 1923 by Captain G. C. Shortridge during the Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition to Southwest Africa. With field notes by the collector. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 221-246. [With M. A. C. Minton). 1020 The Spedan Lewis South American Exploration. — I. On mammals from southern Bolivia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 15: 575-582. 1021 On some Argentine mammals. 1. Two new rodents from Tucuman Province |pp. 582-584.] IL A special genus for Eunemomys fossor [pp. 584-585]. 111. A second species of Spalacopus [pp. 585-586). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 15; 582-586. 1022 A new genus of African Muridac allied to Leggada. Annuls and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 15: 667-669. 1023 A new Australian mouse of the genus Pseudomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology. Ixjndon (9) 15: 669^71 . 1024 On the mammals (other than ruminants) collected by Captain Angus Buchanan during his second Saharan expedition, and presented by him to the National Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology. London (9) 16: 187-197. M. R. O. THOMAS 79 1025 On some of the species of Psammomys found in Algeria, Tunis and Tripoli. Annals ami Magazine of Natural Hislory; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (4) 16: 197-199. 1026 On some mammals from the New Hebrides, Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 16: 240-241. 1027 The mammals obtained by Mr. Herbert Stevens on the Sladen-Godman Expedition to Tonkin. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 495-506. 1028 The garden dormouse of Formentera. Balearic Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 16: 389-?V(i. 1029 The generic position of Gerhillus przewalskii Buchncr. Annals and M'lgazine of Natural History: including Z.oology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 16: 548. 10.^0 The generic name of the finless-backed porpoise. .Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 16: 655. 1926 1031 The generic position of certain African Muridae. hitherto referred to Aethomys and Praomxs. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 174-179. 1032 Some new African Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: \H0-\H4. 1033 Two new rock-wallabies (Pelrogale) discovered by Captain G. W. [sic, G. FL| Wilkins in northern Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany anJGVo%,v, London (9) 17: 184^187. 1034 A ready method of repairing small mammal skulls. Museums Journal, I,ondon 25: 209. 1035 On some small mammals from Madagascar. [The races of Ericulus setosus pp. 250-251 ; Two new species of Microgale pp. 251-252|. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 250-252. 1036 On mammals from Gorgona Island, with the description of a new sloth. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 309-311. 1037 Two new mammals from north Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 311-313. 1038 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — I. On mammals collected by Mr. R. W. Hendee near Lake Junin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 313-318. 1039 The Spedan Lewis South American Exploration. — IL On mammals collected in the Tarija Department, southern Bolivia. Annais and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 318-328.' 1040 On mammals from Ovamboland and the Cuncne River, obtained during Captain Shortridge's third Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition into South-west Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 285-312. 1041 The Spedan Lewis South American Exploration. — III. On mammals collected by Sr. Budin in the Province of Tucuman. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 602-609. 1042 A new Myotis from Ladak. Annals and Magazine of Natural Hislory: including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 609-610. 1043 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — II. On mammals collected by Mr. R. W. Hendee in north Peru between Pacasmayo and Chachapoyas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 610-616. 1044 On various mammals obtained during Capt. Wilkin's expedition in Australia. [On rock- wallabies of the Petrogale penicillata - assimilis group pp. 625-630; Peradorcas pp. 630-631 ; Pseudochirus pp. 631-633; Trichosurus pp. 633-635]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 625-635. 1045 On some mammals from the Middle Amazons. [The giant Amazonian squirrels of the subgenus Urosciurus pp. 63.5-637; The acouchis of the Myoprocta prutti group pp. 637-639]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 17: 635-639. 80 J. E. HILL 1046 Two new subspecies of Callosciuriis quinquestriatus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (*)) 17: 639-641. 1047 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru — III. On mammals collected by Mr. R. W. Hendce in the Chachapoyas region of north Peru. Annals and Magazirw of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 18: 156-167. 1048 The Spedan Lewis South American Exploration. — IV. List of mammals obtained by Sr. Budin on the boundary between Jujuy and Bolivia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botan\ and Geology, London (9) 18: 193-195. 1049 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XLV. Two new pygmy squirrels from the Mergui Archipelago. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31: 23. 1050 A new long-eared bat from central Asia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 18: 306-307. 1051 Two new Australian Muridae. [A new insular rat from Western Australia pp. .WH-309; A rat from Moreton Island, S.E. Queensland pp. .309-310|. .'\nnals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 18: 308-310. 1052 The zoological names Simla, S. satvrus, and Pithecus, and their possible suppression. Nature, London 118 (2968): 411. [With M. A. C. Hinton). 1053 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — IV. On mammals collected by Mr. R. W. Hendee north of Chachopoyas, Province of Amazonas, north Peru. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (9) 18: 345-349. [With J. St. Leger]. 1054 The local races of Dasyrus hallucatus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 18: 543-544. 1055 The Spedan Lewis South American Exploration. — V. Mammals obtained by Senor E. Budin in Neuquen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 18: 635-641 . [With J. St. Leger]. 1927 1056 A remarkable new monkey from Peru, Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 156-157. 1057 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — V. On mammals collected by Mr. R. W. Hendee in the Province of San Martin, N. Peru, mostly at Yurac Yacu. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 361-375. 1058 On the Titi monkeys of the Callicehus torquatus group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 509-510. 1059 The Delacour Exploration of French Indo-China - Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41-58, pis. 1-2. 1060 A selection of lectotypes of American rodents in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 545-554. 1061 A new bat of the genus Myotis from Abyssinia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 554-555. 1062 The octodon of the highlands near Santiago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 556-557. 1063 On a further collection of mammals made by Sr. E. Budin in Neuquen, Patagonia, Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 19: 650-658. 1064 A new subspecies of Bassaricyon from Colombia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Ij.)ndon (9) 20: 80. 1065 On mammals from the (iobabis district, eastern Damaraland, South-Wcst Africa, obtained during Captain Shortridge's fourth Percy Sladcn and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition With field notes by the collector Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 371-398 1066 On further Patagonian mammals from Neuquen and the Rio Colorado collected bv Senor E. Budin. A.— Neuquen [pp. 2(K)-202|. B.— Pichi Mahuida [pp. 202-2()5[. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 20: 199-205. M. R. O. THOMAS 81 1067 Scientific results from the Mammal Survey. No. XLVII. On the generic position of the Afghan jerboa (Alaclagii indicu). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31; 22. 1068 On further monkeys of the Callicehu.s lorquatus group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 20: 2iS7. 1069 On Bornean specimens of the teledu (Mydaus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 20: 288. 1070 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — VL On mammals from the Upper Huallaga and neighbouring highlands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (9) 20: 594~60H. 1071 The late Sir Harry Johnston. Nature. London 120: 339. 1072 A new genus and species of glossophagine bat, with a subdivision of the genus ChoeronycterLs. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (10) 1: 120-123. 1073 A new Thomasomys from the Rio Grande dc Sul. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (10) 1: 154-155. 1074 Some rarities from Abyssinia, with the description of a new mole-rat (Tachyorycles) and a new Arvicanthis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Gratogy. London (10) 1: 302-304. 1075 A special proodont race of water-vole, occurring in Northumbria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (10) 1; 316-318. 1076 The Transvaal race of the common S. -African wild cat. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (10) I: 318-319. 1077 On the East-African mungoosc described as Galeriscus jacksoni. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 1: 344-345. 1078 Size differences in the little "Pichi" armadillos. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 1: 526-527. 1079 The Delacour Exploration of French Indo-China. — Mammals. II. On mammals collected during the winter of 1926-1928. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 139-150. 1080 The generic name Delphax in mammalogy. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London ( 10) I: 623. 1081 A remarkably coloured squirrel from N. Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 2: l(X)-101. 1082 The South Tenasserim race of Paguma leucomystax . Gray. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 2: 101-102. 1083 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — VII. The mammals of the Rio Ucayali. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology. Botany and Geology, London (10) 2: 249-265. 1084 The Godman-Thomas Expedition to Peru. — VIII. On mammals obtained by Mr. R. W. Hendee at Pebas and Iquitos, upper Amazons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London ( 10) 2: 285-294. 1085 Two new S.W. African mungooses. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London ( 10) 2: 408. 1086 A new Ecliimys from eastern Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 2: 409—110. 1087 Note on Sciurus splendidus . Gray. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 2: 590. 1929 1088 The Delacour Exploration of French Indo-China. — Mammals. III. Mammals collected during the winter of 1927-28. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1928): 831-841. i089 A new bandicoot-rat from western Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 3: 205. 1090 A new mole from western Siam. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (10) 3; 206-207. 1091 On mammals from the Kaoko-Veld, South West Africa, obtained during Captain Shortridge's fifth Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 99-1 1 1 . 82 J. E. HILL 1092 The mammals of Senor Budin's Patagonian Expedition. 1927-1928. Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, Botany and Geology. London (10) 4: 35— 15. Reports, brief accounts of papers presented, or of specimens exhibited at the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, and published (1880-1903) in the 'Minutes' and later (1904-1919) in the 'Abstracts" of the Proceedings of the Society, but not including any validly proposed names. 1880 AOl [Description of a new species of Mus. obtained from the island of Ovalau. Fiji] 6 January. A02 [Note on a specimen of Myoxus elegans.] 3 February: 1. A03 [On a collection of mammals brought from Ecuador by Mr. Clarence Buckley! ■* Miiy: 3. A04 [A new species of Reilhrodon obtained in Venezuela by the late Mr. D. Dyson. | 14 December: 2. 1882 A05 [On the African mungooses (Hcrpestinae).| 3 January: I . A06 [Account of a series of rodents from Northern Peru.| 17 January: 1. A07 [Descriptions of a small series of rodents from Damara Land] 21 February. A08 [Account of a small collection of mammals from Durango.] 18 April: 1. A09 [Description of two new species of fruit bats of the genus Pteropus from the Caroline Islands] 19 December: 3. 1885 AlO [Mammals obtained and observed by Mr. [H. H] Johnston.) 3 March: 1 . All [Exhibition of. and remarks upon, a rare burrowing rodent (Heterocephalus glahcri).] If) June: 1. A12 [A description of Heterocephalus phillipsi.] 17 November: 2. 188(i A13 [List of mammals collected by A. O. Hume] 19 January: 2. A14 [On the wallaby commonly known as Lagorchestes fasciatus.] 7 December: 2. 1887 A15 [Mammals obtained by Mr. H. H. Johnston on the Cameroons Mountains] I February: 1. A 16 [Small mammals collected in British Guiana by Mr. W, L. Sclater.] \^ February: 1. A17 [Bats collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands] 15 March: I. 1888 A18 [A collection of mammals obtained by Emm Pasha in central Africa] 17 January: I. A19 [A new genus and species of Muridae obtained by Mr. H. O. Forbes in New Guinea] 17 April: 2. A20 [A collection of small mammals obtained by Mr. William Taylor in Duval County. Texas.] 20 November: 2. A21 [The mammals obtained by Mr. C. M. Woodford during his second expedition to the Solomon Islands.) 4 December: 1. 1889 A22 [A specimen of a new muntjac from Tenasserim.) 5 March: 1 . A23 (Description of a new Bornean monkey] 19 March: I. A24 [Preliminary notes on different species of otter] 2 April: I . A25 [Mammals from Mount Kina Balu obtained by Mr. John Whitehead] Id April: 1. 1891 A26 [A collection of small Mammalia made by Mr. F. J. Jackson. F.Z.S.. in eastern central Africa.) 3 March: 1. M. R.O.THOMAS 83 A27 [Antelopes procured by Mr. T. W. H. Clarke in Somali-Land. J 17 March: 1. A28 [Notes on various species of ungulates. | 16 June: 1. 1892 A29 [Account of the species of the Hyracoidea.] 5 January: 2. A30 [A head of the East African oryx.| 15 March: 1. A3I (Probable identity of Lidth dc Jeude specimens. I 3 May: 1. A32 (Review of antelopes of the genus Cephalophus] 17 May: 2. A33 [On the genus Echinops.] 14 June: 2. A34 [a collection of mammals from Nyassa-land.| 1 November: 2. 1893 A35 [Examples of a Bornean monkey.) 17 January: 1 . A36 [Use of the word "type".) 14 March: 1. A37 [Kcmarks on Nanotragus livingstonianus] 14 March: 1. A38 [a second collection of mammals sent by Mr. H. H. Johnston.) 16 May: 1. 1894 A39 (The skin of a giraffe from Somaliland.) 2(1 February: 1. A40 [Dwarf antelopes of the genus Madoqiui.]. 3 April: I . A41 [Account of the gazelles of Algeria.) 5 June: 1. 1895 A42 [On Piilorious africanus.] 5 February: 1. A43 [Mammals from Aden.| 18 June: 3. [With J. W. Yerbury). 1896 A44 [On further collections from Nyasa-land.) 17 November: I. 1897 A45 )A remarkable partially white antelope of the genus Cerricapra.] 30 November: 1. A46 )On the mammals obtained by Mr. A. Whyte in north Nyasaland. and presented to the British Museum by Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B.) 14 December: 1. 1898 A47 )On some mammals collected by the late Mr Henry Durnford in 1877-8 in Chubut, Patagonia.) 15 March: 2. A48 [Remarks on Sciurus fintaysoni.] 5 April: 1. A49 [Mammals collected by Mr J. D. D. la Touche near Kuatan, N.W. Fokien.) 15 November: 4. A50 jLetter from Senor Ameghino. C.M.Z.S.. on Neomylodon.] 29 November: 7. 1900 A5I [Exhibition of mounted heads of Nile antelopes.) 6 February: 19. 1901 A52 [Exhibition of the skull of a common fox {Cunis vulpcs) with supernumerary upper incisors. ) 15 January: 15. 1903 A53 (Exhibition of a drawing of a skin of a female gazelle with a perfect hair-whorl on the withers.) 17 November: 8. 1904 A54 jExhibition of a new subspecies of Ga;e//o .sofmmfrrmg/.) 19 January: 15. A55 [A collection of mammals from Namaqualand.) 2 February: 19. )With H. Schwann). A56 [A communication on a new subspecies of duiker.) )On behalf of W. Rothschild). 16 February: 21. 84 J. F.. HILL A57 [Exhibition of. and remarks on. the skull of a buffalo] 1 March: 25. A58 [Exhibition of a specimen of a fruit bat.| I March: 25. A59 [Mammals obtained by the late Mr. W G. Doggctt on the Anglo-German Boundary Commission.] 19 April: .''3. A60 [Exhibition of skulls of north Australian rock-wallaby (Peradorcas concinna).] 19 April: 33. A61 [Osteology and systematic position of the rare Malagasy bat Myzopoda uurim.\ 3 May: 37. A62 [Sketch of hind and fawn of Pere David's deer {Elaphunis davidianiLs).] 1 May: 39. A63 [Exhibition of a new species of pig from central Africa.) 15 November: 4. A64 [On the mammals collected by Mr. E. Seimund in Fernando Po.] 15 November: 4. A65 [Exhibition of specimens of a gazelle from Palestine, described as a new species] 13 December: 11. 1906 A66 [A second collection of mammals made in Western Australia for Mr. W. E. Balston.] 13 November, No. 35: 18. A67 [Sixth instalment of the results of the Rudd Exploration of South Africa.] 13 November, No. 35: 18. (With H. Schwann]. A68 [On mammals collected in Korea and Quclpart Island by Mr. Malcolm P Anderson.] 27 November, No. 36: 22. 1907 A69 [Exhibition of a collection of mammals and birds from the islands of Saghalien and Hokkaido, N. Japan, made by Mr. Malcolm P. Anderson] 5 February. No. 39: 5. A70 [List of small mammals which had been obtained in the islands of Saghalien and Hokkaido by Mr. M. P. Anderson for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia] 23 April. No. 44: 24. A71 [Fifth of the series of papers on the mammals collected by Mr. M. P. Anderson during the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia.) 7 May, No. 45: 28. A72 [Mammals collected at Beira by Mr. C. H. B. Grant, being No. VIII of the scries of papers on the Rudd exploration of South Africa.) 12 November, No. 48: 39. 1908 A73 [On mammals obtained in the Shantung Peninsula, N. China, by Mr. M. P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia] 14 January, No. 51 : 1. A74 [On mammals from the islands of Tsu-shima. between Korea and Japan, collected by Mr. M P. Anderson, for the Duke of Bedford's exploration of eastern Asia] 4 Februarv, No. 52: 3. A75 [On mammals collected bv Mr. M. P. Anderson during a trip to the Mongolian Plateau, N.W. of Kalgan.] 18 February, No. 53: 6. A76 [On "Mammals obtained bv Mr. C. H. B. Grant in the Gorongoza Mountains, Portuguese S.E. Africa".] 17 March. No. 55: 12. (With R. C. Wroughton). A77 [On mammals from Inkerman, near Townsville, north Queensland, collected by Mr. W. Stalker.) 3 November, No. 61: 35. 1912 A78 [Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a peculiar Amazonian monkey (CaUimico goeldii).] 26 November, No. 114: 49. 1914 A79 [Report on the mammals collected by the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Evxpedition in Dutch New Guinea.) 7 April, No. 131: 24-25. 1919 A80 [Exhibition of three interesting mammals obtained bv Dr Aders. F.7..S., in Zanzibar.) 21 October, No. 196: 27. M. R. (). THOMAS 85 INDEX TO NAMES PROPOSED BY OLDFIELD THOMAS This Index associates the serial number of each of Thomas' pubhcations as listed in this Bibhography with the page in that paper on which any new name is proposed, and gives details of plates and figures where appropriate. In a few instances where a brief diagnosis precedes the formal description . as for example when a new name is initially diagnosed in a key and described in full later in the paper the pagination for both has been given. uhrocodon, Phyllotis. Ul.tS: 31h abyssinicus. Cephalophiis, (H 10; 415, 427 achates, Tuphozoiis. 0766: 60 achilles. Rhmolophus, 0279: 145 achrotes. Tints inesomelas, 1040: 295 acticola. Gerhillus. i)SW: 147 acticola, Heliosciurus rufobrachium, 0972: 525 acticola. Mits ciirysopiiilus. 05S4: 547 adamsoni. Dremonys rjufigenisj, 0739: 25 adersi. Cepiiaiopiiiis, 0H41: 151 admiralilatum. Pteropus, 0155: 293 adusta. Piiascogaie fiavipes. 0965: 175 adustus, Peramys, 0227: 219 adustus, Pitascolarctos cinereiis, 0968: 246 adventor, Cricetomys gambiamts. 0550: 295 adversus, Urotricitiis taipoides, 0574: 49 aello. Cepitaiotes. 02K2: 216 aemitli. Mus. 0206: 249 Aepomys, 0262: 452 aerosus, Akodon, 0709: 406 aerosus. Uromys. 0888: 428 aerula, Hystrix. 1024: 196 aeta, Epimys, 0657: 591 Aetiiaiodes. 0967: 14; 0969: 251 ; 0980: 178 Aelliaiops. 0967: 14; 0980: 178 Aetiteciiinus. 0832: 194 Aetiiomys. 0773: 477 Aetitosciurus. 0782: 271 affints, Scaptotiyx fitstcaudatiis, 068.^: 514 afgltanus. Microliis (Pitaiomys), 0676: 349 agadiiL\, Euxerus ervlhropiis, 091)6: 6 agag. Gerhiilus. 0408: 33; 0420: 296 agneiia. Kenvmda. 0582: 372 ainu, Micromys speciosiis. 0496: 349 airensis. Acnmys, 0906; 8 airensis, Jacuius /aculus. 0906: 10, 11 ajax, Conepalm. 0703: 137 ai<.lia. Anicaniiits maccuius, 0773: 479 aiiodontius. Oxymycterus, 0927: 615 alacris, Sciurus nibinsnm. 0579: 306 aladdin, Pipistrelim. 0495: 23; 0498: 521 alhalus. Myopierus. 0773: 469 albatus. Paraediinivs dnrsaiis. 0936: 144 aibojubatus. Connociuieies taiirinus. 0107: 388 aiberti, Mviomvs. 0765: 148 albicatus. FMobius. 0680: 401 albigula. Scotoecus, 0614: 544 aibipmrus, Taphozons iortgimamis, 0265: 246 aibiventer, Aiiodon, 0226: 217 aibiventer, Scoteinus sciiiieffeni. 0584: 540 aibofuscus. Scotopiiiius. 0083: 84 aicinous, Mtcrolus (Caryomys), 0666: 50; 0679: 140 aiecto, Aecltalodes, 0967: 14; 0969: 251; 0980: 178 aiccto. Aetltalops. 0967: 14; 0980: 178 aii'clo. Cyllarops. 0702: 134, 135 alexandri, Crossarciius, 0540: 373 aiexandri. Funisciurus. 0540: 376 alexi. Notomys. 0948: 316 algiricus. PsfammomysJ. 0364: 363, 364 algtricus, Putonus ernimeus. 0188: 451 aiienus. Hisliotus. 0783: 276 aiienhyi. Gerhiilus. 0840: 146 aiieni. Bassaricyon. 0004: 397; figs. 1-3, pi. 38 aiieni. Bassaricyon. A03: 3 (nomen nudum) aiiem, Rhogeessa. 0120: 477 aiiigatoris, Macropus robuslus. 0436: 224 aiplionsei. Sciurus. 0531: 442 (nomen novum fi>r Sciurus robertt, 0422: 463) aistotti. Reitiirodon. 0008: 691, figs. 1-4 aistoni, Reitiirodon. A04: 2 (nomen nudum) aisus, Euneorttys micropus. 085 1 : 202 altaina. Ociiolona daurica. 0670: 761 altanum. Myotis. 0647: 3; 0649: 161 allerus. Aliodon. 0854: 496 allicola. Cricetuius, 0811: 455 allicola. Mus. 0063: 408; 0073: 2.34 ailorum. Aiiodon moHLs. 0709: 404 aitorum. Lagurus lagurus. 0680: 401 aiuco. Sciuropterus, 0555: 464 ambrosius, Menones. 0853: 270 amicus. Pliyllotis. 0295: 355 amir. Paraeciiinus, 0833: 232 Ammodiiiu.s. 0452: 102, fig Ammodorcas. (X)93: 207 Ammodorcas. All: 2 (nomen nudum) Ammomys. 0499: 84 amoenus. Aiiodon. 0304: 468 amoenus. DLstochoerus pennatus, 0890: 537 amoenus. Neacomvs spinosus. 0430: 239 amvgdaii. Sciuropterus momonga. 0496: 344 anoA, Uromys. 0528: 72 anatolica. Vulpes vuipes, 0867: 121 Ancltotomys. 0842: 204, 208 ancilla. Myotis myosotis, 0626: 25; 0637: 636 86 J. E. HILL ancilla. Promops. 0764: 62. 63 anderseni. Dobsonia, 0729: 435 anderseni. Rhinolophus. 0453: 156 andersoni. Cricetulus. 0585: 642 andersoni, Epimys, 0647: 4; 0649: 171 andersoni, Evotomys. 0493; 18; 0496; 354 andersoni. Rhynchonax. 0666: 49; 0679: 130 andersoni. Sits. 0602: 441; 0615: 127 andina. Felis pardinoides. 0417: 238 andina. Galiclis. 0422: 462 andina. Pseudalopex culpaeus, 0726: 357 Andinomys. 0351: 24; 0354: 116 andima, Lepits, 0233: 551 andiunt. Phyllotis. 0697: 409 aneryihnis. Sciurus pyrrhopus. 0085: 447. pi. 40 an^elus, Eliomys (Dryomys), 0510: 424 angolae. Aeihechinus. 0833: 230 angolae. Aonyx capensis, 0568: 388 angolae. Thryonomys swinderianiis. 0949: 392 angolensLs. Lepiis. 0447: 420. fig, angonicus. Heliophobius. 0821: 314 angularis. Oxymyxterus. 0609: 237 angulensis, Canis ihous. 0422: 460 angustus. Chelemys. 1063; 654 anguslus, Microtus. 0575: 108 Anisomys. 0427: 4; 0429: 199 ankoliae. Tachyoryctes. 0614: 545 anna. Chiropodomys, 0597: 19; 0607: 390 annaeus. Arclonvx. 0909: 524 atmalium. Sciurus boolhiae. 0484: 309 annamensis. Petaunsta. 0744: 204 anneitens. Rhizomys. (K)89: 304; (M192: 186 annectens. Rhizomys. A26: 1 (nomen nudum) annellaiiis. Callosciurus ferrugineus. 1088: 839 annexus, Sorex. 0536: 859 Anolomys, 0500: 86 ansorgei. Arvicanlhis, 0623: 353 ansorgei. Cricetomys. 0447: 412 ansorgei. Crossarchus. 0617: 195 ansorgei. Dendromus, 0482: 173 ansorgei. Georychus, 0482: 175 ansorgei. Heterocephalus. 0432: 336 ansorgei, I.epus. 0482: 176 ansorgei, Nyctinomus. 0708: 318 Anlhops, 0056: 156; 1M)66: 477 anlillarum. Oryzomys, 0244: 177 antoniae, Funisciurus, 0540: 377 anionii, Ctenomys talarum. 0618: 242 apiculatus, Midas. 0459: 190 apoUinaris. Cerdocyon. 0837: 371 apoHinaris. Sylvilagus. 0866: 31 aqualicus. Scapleromys. 0878: 477 aquilo. Lepus capensis, 0550: 297 aquilo. Meriones erythroums, 0680: 395 aquilo, Steatomys, 0981: 264 aquilus, Notomys, 0925: 540 arahica. Vttlpes vulpes. 0389: 489 arabicus. Papio. 0275: 7; 0278: 929; 0289: 96 arabnon. Dipoddlus. 0839; 61 arabium. Rhinopoma cystops. 0716: 89 arcium. Uromys. 0718: 214 arcturus, Microtus. 0680: 398 ardens, Arvicanlhis pulchellus, 0634: 313 arenalis, Oryzomys. 0724: 571 arenarius. Phyllotis. 0359: 224 arequipae. Conepatus, 0304: 466 arequipae. Viscaccia. 0541: 442 ar^f. Nycteris. 0426: 633 argens, Potomogale velox, 0773; 470 argentinius. Scit4rus (Mesosciurits). 0927: 609 argentintts, Dasypterus ega. 0336: 247 argentinus, Eptesicus. 0876; 365 ar gurus, Hesperomys carillus, 0860: 130 argurus, MicrotiLs (Alticola). 0596: 264 argurus. Mus. 0074: 433. fig. argynnis. Casinycteris, 0630: 111 rtnV/u/fl. Crocidura, (t981: 252 aridulus. Grammomys. 0981: 268 rtr/>/. Pipistrellus. 0453: 157 ar/V/. Plecolus. 0647: 3; 0649: 160 armenius. Microtus terrestris. 0552; 201 armillatus. Petauroides volans. 0968: 248 arrogans. Sienomys. 0942: 263; 0958: 728 aruma. Ph\'lloslomu.s hastalus. 1(K)1:236 Ascopharynx. 0284: 223 asper. Limnomys. 0505: 326 asper. Sorex. 0735: 565 aspera. Phascogale murex. 0717: 211; 0737: 324 assamcnsts. Atherurus. 0902: 598 athcnc, Sciuropicrus russicus. 0551: 409 atkmsom. Hclogale. 0231: 378 atlantis. Elcphaniulus rozeti. 0723: 587 (//raw. Pteralopex. 0056: 155; (K)66: 475. pL 20. fig. 3, pL 21. figs. 4-7 atratus. Nyctinomus ausiralis. 1014:456 (/mVt;. .Sh.5. 0677: 13; 0687: 391. 393 auceps. Kerodon, 0661: 255 auceps. Meriones. 0585: 640 audax. Tachyoryctes. 0627: 421 auramii, Lepus saxatilis, 0996: 497 aurex. Tylonycteris, 0749: 228 auratus. Mungos. 0584: 543 aurillus. Oryzomys (Microryzomys). 0809: 1 ; 0892: 228. pi. 14. fig. 2 auritiis. Pseudomys, 0642: 607 aunventer, Oryzomys. 0276: 379 aurora. Cercopithecus leucampyx. 0621: 485 australis. Chrotoptvnvi auritus. 0484: 308 australis. Cremnomys, 0776: 242 australis. Heterornys, 0314; 194 australis. Melomys. 1004: 298 australis. Scoteinus schlieffeni, 0584: 539. 540 austrinus. Raltiis culmorum. 0921: 427 austrinus. Rhipidomys, 0898: 183 M. R. O. THOMAS 87 avarillus. Mus. 11584: 547 avarus. Pseudochirtui. 0505: 32^ aviator. Nyclalus. Ilh63: 380 avunculus. Micro.u'iuru.s. 0736: 574 avunculus. Mus, 0447: 417 azarae. Cienomys. 0399: 228; 0417: 243 azarica. Pseudalopex, 072ft: 360 azaricus. Metachirus opossum. 0976: 604 azoreum. Pterygistes. 0331: 33 azlecus. Philander laniger. 0721: 358. 359 aztecus. Polos flavus, 0361: 266, 268 bahylonicus. Taphozous kachhensis, 0766: 58 hahu. Pipislrelliis. 0766: 30 hacchanle. Akodon. 0350: 138 bacchante. Mus hvpoxanthus. 0421: 342 hadiatus, Petaurisia lylei. 1027: 501 hadius. Tachyoryctes ruddi. 0614: 546 baeodon. Mus. 0170: 452. 458 baeticus. Sus scrofa. 0677: 14; 0687: 391 . 393 baileyi. Myospalax. 0669: 727 baileyi. Soriculus. 0728: 683 bailwardi. Calomyscus. 0495: 23; 0498: 524, pi. 16 bailwardi. Nesokia. 0552: 199 bakeri. Pteropus. 1026: 240 balearica, Genetta genetla. 0376: 162 haliensis. Ralufa hkolor. 0714: 505 halina, Tupaia javanica, 0714: 505 hulnearuin. Holochiliis. 0531: 447 balneator. Oryzomys. 0293: 273 balsloni. Murina. 0582: 370 balstom. Scoleinus. 0513: 2; 0527: 472 ballina. Ochotona roylei, 0938: 188 baluchi. Calomyscus. 0871: 939 haluensis. Crocidura (Croc), 0265: 247 baluensis. Mus. 0170: 454, 458 bandarum. Funisciurus anervthrus. 0765: 146 bandiculus. Ratlus. 0942: 262; 0958: 728 bangueyae. Sciurus lowi, 0624: 387 baptistae, Meriones persicits. 087 1 : 934 barbarus, Ctenomys budini. 0898: 185 barnesi. Molossus. 0478: 585 barrowensis. Perameles. 0343: 396 barton!. Acanthoglossus bruijnii. 0554: 294 bartoni. Sciurus sladeni. 0744; 197, 199 basUUcus. Pteropus. 0756: 387 bat'is. Sorex, 0706: 214 Batomys. 0197: 162 ballyi. Didelphis marsupialis. 0394: 137 Beamys. 0605: 107 bealae, Peromyscus. 0409: 485 beatrix, Glauconycteris. 0337: 256 beatrix. Marmosa, 0638: 502 beatus, Akodon. 0851: 204 beatus, Funisciurus auriculatus. 0617: 196 beauforti. Pseudochirus. 0958: 734 bechuanae, Isomys plumilioj, 0122: 551 bcdfordi. Budorcas. 0653: 27; 0664: 693, pi, 21 bedfordi. Capreolus. 0572: 32; 0585: 645. pi, 32 bedfordi. Macropus. 0285: 23; 0290: 112 bedfordi. Muslela melampus. 0481: 10; 0491: 183; 0496: .M3, pi. 9 bedfordi. Ochotona. 0592: 45; 0594: 981 bedfordi. Proedromys. 0647: 4; 0649: 177 bedfordi. Scotonycteris. 0439: 14; 0455: 372; 0468: 187, pi. 13 bedfordiae. Cricelidus. 0592: 45; 0594: 974 hedfordiae. Evotomys. 0493: 18; 0496: 338 bedfordiae. Sorex. 0647: 3; 0649: 164 bedouin. Scoteinus schlieffeni. 0584: 540 beirae. Georychus. 0559: 780 bella, Leggada. 0616: 87 bella. Phascogale. 0436: 229 bclhssima, Kerivoula picta. 0510: 423 bellona. Tomeutes mearsi. 0788: 419, 420 Belomys. 0560: 2 belone. Sciuropterus (Hylopetes). 0579: 305 benefactus, Akodon. 0852: 214 benevolens. Rhipidomys. 0318: 369 bentleyae. Mus (Dasymys), 0113: 179 bergi, Ctenomys, 0360: 241 berlepsclui. Akodon, 0253: 280 bernieri. Lagorchestes hirsutus. 0534: 775 bettoni, Genetta, 0365: 365 bettoni. Procavia. 0444: 23; 0457: 463 bhotia. DIremomysl l/okriahj. 0788: 417 bicolor. Coelomys. 0766: 49 bicolor. Colomys. 0691: 42 bicolor. Kerivoula. 0460: 199 bicolor. Nyctophilus microtis, 0758: 498 bidens, Corvira. 0769: 311 bifax. Nyctophilus. 0758: 496 biologiae. Galictis barbara. 0280; 1 46 birmanicus. Herpestes auropunctatus. 0031: 84:0032: 58 blackleri. Meriones. 04U: 189 blancalis, Paraechinus deserti, 0926: 570 bUmfordi. C>iopfm«, (X)91; 884; 0121: 921, pi. 11, figs. 1-2 bUmfordi. Mus, 0010: 24 blarina. Myosorex. 0519: 139 Blarinella. 0649: 166 B/flrOT(»nvs,0208: 310 bocagei, Herpestes, 0482: 170 bocagei, Mus, 0447: 416 bocagei, Steatomys, 01 16: 264 boeops, Oryzomys, 0273: 152 bogotensis, Acodon. 0201 : 369 boliviae. Dasyproclu variegata, 0821: 312 boliviae. Dasypus sexcinctus. 0549: 165. 166 boliviae. Eligmondontia callosa, 0336: 253 boliviae. Oryzomys, 0342: 536 boltvianus, Proechirnys, 0342; 537 Bolomys. ()8(K): 337, 339 88 J. E. HILL bombax. Golunda ellioti, 1)992: 375 bombimis. M\otis natteren. 0496: 337 bomhyx. Rhof^eessa, 1)724: 569 bonaria. Lfulreolinaj cfrassicaudataj. 0974: 585 bonhoiei. Gerbillus. 0857: 560 bontamts. Rattus, 0899: 245 boranus. Macroscelides. 0308: 4; 0310: 802 borneanus. Pleromyscus, 0560: 7 borneoensis. Sciuroptents genibarhis. 0579; 304 bottegi, Crocidura (Cr.). 0247: 677 bovalli. Rhipidumys. 0M5: 114 boxi. Lagidium. 0896: 180 bovdi. Funisciuriis attriculatus. 0617: 196 Brachiones. 1029: 548 bracteator. Macropus robuslus. 0659: 609 brahma, Epimys. 0745: 232 brelichi. Rhinopiihecus. 0404: 29; 0418: 224. pi. 21 breviceps, Pteropiis. 0021: 756, pi. 55 breviceps. Pteropits. A09: 3 (nomen nudum) bricenii. Mazama. 0566: 349 briganlium. Anicola amphibiiis, 1075: 318 bhghn. Gazella granli. 0308: 4; 0310; 805 hrockmani, Dipodillus. 0627: 420 brockmani. Mus, 0524: 298 brockmani. Rhinolophns, 0617: 192 brookei. Cepfwlophus. 0402: 290 brookei. Sciurus. 0103: 253; 0105: 225. pi. 19. fig. 6 brooksi, Dyacopterus, 0874: 284 broomi, Gerbillus paeba. 0839: 64 broomi. Otomys. 0386: 313 brucei. Rucervtts thamin. 0829: 366 bruihi.Marmosa. 0907: 519 bruchiLS, Praomys collinus. 1019: 238 brunello. CalUcebus personatus, 0724; 568 brimella,Helogale. 1040: 293 brunetla. Tupaia belangeri, 0982: 84 brunnea. Galera barbara, 031 1: 180 bnmnea, Helogale. 0515: 10; 0529: 581 brunni'its. Lophuromys aquihis, 0525: 305 brunneus, Vesperugo (Vesperus), (K)06: 165. tig. brunneus. Zygodontomys, 0266: 269 buchanani, Cricetonns. (1906: 7 buchanani. DesmoddlisciLs, 0880: 317 buchanani. Mellivora. 1024: 190 buchanani. Procavia. 0906: 13 btichneri, Menones, 0596: 262 budini. Abrocoma. 0878: 475 budini, Conepalus, 0854; 490 budini. Ctenomys. 0703: 141 fru^im/. Hypsimys, 0831: 190 ftM(/(>». M(;rmr«fl. 0873: 195 />u/o. Leggada. 0519: 145 />H//er/. Geomys. 0114; 196 fru//cr/. Heteromys. 0133: 330 hunguranensis. Sciurus bicolor, 0167: 658 Runolagus. 1091: 109 Bunomys, 0640: 508 buntmgi. Thamnomys, 0650: 381 burnesi, Molossus, 0478: 584 (lapsus tor barnesi, see p. 585) burneyi. Sorex. 0759: 499 ^HrroK-j;/. Alherurus. 0362; 269 burioni, Mus, 0113: 182 (preoccupied, see 0151: 205, where renamed) buriom, Oiomys. 0842: 210 /JHM/. .V/fm^«c5. 0389: 488 bulleri, Crocidura, 0662: 375 bulleri. Jaculus jaculus. (1947: 296 butleri. Gazella snemmerringi. (M33: 1 ; 0448: 4, fig. buxtoni. Nesokui. 0856: 422 cabrerae. Microtus. 0516: 576 cachinus. Microlits (Eothenotnys). 0901: 5(W cadornae. Pipislrellus. 0788: 415 caecias. Pseudochirus corinnae. 0950: 674 Caenolesles, 0201: 367; 0204: 870. pi. 50. tigs. 1-9 caenosus. Crernmomys medius. 0776: 241 caesia. Vulpes ruppclli. 0906: 5 calamorum. Microtus. 0378: 167 calarius, Aelhom\s namaquensis, 1032: 184 caldaltts. Herpesles caiLxi, 1065: 374 calidior. Arvicanthis dorsalis, 0584: 545 calidior. Dremomys pernyi, 0785: 394 calidwr. Proechimys semispinosus, 0661: 254 calidior, Uromys stalken. 0652: 387; 0737: 321 calidus. Gerbillus. 0839: 63 calidus. Hesperomys venuslus, 0779: 182 callewaerti. Hvlenomys. 1022: 668 Calluebus, 0422:456 calloiLS. Oryx. 0104: 195 callous. Orvx, A30: 1 (nomen nudum) Calomyscus, (W95: 23; (W98: 524 calurus. Conepalus. 0854: 491 calurus, Gerbillus. (K)98: 76 campbelli, Cricetulus. 0473: 322 canarius. Sylvdagus. 0705: 213 canaster. Heliosciurus bongensis. 0981: 256 candace. Nasua. 0694: 228 (■«Hem. Herpestes smithii. 0932: 24, 25 cflnc.?cf^u. Dactylomys dactylinus. 0671: 87 caHe.vcc'm. Georychus capensis. 0518: 165 fflne.vcenj. Murina. 0969: 254 (■ane.5(rn.s. Peradorcas concinna, 0608: 198 cancvceav, Saccopteryx. 0318: 366 caniculus. Erinaceus algirus. 0765: 152 (unnomvA. 0763: 57 canopus, Eepus. 0906: 12 canonis. Epimvs confucianus. 0664: 690 cansulus. Sorex. (►696: 398 ajn«r/. Rhinolophus. 0597: 18; 0607: 378 capitis, ParaxeriLS jacksoni. 0605: 105 capricornis. Raphiceros neumanni, 0529: 584 capsalis. Sylvilagus. 0705: 213 caracciolae. Vampyrops. (X)76: 167, figs. 1-3 M. R. O. THOMAS 89 airacolus, Oryzomys, 0741: 242 carbo, Presbytis ohscura. 0613: ?34 careyi, Callosciurus sladeni. 0776: 225.233 carilla, Eligmodontta, 0350: 133 canllus. Mas. 0447:418 carissima, Myotis (Leuconoe). 0445: 383 tarmelitae, Phalanger. 0261: 5 caroli, Pseudochirus. 0920: 357 Carpomys, 0197: 161 carruthersi, CileUns. 0690: 393 carruthersi, Funisciunis. 0519: 140 canuthersi, Microtus (Pitymys). 0596: 263 Cflrv(3W.v.s\ (t647: 4; 0649: 175 Casinycleris, 0630: 111 caspica. Crocidura russula, 0552: 197 casta. Marmosa mills, 0655: 516 castaneus. Cephalophns dorsalts. 01 10: 421 caslaneus. Pelaurisla alboruftis. 0989: 172 castilianus. Sus scrofa, 0677: 13; 0687: 391.392 castas, Sciun4s. 0410: 488 catellus, Cyclopes didactylus. 1084:293 calellus. Eurozygomalornys, 0790: 301 cathermae. Oecomys. 0609: 234 catrinae. Dasyprocta azarae, 0821: 311 caucae. Marmosa. 02K3: 221 caucinus. Pronolagus. 1091: 109 caudalus. Pronolagus guereza. 0026: 219, pi. 12 caudatiis, Meriom's lihvcus. 0853: 267 caurina. Dorcopsis hageni. 0942: 264; 0958: 732 caurinits, Eplesicus pumilus. 0730: 439 caurinus. HeUoscmrus rufohrachium. 0972: 523 caurinus, Hvdromvs chrvsogasler. 0608: 197 caurinus. IchthvoniYs. 1009: 541 caurinus, Mungos, 1032: 182 caurinus. Nolorvctes. 08S1: 111 caurinus, Reilhrodon. 0878: 473 caurinus. Scotozous dormeri. 0766: 33 caurinus. Steaiotnvs, 0675: 271 caurinus. Uromys, W?>5: 112 caurinus. Zaedyus picliiy. 1078: 526 cavendishii. Madoqua, 0256: 1;0257: 278 cayennae. Dasyprocta lucifer. 0410: 492 cayllomae. Akodon pukhernmiLS, 0311: 185 caymanum. Myoprocla pralti. 1045: 638 cearanus. Rhipidomvs. 0638: 501 cecilii, Peromyscus. 0409: 486 celaeno. Nyctimene. 0942: 262; 0958: 724 Celaenomys, 0263: 390 celalus. Micromys geisha, 0496: 359 centralis, Arctomys. 0596: 260 centralis, Atherura. 0173: 89 centralis. Ccnlronycterts, 0699: 638 centralis. Coendou. 0428: 5; 0430: 240 centralis. Diphylla, 0406: 378 centralis, Echmomys. 0208: 312 centralis, EUgmodontia griseoflavus, 0359: 240 centralis, Jaculus jaculus. 0906: 11 centralis. Lepus capensis. 0421: 344 centralis. Protnops. 0764: 62 centralis, Saccoplervx bilineata. 0441: 251 centralis, Smmthopsis crassicaudata. 0390: 492 centralis. Sorex. 0670: 758 centralis, Urotrichus talpoides. 0574: 50 centricola. Dolichotis magellamcus. 0360: 242 centricola, Sciurus stangen. 0524: 295, 297 ceramicus, Stenomys, 0888: 425 cerastes. Molossus, 0340: 437, 440 cervinus. Melornys robustus, 0286: 23; 0291: 113 chacarius. Holocfulus. 0531: 446 chadensis, Lepus. 0540: 384 chadensis. Xerus ervthropiis, 0474: 387 Chakomys. 0800: 337, 338 chapadae. Sylvilagus minensis. 0430: 241 chapmani. Orvzomvs. 0244: 179 charon. Meriones, 0853: 269 cheesmam, Gerbillus. 0864: 748 cheesmani, Lepus otnanensis, 0933: 28 cheesrnani, Tachyorycies, 1074: 302 Chelemys, 0417: 242 Chelemyscus. 1021: 585 cherriei. Echimys, 0277: 381 chihliensis, Rattus confucianus. 0817: 199 /u(/r^. OfMomw. 0883: 119 colurnus, MicrotiLs (Eoihenomys) melanogaster, 0646: 209 comw. Ga/ea. 0860: 134 cometes. Thamnomys. 0584: 549 cona/uA. /?am«. 0988: 159 concinniLS, DendromiLS (Poemys). 1040; 299 concinniis, Sciurus. 0063: 407 concisa. Mellivora, 0540: 376 congicus, Choeromys harrisoni, 0949: 390 congicus, Chrysochloris, 0616: 84 congictis, Scutisorex, 0773: 470 congicus, Talerdlus, 0765: 147 constantiae. Marmosa, 0428: 5; 0430: 243 consularis. Mfenetesf bferdmoreij, 0739: 24. 25 conlinenlis. Phodotes tumidirostris. 0655: 513 continentis. Ptilocercus lowi. 0628: 426 conlinenlis. Symphalangus syndactyliLs. 0579: 301 conlumax, Callosciurus fiavimanus, 1059:52 coolidgei, Peromyscus leucopus. 0243: 45 coppingeri, Hesperomys iCalomys), (KX)9: 4. figs. 1-2 cor. Emballonura. 0747: 139 coracius. Rallus assimilis, 0965: 173 coraginis. Golunda ellioti, 0992: 375 cordovensis. Hesperomys, 0779: 184 coreae. Apodemus agrarius. 0573: 8 coreae, Crocidura (Cfrociduraj). 0536: 860 coreana, Mogera wogera, 0555: 463 coreanus. Lepus sinensis. 0101: 146 corinnae, Pseudochirus, 0224; 142; 0234: 619, pi. 2 coronalus, Pseudochirus albertisi, 0224: 144 corriae, Amhlysomus. 0477: 5; 0483; 267. pi. 16. figs. 3a-c; 0489: 57 cortensis, Hesperomys musculinus. 0873: 190 Corvira. 0769: 310 cottoni, Ourehui, 0562: 178 couesi. Hesperomys. 0138: 403 coxi, Pipistrellus, 0864: 747 crassa. Carponycleris. 0192: 163 crassulus, Pipistrellus, 0440: 206 cra.ssus. Lagoslomiis, 0618: 246 Crateromys. 0197: 163 crawshayi. Procavia (Oendrohyrax), 0287: 25; 0292: 178 creaghi. Rhinolophus. 0206: 244 rr(rc«"A(M.v. 0811:456 crossei, Crocidura iCr.). 0195: 53 Crossogale. 0899: 243; 0935: 113 Cros.somys. 0548: 70 crolalis. Callosciurus erylhraeus. 0776: 225. 239 cruceri. Akodon pulcherrimus. 0311: 186 crucialis. Meiachirus opossum. 0976: 604 cruciger. Semnopithecus. 0119: 476 crucina. Felis pajeros, 0336: 247 rrwrn/Ji. Diomys. 0820: 204 C>«nomy.v. 0220: 1; 0263: 393 culex. Pipistrellus, 0654: 458 cH/morwm. Mils. 0593: 790 culpaeola, Pseudalopex. 0726: 359 culluratus. RalULS. 0817: 198 cumananus. Rhipidomys venezueiae, 0293: 271 cumanicus, Lepus. 0233: 552 cunciator, Cricetomys gambianus, 0581; 171 M. R. O. THOMAS 91 cunealis. Pelriimys. 1(140: 3(17 cuninghamei, Crocidttra. 0461: 237, 240 cuninghamei, Mylomys, 0523: 225 cuppedius, Stcatomys, 0880: 318 cupreolus, Myotis hocagel. 0447: 407 cupreiis, Pseudochirus, 0224: 145 cuprosa, Kerivoula, 0691: 41 currentium, Molossiis ohscurus, 0340: 438 currentium, Reithrodott typicus, 0878: 475 curryi, Oryclolagus crassicaudariis. 0382: 245; 0483: pi. 16, fig. 5 ctinala. Bandicola savilei. 1084: 205 ctiscinits, Cebiis flavescens. 0311: 179 citscinus, Sciurus aestuans. 0271: 40 cttsctis. Viscaccia. 0541: 443 custos. Microtus (Anwliomys). 0683: 517 Cyclops, PeronymiLs, 1007: 531 Cynomops. 0873: 189 cypseliniis, Diaemus voungi, 1084: 288 Cyromys. 0640: 507 cyslops, Rhtnopoma, 0412: 496 Cvttarops. 1)702: 134 dahbenei. Eiimops, 0731: 480 dabhenei. Eimeomys. 0859: 127 Dacnomys. 0788: 404 dactytiniis. CaUosciurus flavimantis. 1059: 52 Dactylimax. (1643: 610 daedahis. Nyctopliilus, 0758: 498 daemon, Procavia. 0617: 199 daemon, Tachyoryctes, 0614: 545 daemonellus, Dasyurus, 0466: 402 dii/((-ni. Mi«. 0113: 181 daman-nsis, Scolophihis, 0503: 175 dammermam, Pseudochirus. 0942: 264; 0958: 736 dammermam, Ratlus, 0899: 247; 0935: 110 dandoU-na. Rautfu macroura, 0766: 36 daphaenodon, Sorex, 0551: 407 daphne. Thomasomvs, 0809: 2; 0892: 235, pi. 15, fig. 1 darfurea, Crocidura. 0981: 251 darlingi. Georychus, 02(K): 239 darimouihi. Otomys. 0519: 141 darwint. Dusicyon. 0726: 352 daucinus. Heliosciurus undulatus. 0605: 101 d«i7(//, Rhizomys. 0647: 5; 0649: 179 davisnni. Promops. 0913: 139 davisom. Sciuropterus. 0031: 84; 0032: 74 davisoni. Scmropu-rus. A13: 2 (nomen nudum) deceplor. Hypsimys. 0927: 613 decoratus.MjenelesI h/erdmoreil. 0739: 24 deeumanm. Echimys. 0276: 282 degem, Oiomys. 0395: 311 delacouri. Hapalomys. 1059: 55 delamerci. Macroscehdes. 0333: 155, foDtnolc delator. Oxymclerus. 0410: 489 deleclorum. Epimys, 0635: 430 Delomys. 0816: 196 Dellamys, 0815: 98 dellHola, Oryzomys. 0815: 96 dellicus. Eumops. 0995: 341 demerarae, Marmosa ctnerea. 0484: 313 demissa. Galea holiviensis. 0930: 623 demisstt. Tupaia ferrugmea. 0451: 723 demonstrator. Nyctinomus. 0425: 504 denniae. Mus. 0519: 144 <;«!». Cercopithecus. 0538: 1:0545: 2, pi. 1 dcn/i. Otomys. 0519: 142 (fcvir/. Rhinolophiis. 0466: 386 Deamys. 0058: 130 Depanycleris. 0886: 271 Dephomys. 1031: 177 deserii. Leggada. 0616: 90 deserti. Macroscehdes rozeli. 0333: 155, footnote deserii. Pipistrellus. 0367: 4 Desmonys. 0619: 284 dichrura. Tatera. 0765: 147 dictator, Arctonyx, 0628: 424 dimidiatus, Nectomys, 0478: 586 diniinutus. Isomys purnilio. 0122: 551 dirnissus. Eptesicus. 0795: 1 f/i>if///i, MyoHs, 0391: 493 Diomys, 0820: 203 Diplogale. 0678: 18; 0688: 499 discolor. Thamnomys. 0619: 283 dissonus. Protoxerus slangeri. 0973: 527 diversus. Funamhulus insignis. 0265: 248 dtvtnorum. Otomys. 0634: 311 dobsoni. Microgale. 0024: 337 dobsoni. Rhinolophus. 0153: 156, footnote dodsoni. Dipodilhis. 0367: 7 doggetli. Poecilogale. 0444: 22; 0457: 460 r. 0605: 103 elegans, Leptomvs. 0234: 610 elegans. Saccoslomus. 0219: 1; 0221: 431; 0242: 937 eleganlulus. Phylhlis. 0703: 139 Elephanlulus. 0515; 10; 0529: 577 eleusis. MicroHis (Eothenomys) melanogasler i)()(r6: 50; 0679: 139 eleusis. Thomasomys ischyrids. 1043:614 elgonis. Cricetomys gartibianus. t)617: 198 elgonis, Thamnomys surdasler. 0619: 282 emerila, Felis pardinoides, 0692: 44 emeritus, Thomasomys taniger. 0803; 479 fmi//ac. Caliicebus. 0658: 606 fm/7/ae. /■>/«. 0726: 348 emdiae. Hapale. 0886: 269 emiliae. I.onchothrix, 0882: 114 emdiae. Marmosa. 06(X): 379 emdiae. Pcramvs. (1671: 89 emdiae. Pelaurdlus. 0560: 8 emdiantLS, Ctenomys, 1055: 637 (•mm/. Dendrohyrax. (M)53: 440; 0054: 15. pi. 2 emm/. Dendrohyrax. A 18: 1 (nomcn nudum) cm/>i/. GerbdUis. (K)98: 78 emirita. Lulra, 0568; 390 emissus. Heliosciurus rufobraehium. 0971; 520 emuhus. Conepatus suffocans. 1063:651 Eomops. 0492: 572 EptxeriLs. 0603: 469, 472 epsdanus. Myospalax. 0673: 94 equalons. RIarina. 0681: 409: equatoris. Rhipidomys. 0769: 312 esmeraldum. Nectomys, 0336: 250 c.vav. Hvdromvs, 0505; 324 EupelauriLs. (H)60: 257 euphralica. Alacfaga. 0013; 15 Euxerus. 0603: 469, 473 cvd, Cyclopes didactylus. 0383: 250 cvfl. Microlus {Caromysf. 0647: 4; t)649: 175 era. Peromyscus. 0243: 44 ^vaf. Reithrodon. 1063: 652 everesti. Phaiomys. 0937: 182 (•vert-m. HW/ca?. 0184: 331 evereni. .Sciuropierus. 0179: 27 everelti. Sciurtis. (XJ86: 71 evereni. Semnopithecus, 0123: 582, pi. 41 evereni. Tupaia, 0103: 250 excelsior. Epimys, 0647: 4; 0649: 170 c.t/7t5. Dasyurus halhtcatus. 0595: 152 exoneranis. Dendromus (Poemys). 0839; 59 fagani. Lepus. 0395: 315 falabae. Scoloecus, 0771: 447 /fl//fl.x. Cnmomyj. 0220: 1; 0263; 394, pi. 33. fig. 1. pi. 35, figs. 5-6 /fl//fl;c. Tatcra. 0444: 22; 0457: 461 famatina. Abrocomu. 0887: 419 famalinae. Lagidium. 0887: 421 famuUis. Gerbillus (" Hendacapleura" ), 0193: 551 faroulti. Pachyuromys duprasi. (W79: 313 faustus. Perodicticus. 0635: 426 favonicus. Funambuliis palmarum. 0766: 38, 39 favonicus, Jaculus jacidiLs. 0713: 483 favonicus, Myttlis beclisleini. 0522: 220 /('at'. CVnw//w. 0068; 95; 0069: 92; 0121; 945. pi, 10 /cat'. Cervulus. A22: 1 (nomcn nudum) /cac. Epimvs mackenziei. (1788; 410, 412 feae. Harpiocephalus. CKWl: 884; 0121: 926 fecundus. tiesperomvs. 1039: 321 federatus. Mvolvi peyloni. 0795: 3 feliceus, Ranus, 0888: 423 felicia, Dasyprocta. 0821: 310 fellii. Rauifa. i)17f): 226 ferculinus. Miis. 0390: 491 ferghanae. Putorius ermineus. 0188; 452 fergussoni. Apodemus. 0647: 4; (►649: 172 ferrugineus. Deomys. {M)58: 130. pi. 5. tigs 1-10 ferrugineus. Oryzomvs. 0169: 352 fervidiLs. Philander laniger. 0721: 358. 359 jervidiL\. Rhipidomys venezuelae. 0450: 34 M. R. O. THOMAS 93 fesrimi. Cavia Isclniitii. 1(J70: hll4 fidelis. r.plesuus. 0X76: 366 jiammarum. Reilhrodon cunicuhndes, 0697: 41 1 ftummifer, Sciurus, 0450: 33 flavescens. Dasyprocta rubrata. 0266: 274 flaviceps. Hapale. 0417: 240 flavicans, Orvzomys, 0169: 351 flavnlior. Phyllotis holiviemis. 0383: 248 fiiividttla. Crocidura flavescens. 0483: 261 flavidits. Acomys. 0820: 205 fiavimts, Funisciurus congicus, U447: 411 flora. Kerivoida. 11730: 441 flormm. Murma, 0582: 371 flowen. Gerbillus. 0857: 559 fochi. Ctemimys. 0849: 117 fodax. Clenomys. (1618: 243 fontanus. Myospalax. 0673: 93 forhesi, Chiriiromys. 0059: 238, 239. figs. 1-2 forhesi. Chiriiromys. A19: 2 (nomen nudum) forbesi. Pseudocheirus. (1040: 146 formosits. Lepus. 0569: 449 Fornarma. 0432: 336 forresli. Mm, 0514: 6; 0528: 538, pi. 37, fig. 1 forresti. Ocholona. 11978: 662 forresti. Rupesles. 0960: 398, 399 forresti. Tamiops rmiritimtts, 0875: 305 fors, Leggada. (1614: 548; 0621: 506 foriior. Olomys lypus. 0525; 302 fortis. Dasyiirits geojfroyi, 0527: 476 fossa. Reilhrodon. 0276: 280 fossor. Geoxus. 0851: 208 fosteri. Molossiis. 0340: 437. 438 fosleri. Monodelphis. 1010: 586 fosleri. Thrkhomys. (1399: 227 fouriei. Pipistrellus. 1040: 288 foxi, Dasymys. 0685: 685 foxi. Georychus. 0654: 462 foxi. Rhinolophiis. 0708: 314 foxi, Uranomys, 0675: 273 francei, Akodon. 0590: 497 francescae. Cercopithecits. 0381: 243 /ra(cr, CVfnomys. 0359: 228 fraler, F.votomys. 0569: 448 frater, Pelomvs. 0447: 415 fralerculum, Uromys. 0888: 428 fralercuhis. Gerbillus {GerhiUiscus}. 0260; 392 fralerculiis. Miniopterus. 0518; 162 fraterculus. Sciurus, 0174; 669 fralerniLs. Thomasomys. 1070: 602 fralrorum. Mus. (1206: 246 frelensis. Raiiifu melanopepla. 0613: 535 fretensLs. Taphozous melanopogon, 0795: 5 /ridu. Hesperomys. 11809; 1 ; 0892; 230, pi. 14, fig. 3 /rrwH. Bubirussa bahirussa, 0872; 187 fryanus. Callosciurus sladeni. 0776; 225, 232 fulgens. Oryzomys. 0138: 403 fulgens. Uromys. 0888; 426 lulnunans. Nvclinomus. 0425; 501 fulminaUts. Sciurus igniventris. 1045: 637 fulvidma. Fetis affims. 1088; 834 fulvulior. Herpestes ochraceus. 0452: 97 fulvior. Xenix microdon, 0474: 387, 389 fiilvnenler. Rhipidomys. 0208; 304 fiilvimis. Neclomys. 0218; 499 ftilvus. ChfilonycterisI davyi. 01 18: 410 fiirnatiis. Cricetulus griseiis. 0612: 503 fiimeolus. Sorex wardi. 0666; 49; 0679; 132 fiimeiis. Akodon. 0350; 137 fumidus. Soriculiis. 0706; 216 ftimosa. Crocidura. 0461: 236, 238 fiimosiis. Chelemys vestitus. 1063: 654 funiosils. Clenomys. 0887: 420 fumosus. Mystromys albicaudutiis. 0479: 137 /ura.v, Flmbalhmura. 0652: 384; 0737; 318 /Hra,v, CrKon, 0549: 162 fuscata. Marmosa, 0208: 313 fuscaliLs. Dasvplerus ega. 0336: 246 fuscaltis. Pipislrellia kiihlii, 033 1 : 34 fusciceps. FMobiiis. 0596: 265 fusciruis. Akodon, 0218: 496 fuseipes. Macroscelides, 0148: 68 fuscipes. Pipistrellus, 0708; 315 fuscosa, Crocidura doriana, 0716: 90 fusculus, Sciurus (Microsciuriis) similis. 0639: 503 fuscus. Mastacomys. (X)19; 413, figs. 1-3 gabriellae, Hylobales, 0606: 112 gadovii, Peromyscus leucurus. 0409: 484 gairdneri, Arctictis. 0781: 270 ga/ra/a. Hystrix. 0129: 230 Galenomys. (1775; 143 Galeoplerus. 05(>4: 254 Galeriscus, 0164; 522 gallariim. Coleura, 0762: 576, 577 gallarum. Galago, 0331; 27 gallarum, Leggada bella, 0616: 88 gambiana, Tatera, 0635: 428 gambitmiis, Epimys. 0660: 122 garganttia, Echymipera, 0730; 443; 0737; 323 garleppi. Phyllotis (?}. 0253; 279 garleppii, Nectomys. 0271: 41 garorium. Dremomys lokriah, 0945: 430 garoniim. Rattits listen. 0933; 27 gaiicho. Conepatus proteus. 1066; 203 gazeltae. Stealomys. 0981: 265 gazeliae. Tamiscus emini. 0827: 34 gazellae. Thamnomys macmillani. 0619; 282 geisha. Microtiis. 0476: 491 genoyensuirn. Platalina. 1072: 121. 123 gentiliilus. Mus. 0855:421 georgianus. Taphozous australis, 0766: 62 Geoxus, 0851: 207,209 gerbillus. Phyllotis. 0281; 15i Gerhilliscus. 0219; 1; 0221; 4.33; 0242; 935 94 J. E. HILL ^ermana. Marmosa, 0435: 143 gerrardi, Nundinia, 0412: 205 gesln. Mus. 0234: 611 gibsoni, Conepuuts,. 0618: 571 gihsoni. Sylvilagiis brasUiensis. 0831: 192 giliacus, Micromys speciostts. 0551: 411 gilliesi. Scaptochirits, 0622: 350 glaucinivi, Akodon, 0849: 116 glaucinus. Sciunis pusilhts, 0736: 575 glauiula. Felis. 0417: 235 glauais. Arlibeus. 0134: 336, pi. 29, figs. 7-9 glattctts. Pseudor7iys (Gyomys). 0642: 609 glauerli. Ratius. 1051: 308 Glaucomys. 0560: 5 Gliriscus. 1019: 232 gliroides. Dromiciops. 0166: 187 Glirnma. 0674: 239 Glinilm. 0496: 347 ghveri, Callosciurus castanenventris, 0901: 502 gloved. Oclunona. 0938: 19(1 Glyphonyaeris. 0208: 301 Glypholes. 0265: 250 godmani, Chaemnycteris. 04t)0: 288 gudmani. Pelrogale. 0966: 13:0979: 177 godmani, Phascogale. 0965: 174 goeldii. Cailimico. 0726: 345 goWAV. Wicia.5, 0459: 189 goMlii]. Oryzomys. 0218: 494 gofWii, Proechimys. 0478: 587 goeldv, Oryzomys, 0218: 494 (misprint for goeldii) golialh. Crocidura. 0503: 177 goodfellowi, Acanthoglossus, 0557: 498 goodfellowi, Ctenomys, 0894: 136 goodfellowi, Dendrolagiis, 0587: 450 goodfellowi. Rhipidomys. 0293: 270 gordoni. Jaculus. 0408: 33; 0420: 299 gorgon, Bradypits. 1036: 309 goslingi. Colomys. 0540: 380 goslingi. Ourebia. 0540: 387 goslingi. Procavia. 0471: 82 go.v.5C(. Akodon. 0887: 418 gracilior. Vespertilio capensis. 0483: 257 Srarifc, Gerhillus. (K198: 77 grao/iv, Nasillus. 0666: 49:0679: 130 gracilis. Oryzomys. 0169: 358 gAflo/iv. Thomasomys. 0809: 2:0892: 234, pi. 14, fig, 5 gracilis. Tupaia, 0141: 53 gracifa. Uromys. 0505: 328 gracillimus, Sorex minutus, 055 1 : 408 Grammomys, 0765: 150 grandis. Geomys, 0146: 270 grandu. Herpestes. 0080: 622, pi. 62, figs. 1-5 grandis. Nectomys. 0218: 498 grandis. Pleropus. 0041 : 147; 0044: 320, fig. 1 , pi. 25; 0066: 470 grant/, Galago. 0550: 286 granii, l.epus capensis, 0434: 6; 0449: 182 granH. Syhisorex. 0537: 118 gran». Taphozous. 0663: 378:0737: 319 granm, fla/omys, 0197: 162; 0263: 405, pi. 33, fig. 2, pi. 36, fig. 5 graniii. Genella. 0389: 487 grantii. Ot(tmys unisutcatits. 0386: 312 Graomys. 0775: 141 grafa. Leggada. 0621: 507 ,?ra(H/a. Pachyiira. 0535: 781 gregorianivi. .Aulacodus. 0150: 202 grenadae. Marmosa. 0655: 514 griselda. Arx'icanthis dorsalis. 0447: 414 griselda. Blarinella. 0696: 4(H) griselda. Dremomys pernyi. 0785: 392 griselda. h'elis ocreala. 1032: 180 grisonax. Mangos mungo. 1040: 294 Grypomys. 0656: 999 guairae. Proechimys. 0322: 27 gualei'iilae. Olotylomys. 0604: 32; 0610: 669 guayanas. Philander laniger. 0276: 286 guayanus. Sciurus stramineits. 0281: 150 guentheri. Madoqua. 0159: 324. figs. 1-2 guentheri, Madoqua, A40: 1 (nomcn nudum) guentheri. Trichys. (K)73: 235 guianae, Cavia porcellus. 0332: 152 guianae. Neacomvs. 0484: 310 guianae. Holochilus. 0332: 149 guianae, Loncheres. (M)62: 326 guianae. Oecomys. 063 1 : 1 87 guineae. Talera. 0623: 353 gujerati. Golunda ellioli. 0992: 374 gularis. Proechimys. 0661: 253 gHn«/, Millardia meltada. 0820: 202 Gunomys. 0553: 203 gurkha. Apudemus. 1006: 888 guri/ia, Leggadilla. 0744: 2(KI Guy/a, 0820: 201 gyas, Talerdlus. 0840: 150 gymnesicus. Elioniys, 041 1: 494 gymnolis. Peromyscus, 0169: 365 gymnura, Saccopteryx. 0318: 367 gymnurus, Echirnys, 0233; 550 Gyomy.s, 0641: 607 gyrator, Pseudochirus canescens, 0466: 401 hackelli, Pelrogale lateralis. 0487: 425 Hadromys. 0656: 999 haedinits. Taphozous perforatus. 0766: 62 Hacromys. 0646: 207 haggardi. Neotragus. 0176: 187 haggardi. Phylloits. 0266: 270 hahni. Suricata suricatta. 1065: 376 /wig;. fVfiomy.v. 0851: 210 hairtana. Mogera. 0629: 535 hainana. Pagttma larvata, 0599: 377 hainanus. Hvlohates. OHIO: 145. 146 hainanus, Rucervus plalyceros. 0829: 364 M. R. O. THOMAS 95 halli. Notodelphys. 0912: 137 hallucalis. Evolomys nageh. 1)520: 221 Immua. Ochouma (Ogolona). 0680; 407 hamiltoni, S/urictitaj slurictittaj. 0474; 134 hantilloni. Taphoztnts, OSfiy; 142 hammondi. Nectomvs, 0724; 570 hamptoni. Muslelii. (NOl; 500 Hciplomys. 0798; 304 hardvi. Hfliosciurus rufttbritchtum, 0971; 519 harin^toni, Sciurus. 04S5; 314 Imrpax. Cynopierus (Niadius). 0602; 439; 0615; 108 Hurpiola. 0768; 309 Harpvumycleris, 0206: 243 hcirringtont, Pelomvs, 0395: 313 harringtoni. Talera. 0525: 303 liarrisoni. Hylarnus. 0520: 149 harrisom, Kevivouta. 0310: 802. footnote harrisoni, Thryononiys, 0540: 384 harierti. Lepus, 0416: 301 harterti, Massoutit'ra. 0707: 31 harlerli. Vulpes pallida, 0906: 4 luini. Mas. 0270; 774 hard. Mas, A40; 4 (nomen nudum) hand. Ardheiis. 0117:409 harveyi. Cfphalaphtis, 0125; 48 harwoodi. Gerbdlus (Dipoddhi.s). 0339; 275, footnote hasulis. Callosciurus epomophorus. 0993: 377 hauxsa. Fells. 0906: 2 haiissa. Leggada, 0880: 319 hawkeri. Lepus. 0339; 277 hawkeri, Snrex. 0496: 339 haywoodi. Trageluphus. 0480: 9; 0490: 181 helvescens. Cercopilhecus pygerylhriis. 1040: 286 hendeei. Lagothnx (Oreonax). 1056: 156; 1057: 362 hendeei. Proechtmvs. 1047: 162 hendersoni. Rhvtichocyon, 0388: 403 /l(7isc/;. nidflphys (Peramys), (K157; 158 herberd. Petrogale. 1044: 626 hercules. Malhmys. 0682: 92 herero, Lepus caperisis. 1040: 308 herero. Scotophilus nigrlla. 0503: 174 AfrfTO. Thallomys. 1040: 303 hermard. Mvods. 0969: 252 hihemicus. Pulorim. 0182: 374; 0183: 125 lii/Ja. Dipoddhis. 0839: 62 /ii'Wu, Pmechimys. 1(K17; 534 hddegardeae. Crocidura, 0461; 237. 240 hildegardeae. Mus. 0357; 219 hddegardeae. Myolis, 0440; 209 hddegardeae. Taphoznus, 0605; 98 Ai7/jcr/. Phascugale. 0487; 427 himlakus. Trugoplerus, 0745; 231 /lindfi. Beamys. 0605; 107 /i/ni/o. Crocidura. 0461: 236. 237 /iinrfpi. Erinaceus. 0617: 193 hindei. Lophiomys iheanus. 0632: 223, 224 hindei. Lutra capensis. 0471; 78 /i/;i(/i-/, Madoqua kirku. 0380; 242 /imJn, MiK. 0357: 218 ;»>ic-/o/>c.s didactylus, 0299: .■(02 /gni/er, Cephalophiis, 0405: 29; 0419; 226 igndus, Callicehus lorqiialiis, 1068; 287 iheringi. Didelphys (Peramys). 0057; 158 iheringi. Oxymycterus. 0208; 308 iheringi, Proechimys, 0661; 252 i/aciis. Microlus. 0676; 348 t/ex, Apodemiis, 0960; 404 96 J. E. HILl. illulea. Abrolhrix. 1021: 582 illuleus. Hydromys esox. ()942: 264; 0958: 731 iltuteits, Lepiis oistolits, 0745: 233 imago. Aeihumys chrysophilus. 1065: 387 imarius, Callosciurus quinquestriants. 1046: 640 imhrertsis. Sfcoutntanesj t/rnalus. 0915: 772 imhulus, Meiachirus nudicaudalus, 0976: 605 imitator. Anisomys. 0427: 4; 0429: 200, pi. 23. figs. la-c imitator. CallosciuriLS. 1027: 502 imitator. Cehu.^. 0406: 376 imogene. Pharotis. 0742: 382 imperaior. Miis. (H)56: 157; (K)66: 489. pi. 22, figs. 2-3 imus. Dremomys pernvi. 0960: 400, 402 inambarii, Akodon pulcherrimus. 03111: 185 inca. Chaeronycteris. 0697: 403 inca. Conepaliis, 0296: 499 inca. Eptesicus, 0876: 363 inca. Orolestes. 0809: 3; 0892: 244. pi. 15, fig. 5 inca. Oxymyctenis, 0299: 298 inca. Pseudalopex. 0726: 361 inca. Sylvilagus brasiliensis, 0705: 210 inca. Viscaccia. 0541: 442 incanens, Pseudochirus laniginosus. 0968: 249 incaniLf. Cricetuliis tnton, 0592: 45; 0594: 973 incaniis. Nyclicebus. 0931: 627 incaniis. Oryzomvs, 0169: 350 incamis. Pelauroides volans. 0968: 247 incarum. Hohchilus. 0892: 226. pi. 14. fig. 1 incarum. Lutra. 0568: 392 incarum, Vampyrops zarhinus, 0681: 408 inclamax. Alouatta. 0724: 567 inclusa. Tatera. 0581: 169 incoTLStans, Tamiops. 0875: 306 incullus, Arclonyx ohscurus. 0960: 395 incursor. Hermgalus derbianus. 0760: 613 indefessiis. Oryzomys, 0276: 280 mdus. Dipodiilus. 0871: 935 indula. I.eggada bella. 0616: 88 mdulus, Mesemhriomys argurus. 0595: 151 inepltis. Mils chrysophilus. 0584: 546 irtepiiis, Tachvglossus aculeatus. 0513: 2. 0527: 477 inez. Microtus, 0592: 45; 0594: 976 infiatus, Miniopterus. 0426: 634 infiuatus. Scotinus. UK)8: 540 infrahiteiLs. Mus. 0063: 409; 0073: 232 infraluteus, Perognalhus, 0139: 406 infusca. Saccopteryx, 0233: 546 infusca. Tax idea fax us. 0236: 1;0241: K99 infuscus. Metachirus nudicaudatus. 0976: 606 infuscus. Sylvisorex gemmi'us, 0765: 152 ingrami, Macropus ualabalus. 0593; 792. pi. 43 ingrami. Phascogale. 0514: 6; 0528: 541. pi. 37. fig. ingrami. Sciurus. 0318: 366 iniscatus. Akodon. 0851; 205 Inomys. im\&. 197 mornatits, Chroemys, 0809: 2; 0892: 238. pi. 15. fig- 3 inquinatus, Sciurus pryeri, 0567: 247 insignis, Bubalis jacksoni, 0443: 22; 0456: 455 insignis, Dendrornys. 0421: 341 inslans. Oryzomys. 0201: 368 inslans. Zelotomys. 0773: 480 insularn. Cercopilhecus preussi. 0617: 191 insularis. Nyclocleplcs. 0763: 58 insulans, Spalax monticola. 0823: 315 intectus. Oryzomys, 0919: 356 intensus, Xerus ruiilans. 0452: 100 intercastelhmus. Phalangcr orientalis. 0192: 165 inlerces.sor, Eutamias asiaticus. 0592: 44; 0594: 969 interior, Funisciiirus congicus. 0792: 236 investigator, NasiUus. 0960: 393 io. Balantiopteryx, 0441; 252 io. la, 0M7: 164 lomys. 0560: 1 lo. Rhogeessa. (U07: 382 irani. Microius. 0900: 580, 581 irene. Microius. 0647: 5; 0649: 173 irene. SoncuUis. 0666: 49; 0679: 132 Irene. Sylvisorex gemmeus, 0765: 151 Irenomys, 0851:201 irex. Dirias. 0886: 273 iris, Amblysomus. 0475: 23; 0483: 259; pi. 16. figs. la-c iris, Oxymycterus. 0311: 183 isaaci. Boocerciis euryceros. 0385: 309; 0387: 7; 0396: 319 isabella. Depanycieris. 0886: 271 isis. Meriones. 0853: 271 ituricus, Epimys Umgicaudatus, 0765: 149 ivori, Helogale. 0858: 31 jabouillei. Bandicota. 1059: 54 jacenlior. Oxymycterus paramensis, 1020:580 jacksoni. Bubidus. 0107: 386 jacksoni, Crocidura. 0461: 237, 238 jacksoni, Galeriscus, 0164: 522 jacksoni, Otomys, 0089: 304; (M)92: 184. pi. 15 jacksoni, Otomys, A26: 1 (nomcn nudum) jacksom, Procavia, 0287: 25; 0292: 176. footnote jacksoniae, Leggada, 0902: 596 jacobs(mi, Cheiromcles, 0997: 592 janetta. Bathyergus, 0434: 6; 0444: 180. pi, 6. fig. 2 fanetia, Marmosa, 1039: 327 lanetta, Paguma leucomystax. 1082: 101 janetta, Sciurus pygcrythriLS, 0744: 203 japoniae. Miniopterus schreibersi. 0496: 338 japonicus, Micromys minutus, 0496: 351 javuna, Kcrivoula, (KMI5: 472. fig. javana, I.aria tnsignts, 0597: 19; 0607: 389 jayakan, Hemitragus. 0157: 365; 0163: 452. figs. 1-2. pi. 31 M. R. O. THOMAS 97 jelskii. Acodon. 0169: 360 jenlinki. Cephalophus. 0110: 415. 417 jenunki. Cephalophus. A32: 2 (nomen nudum) lemmki. Sciurus. 0()5I: 128; 0073: 230 jivaro, Nasua quichua, 0740: 58 jivaro. Philander lamger. 0721 : 358. 360 joanae, Talerona, 1040: 299 joarmia, Caviella australis, 0904: 446 joanniits, Octomys, 0917: 217 ioffrei. Nycialus. 0749: 225 Johannes. Microlus. 0626: 26: 0637: 637 johannis. Acomys. 0675: 272 johannis. Ctenomys colitdo, 0908: 523 johnstoni. Aepyceros melampus. 0122:553 johnstoni. Cephalophus. 0324: 45; 0325: 89 johnstoni. Graphiunis, 0242: 934 johnstoni. Graphiurus. A46: 2 (nomcn nudum) johnstoni. Procavia. 0154: 142 jonesi. Leporittus, 0929: 618 jordani. Callithrix penicillata, 0459: 188 yorrfam, Dipodillus. 0839: 60 fucunda. Ehgmodontia hirtipes. 0860: 131 jucunda, Mazatna amerieana, 0715: 587 jucundus. Akodon. 0703: 140 jucundus. Cerdocyon thous. 0903: 382 judaica. Crocidura russida. 0850: 199 /Hde.v, /Vusua. 0740: 57 judex. Oxymycterus. 0609: 238 /w-yu- Perodicticus. 0623: 351 juralis. Sciurus pvrrhonotus. 1045: 636 yuns, Clenomvs. 0873: 194 luvencus. Sfciurus]. 0591 : 498 kalinowskii. Dasyprocta. 0227: 219 kalinowskii, Nyctinomus. 0134: 334. pi. 29. fig. 10 kalinowskii. Oryzomys. 0169: 349 Aanai. Mogera wogura. 0496: 361 kangeanus. Paradoxurus, 0624: 385 kashtchenkoi. Ellobius. 0680: 404 kalhleenae, Funamhulus. 0766: 37. 38 kalhleenae. Mdlardia. 0739: 29 /tempi. Dellamys. 0815: 98 kempi. Procavia hrucei. 0617: 2W1 kempi. Ruusetlus. 0614: 543 kilirnanus, Alelerix. 0833: 232 kinneari. Callosciurus erylhraeus, 0776: 226. 229 kiriwinae. Phalanger orientalis. 0211: 528 kilcheneri. Pipisirellwi. 0749: 229 fc/v'U, Dendromus insignis. 0794: 242 klagest. Sciurus griseogena, 074 ! : 240 i/ luleola. Nycteris aethiopica, 0331: 30 luleoUis. Ctenomys opimus. 030i: 384 litleolus. Gerhillus stigmonyx. 0339: 275 lutfolus, Grison fttrax, 0549: 163 lutescens, FJlobius. 0228: 308 lutescens. Helogale hirtula. 0668: 725 lutescens. Mylomys. 0765: 149 lulescens. Phyllolis. 0350: 131 luticolor. Mus confuciantis. 0592: 45; 0594: 972 lulillus. Uromys. 0718: 216 Lutreolina, 0618: 247 lutreolma. Mustela. 0819: 261 lulhlla. Lfutreolinaj cfrassicaudalaj. (.t974: 585 luirma, Ratufa giganlea, 0776: 226 luzonicus. Mus. 0197: 163 lycaon. Meriones blackleri. 0853: 272 lylei. Hipposuieros, 0716: 88 lylei. Tamiops. 0975: 307 lynesi, Lenmiscomys. 0981: 267 macconnelli. Mesophvlla. 0332: 143. 145 macconnelli, Orvzomvs, 0631: 186 macconnelli. Sciurus. 0332: 148. footnote macculus. Arvicanthis. 0621: 515. pL 34, |Hg. I| mackenziei. Epimys. 0788: 410. 41 I mackilligini. Dipodtllus, 0453: 158 mackinderi. Procavia. 0287: 25; 02^2: 176 macleari. Mus. (K)50: 513, pi. 42 macmdlani. Dremomvs, 0776: 226, 238 macnullani. Helogale, 0525: 300 macmillani. Platymops, 0511: 5(X) macrodon, Bradvpus, 0808: 356 macronyx, Acodon, 0169: 362 macropus. Notomys mitchelli, 0925: 540 macrotis. Neoloma, 0144: 234 macrotis. Notomys. 0925: 538 macrurus. Crossarchus fasciatus, 0537: 120 maculatus, Cynopterus, 0137: 341 madeirae, Saimiri, 0576: 90 madrassitis, Harpiocephalus harpia, 0986: 88 madurae, Scutrus notatus. 0624: 386 maestus. Euxerus erylhropus, 0627: 419 magdelenae. Nectomys. 0218: 499 magister, Phyllolis. 0697: 406 magna. Dobsonia, 0487: 423 mayor, Chiropodomys. 0137: 344 mayfjr. Lophuromys. 0540: 382 majori. Eltunis. 0198: 164 majori. Microgalc. 0835: 305 majori, Microtus (Piiymys). 0508: 419 majori, Miniopterus. 0503: 175 majori. Tremarctos ornatus. 0356: 216 Majoria, 0763: 57, tootnolc malaccanus. Sciuropterus genibarbis, 0579: 304 tnalcolmi. Microius. 0647: 5; 0649: 174 Mallodelphys. 0873: 195. footnote Mallomys. 0250: 1 malosae. Macroscelides brachyrhynchus, 0242: 928 malosae. Macroscelides brachyrhynchus, A46: 2 (nomen nudum) mambatus, Pogonomys forhesi, 0890: 536 manarius. MicrosduriLS. 0886: 275 manavi. Miniopterus, 0503: 176 rnanchu, Mus nagnen, 0612: 502 rnandatus, Lepus capensis. 1040:309 mandmgo, Funisciurus. 0398: 79 rtuinipulus. Epimys, 0788: 413 manium. Nasua, 0694: 229 mansuetus. Potos flavus. 0726: 362 mantchurica, Ochotona (Pika) hvperborea. 0612: 504 manfchuricus, Mus agrarius, 0270: 774. footnote manlchuricus, Sciurus vulgaris. 0612: 501 mamiselae, Rattus, 0888: 424 mapravi. Callosciurus epomophorus, 0893: 120 rnarana, Ratufa phaeopepla, 0776: 227 maranu. Marmosa, 1007: 537 maraxica. Dasyprocla aguli. 0995: 341 maraxina. Monodelphis. 0987: 157 tnarcarum. Hesperomys carillus, 0809: 1;0892: 231 marchio. Petaurista nitida. 0563: 251 margarettae, Mus, 0137: 346 marica. EHgmodontia. 0845: 483 marica. Gazella. 0215: 162 marica. Leggada hella. 0616: 88 marica, Marmosa. 0262: 455 marica, Petaurista. 0686: 687 marica, Vandelauna oleracea. 0766: 54 marinus, Rcithrodon auriius, 0878: 474 marita, Crocidura. 0981: 253 maritimus. Phyllotis amicus. 0299: 296 rnarmorae. Or\zomvs (OecomysK 0531: 445 marmosurus, Rattus. 0899: 246 marmosurus. Rhipidomys, 0277: 378 marmota. Procavia. 0324: 45; 0325: 88 marrensis. Cercopithecus tantulus. 0981: 248 marrensis. Crocidura hindei. 0981: 252 marrensis. Pipistrellus. 0981: 249 marrensis. Procavia ruficeps, 0981: 27! martinsi. Leontocebus, 0671: 85 ma.shonae, Otomys, 0842: 210 Mastacomys, 0019: 413: mastivus. Molossops. 0645: 113 Mw.v^jm.VA. 0773: 477 matroka. Vespertilio. 0483: 258 matschiei. Vespertilio. i)A92: 573 mattensis. Nectomvs sifuamipes. 0430: 238 maurisca. Crocidura, 0461: 237, 239 maurus. Molossus, 0332: 141 maxwelli, Mellivora. 0994: 340 mayori. Coelomys. 0750: 415 100 J. E. HILL mediliinus. Cryptomys, 0919: 354 mediiis. Blassaricyonj, ()609: 232, 233 meditis. Cremnomys, 0776: 240 meditis. Dasymys. 0519: 143 meditis. Graomys. 0854: 494 meditvi. Hemigaiago demidoffi, 0773: 466 meditis. l.oncheres. 0609: 239 meditis. Minioplerus. 0607: 382 meeki, Embalkmura. 0211: 527 meeki, Hyomys. 0427: 4; 0429: 198. pi. 23. figs. 2a-c meeki. Phalanger orientalis, 0264: 434 meinertzhageni. Hylochoeriis. 0463: 577; 0465: 12; 0469; 193. pis, 14-15 meinertzhageni. Myotis, 1042: 609 melampus. Dactylopsila, 0561: 122 melantus. Crunomys, 0539: 5; 0547: 141 melanuis. Nectomys sqimmipes, 0631: 185 melannis. Phyllotis. 0709: 407 melanochra. Ratiifa macrotira, 0766: 36 melanogasler, Sciunis. 0174: f>68 melanotis. Oryzom\s, 0138: 404 melanotis. Phalanger. 0250: 2 melanotus. Sciiirus niger, {X)82: 73, pi. 6 melantho. EricuUis setosus. 1033: 250 melanlho. Felts yagttarondi, 0726: 350 melantho, Metachirns oposstim. 0976: 602 melanura. Phascogale. 0274: 191 melamira. Tupata. 0103: 252; 0105: 224. pi. 19. figs. 4-5 melanurus. Carpomys. 0197: 162; 0263; 407. pi. 34. fig. 2, pi. 36. fig. 6 melanurus. Metachirus opossum, 0276: 285 melihius. Conilunis. 0921: 431 melicertes. Hydromvs. 0921: 430 meltcus. Uromys, 0718: 215 melinus. Grison furax, 0692: 47 melissa. Vampvressa. 1047: 157 mellandt. Georychus. 0503: 178 Melomys. 0941: 261 melonit. Glis, 0542: 445 melvtlleus. Rattiis. 0921: 427 menadensis. Boneia, 0206; 242 menamicus. Callosciurus ferrugineus. 1088: 839 mendostis, Conepatus stiffocans, 0918: 222 meneliki. Lutra capensis. 0395: 309 Menetes. 0566: 244 mensalis. Lama vicugna. 0809; 3; 0892: 243 mentostis, Dremomys pernyi, 0960: 400, 401 mentosus. Rattus. 0801: 643 mephisto, Sasua nasua. 1057:367 mergultvi. Petaurista. 0964: 1067 mergultis. Tragultis raviLS, 0983: 85 meridensis. Blarina, 0262: 457 meridensis. Nasua olivacea, 0336: 249 meridensis. Oryzomys. 0169: 351 meridensis. Polos f I lav us j. 0361; 267. 268 meridensis, Sciurus griseogena, 0314: 192 meridensis. Sylvilagus. 0450: 36 merriami, Geomys, 0146: 271 merrilli. Gazella. 0467: 19; (W70: 347. fig. 90 Mesoctenus. 0837: 366 Mesophylla. 0332; 143 messoritis, Dendromys, 0421: 340 messorius. Oryzomys navus. 0332: 151 messoritis. Psetidomys (Leggadina), 1023: 670 mesurtis. Trichostirus vtilpecula, 1044: 633 micans. Mystax devillei, 1083: 256 micfitanus. Callosciurus erythraetis. 0960; 397 muonax. Aolus, 1057: 365 MtcrodilltLs. 0616; 197 microdon, Xerus, 0474; 387. 389 Microgale. 0017: 319 M/rmrvJom.v'v, 0809: 1 microtimis. Oryzomys, 0169; 358 microtis, Nyctophilus, 0061; 226 microtis, Rhipidomys, 0208: 304 M/t-mtitv. 0609; 237 muias, Sciurus sladeni, 0744: 197, 198 mikado. Evolomys, 0493: 18:0486: 352 miletus. Microtus (Fothenomys) melanogasler. 0746: 474 millardi. Calloscttirus sladeni. 011&. 225, 234 millardi. Dacnomys. 0788: 405 Millard ta. 0656: 998: miV/^n. DvTomyj. 0680; 394 millicens. MtcrotiLS. 0666: 49; 0679: 138 millsi. Acanthton. 0945: 431 mdlsi, Helictis. 0945; 432 mima. Procavia, 0302: 387 mimax. Cerdocyon, 0726: 355 mimtix. Octomys. 0883: 117, 118 mtmetes. Phascogale swainsoni, 1016:528 Mimetillivi. 0464; 12; 0468: 188 mimetra. Helogale. 1032; 183 mimetra. Marmosa. (t907: 521 mimicus, Phalanger orienlalis, 0953: 680 rnimulus, Dipodtllus. 0364; 362 mtmulus, Phascogale. 0525; 540 mtmultis, Pseudomys (Leggadina) deltcaiiilus. 1(>44: 634 mimulus, Sciurus (Microscitirus). 0266: 266 mimus. Oxvmyctertis. 0311; 183 minahassae. Mus. 0206; 247 minax. Paradoxurtis. 0599: 375 minax. Trogoptertis. 0978: 660 rrundorensis. Mus. 0220: I ; 0263: 402 minensis. Sylvilagus, 0341: 534 mmtitus. Steatomys. 0482; 174 miodon. EnnacetLs, 0592; 44; 0594: 965 miotis. HistiotiLS velatus. 0783: 273 nurae. Tvlnmys. 0276: 278 mirandiLs. Hipposideros demitsus. 0729: 437 mitis, Herpestes galera. 0395: 309 mitis, Lutra, 0568: 393 M. R. O. THOMAS 101 miurus. Hesperomys frida. 1038: 314 mizurus, Orvzomys tna^ellanicus. 0779: 186 modesta. Heliclis suhauranliaca, 0939: 196 modesta. Phascogale tnelanura. 0672: 92 modesta, Vandeleuna oleracea. 0744: 202 modestior. Abrothrix suffusus, 0851: 202 modestus. Dremomys pernyi. 0785: 393 modestus. Metachirus nudicaudalus, 0976: 606 modestus. Potos fflavusj. 0361: 267, 269 modesliis. Pseudochirus lamginosus. 1044: 362 modestus, Reilhrodontomys, 0549: 163 modicus. Rhipuiomys. 1047: 161 modigliami. Pleropus, 0160: 106 moemis. Cavia. 0254: 284 moerens. Abrolhnx suffusus, 0851: 203 moerens, Oenomys bacchante , 0650: 379 moerens. Proloxerus stangeri, 0973: 527 moerescens. Mfenetes} hferdmoreij. 0739: 24 moerex. Or\zom\s albigularis. 0741: 241 moheuis. Callosciurus. 0893: 122 mohdlius. Callosciurus moheius. 0893: 122 molliae. Isothrix vdlosa. 1007: 534 mollis. Acodon. 0169: 363 mollis. Lagostomus maximus, 0618: 245 mollis. Uromys, 0717: 210; 0737: 322 moloneyi. Vesperugo (Vesperiisi. 0094: 528, fig. moluccarum. Leuconoe. 0748: 170 monacha. Crocidura russula, 0508: 417: numastria. Peradorcas concinna, 1044:630 monax, Crocidura. 0634: 310 monckloni. Crossomys. 0548: 72 moncktoni. Uromys, 0466: 399 mondraineus. Rattus, 0921: 428 mongol, Mwrotus agrestis. 0670: 759 mongolium. Mus wagneri, 0575: 106 montana. Tupaia. 0103: 252; 0105: 223 montamis, Dasymys, 0519: 143: montamis, Phyllolis amicus. 0299: 297 montensis. Akodon arviculoides, 0709: 405 Monticavia, 0797: 303 monticularis. Lepus, 0397: 78 monticularis. Praomys. 1019: 238 montis, Crocidura fumosa, 0519: 138: montis, Mus jacksom, 0621: 503 montosus, Eptesicus, 0876: 363 montosus, Gliriscus rupicola. 1019: 233 montserratense. Sfenoderma, 0152: 133: mordax. Arvicanthis. 0654: 460 mordax. Bandicota, 0801 : 642 mordax. FAineomys, 0697: 410 mordax. Harpiocephaius, 09H6: 88 mordax. Lonchophylla. 0422: 459 mordax, Macaca. 0601: 380 mordax. Mungos paludinosus. 0698: 588 mordax, Mus. 0466: 398 mordax, Notomys. 0946: 317 mordax, Plecotus. 1050: 306 mordax. Trogopteriis. 0745: 230 mordtcus. Mastacomys, 0961: 551 mordosus, Ctenomys sylvanus. 1039: 325 tnoreni. FAigmodontia, 0208: 307: morem, Lagidium. 0217: 467 morosa, Ochotona cansa, 0696: 403 mossambicus. Paraxerus flavivittis. 0858: 31 mossambicus. Petrodromus (Mesoctenus). 0837: 369 moslellum. Hipposideros commersoni, 0446: 385 mounseyi. Leontocebus, 0870: 144 mullah, Acomys. 0452: 103 mullulus. Epimys berdmorei, 0788: 413 murex, Phascogale, 0701: 80 Munculus, 0395: 314 muriculus. Dipodtllus, 0981: 263 munculus. Hesperomys, 0930: 623 munlla. Leggada triton, 0616: 91 murillus, Hesperomys, 0779: 183 murinus. Uromys, 0718: 216 murrayi, Raltus. 0975: 601 muscalis. Uromys. 0718: 217 muscatellum. Rhmopoma, 0412: 498 musciculus. Pipislrellus. 0708: 316 muscilla. Kerivoula. 0524: 294 muscina, Phyllorhina. 0036: 201 musculma. Eligmodontia laucha. 0103>: 138 Mylomys. 0523: 224 myoides, Xeromys, 0075: 248, pi. 29. figs. 1-12 Myomys, 0773: 477 Myonax, 1085: 408; 1091 : 102 Myoprocta. 0422: 464 Myoscmrus. 0603: 469, 474 Myotomys. 0842: 204, 206 myrella. Kerivoula. 0729: 438 Myrsilus, 0603: 469. 470 mysoliae, Dorcopsis. 0714: 507 my«/"(ts, Elephanlulus rupeslris, 0529: 586 nagarum, Callosciurus erythraeus. 0716: 225, 228 nagarum, Leggada, 0902: 597 naivashae, Tachyoryctes. 0614: 547 nakanus, Callosciurus epomophorus. 0893: 120 namaquana, Felis ocreata, 1032: 180 namaquensis. Sfuricataj s/urtcattaj. 0479: 134 /m^m. C'rfvm, 0805: 158 nancillus, Gerbillus. 0981: 260 nandia, Crocidura, t*605: 99 Nanocavia, 1018: 418,419 nanogigas. Sciurus bicolor, 0202: 490 nanopardiLs. FelLs pardus. 0452: 94 nanulus. Pipislrellus. 0460: 198 «a«u,v. Holochilus. 0218: 495 «ap/, 5r/Hriiy (Microsciurus} peruanus. 0299: 295 narranus, Lfepusj capensis. 1040:309 /Vu.?///(>, 0515: 10:0529: 578 Nasillus. 0666: 49; 0679: 130 naso, Lophuromys, 0650: 381 102 J. E. HILL naso. Uromys. 0652: .■(86; 0737: 321 nalalis. Pleropus. 0050: 511. pL 41 nationi. Dasypus. 0149: 70 naliviialis. Mus. 0067: 533 natunae, Semnopithecus, 0167: 652 natttnensis. Sfciunisj lowi. 0179: 26 nauticits, Hydromys, 0921: 429 nauticus. Isoodon. 0952: 678 namicus. Philander laniger. 0721: 358. 359 navigator. Micromys speciosus, 0496: 358 Neacomys. 0281: 153 neavei, Leggada, 0616: 90 negrensis. Galea, 085 1:211 negrensis, Isolhrix bistriata, 0886: 277 negrinus, Mus ephippium, 0263: 403 neg.ito, Bolomys. 1037: 312: nemuhts, Calluehus. 0576: 88 neocenus, Akodon. 0852: 213 Neoaodim. 0351: 24; 0354: 114 Neotomys. 0169: 346 nero. Helogale parvula. 1085: 408; 1091; 104 nero. Uromys. 0717: 208; 0737: 320 nesaea. Marmosa. 0655: 515 nesaeus, Dasyurus hallttcatus, 1054: 544 Nesictis. 0939: 194 nesioles. Sciuriis villatus, 0602: 439; 0615: 1 15 Nesogale. 0834; 303 Nesonycteris. (KMl; 147; (X)44: 323; (K)66: 476 Nesoromys. 0942: 263 Nesoryctes. 0835: 303, 307 nestor, Cricetulus. 0555: 466 n/a/fl. Cfliifl. 0253: 282 nicaraguae. Marmosa cinerea, 0484; 313 nicefori, Ichlhyomys. 1000: 165 nicefori, Svlvilagits, 0924: 442 nieefori, Thomasomys. 0919: 355 nichollsi. Slenoderma. 0094; 529 nicolli. Psammomys ohesus. 0577; 92 nigeriae. Arvicamhis harharus, 0675: 272 nigeriae. Chaerephon. 0708; 319 nigeriae. Gerhillus. 0880: 317 nigeriae, Sciurus slangeri, 0524: 295. 296 nigeriae, Talcrillus. 0654; 459 nigerianus, .Mungo.s na,«<. 0698; 588 nigralus. Melachirits opossum, 0976: 603 nigraius. Myimux. 1085; 408; 1091: 103 nigrensis. Anomalurus fraseri, (M64: 12:0468; 190 nigrensis, Funisiiiirus mandingo. 061 1: 477 nigrescens, Heteromxs salvini. 0144: 234 nigriana, Caviella aiisiralis. 0904; 446 nigricans, Tragulus, 0103: 254 nigricauda. Mils. (X)I6: 266. pi. 14. tig. 1 nigricauda. Mus. A07; unpaginalcd (nonien nudum) nigriceps. Clenomys opimus, 0301; 383 nigriceps, Saimiri holiviensis, 0383: 246 nigripes, Sciuroplerus. 0140; 30 nikkonis. PjelaurLstal l/eucogenysl. 0476: 488. 489 nilosa. Coleura gallarum. 0762; 576. 577 nilolica. Lutra maculicollis. 0668: 726 ninus. Rallus elm. 0960; 404 niobe, Crocidura. 0519; 138 niobe. Funambulus, 0265: 249 niobe, Mus. 0505: 327 niiedulus. Oecomys. 0639; 505 miela. Klupidomys. 0332: 148 nuWu. Tlhallomysl. 0996; 493 nilidula. Pelaurisla. 0306: 592 nitidus. Hesperomys laticeps var.. 0023: 452. pi. 42. fig. I niveatus. Funiseiurus leucostigma, 097 1 : 522 niveipes. Oryzomys. 0208; 305 nogulari.t. Phyllolis. 0927: 611 norae, Surdisorex. 0523: 223 notabilis. Protoxerus slangeri. 0973: 528 notata. Gazella granti. 0232; 475 no;a»«. Thomasomys. 0809: 2; 0892: 233. pi. 14. fig. 4 nolialis. Pseudochirus laniginosus, 0988: 158 notina. Perameles myttsura. 0957: 144 noiinus. Passariscus sumichrasti, 0406; 379 Notiomys. (Xi88; 23 Notodelphys. 0912: 137 Nolotragus. 0504; 10; 0518; 168 Noioxus. 0851: 209 (nomen nudum, lapsus lor Geoxits. substituted in MS in collected works) nubalis. Lemniscomys dunni, 098 1 ; 267 nubila. Abrothrix hirla, 1092; 40 nuhrica, Ocholona. 0938; 187 nucus. Akodon. 1055; 636 nudaster. Taphozous kachhensis, 0766: 59 mix. MicroliLs. 0626: 26; 0637: 636 mix. Scotoplulus nignta, 0440: 208 nyasae, Cephalophus. 0348: 58 nyasae, Dendromus. 0794: 241 nyikae. Mus. 0219: I; 0221: 431; 0242: 936 nyikae. Oryctolagits crassicaudatus. 0382: 244 nymphaea. Vampyressa. 0609: 230 obfuscatus. Helioscutrus rufobrachium. 0972; 526 obiensis, Uromys. 0646; 208 obscura. Lichonycteris. 0196; 56 obscurior. Oryzomys phaeopus. 0169: 356 obscurus. Caenolestes, 0201: 367 omisius. Fchimys. 0905; 450 occidentalis. Eliomys lerotiniLS, 0416: -3(M) occullus. Clenomys. 0885: 243 occullus. Promops. 0764: 62 ochracea. Itelogale victorina, 0617: 194 oihracea, Poiana richardsoni, 0540: 372 ochraceiventer. Mils. 0170: 451. 456 ochraceus. Paraxerus. 0605: 106 ochraspis. Pelaurisla. 0989: 172 ot7ir*'sc*'«.?, .Sciurus ciLscinus. 0726; 362 ochrinus, Oryzomys harbacoas, 0905; 449 M. R. O. THOMAS 103 Ochromys. 0K6S; 142 Oclomys. 0883: 117 Oecomys. 0531: 444 oemmthe. Callicehus, 1013: 286 oenax. Thomasomys. 1073: 154 oenone. Funiscitdrus congicus. 1040: 297 okiensis, Lepiis brachyums, 0496: 359 olga. Claviglis. 1024: 191 olga. Lenmiscomys, 0906: 9 olilor. Microtus {Eothenomys), 0666: 50; 0679: 139 olivellus. Funisciurus congicus. 0447: 410. 411 itlivinus. Oryzomys phaeopus, 0383: 247 idlula. Mydaus. 0369: 443 oUiila. Sylvisorex. 0708: 321 olympius. Funambidus palmarum. 0766: 38.41 omanensis. Lepus. 0163: 450 omari, Myotis myotis, 0498: 521 omensis. Cercopithecus, 0308: 4; 0310: 801 omensis. Helioscturns multicolor, 0605: 104 oncilla. Felis panUnoides. 0417: 237 oniscus, Microtus, 0667: 723 oniscus, Oryzomys, 0435: 142 oniscus, Paraechinus. 0959: 307 ophmsae, FJiomys. 1028: 389 opimus, Dremomys rufigenis. 0776: 225, 237 oralis. Gerbillus swalius, 1019:236 oralis. Pfoecilictisf, mil: 368 oralis. Pseudochirus laniginosus. 1044:631 oralis, Pseudomys australis, 0929: 621 oratus. Vampvrops. 0743: 411 orbus. Akodon. 0854:497 ordinalis. Eutamias asiaticus, 0592: 44; 0594: 968 oreas. Pfetauristuj Ifeucogenysj, 0476: 488, 490 Oreonax. 1056: 156; 1057: 362; 1070: 596 oresles. Apodemus speciosus. 0666: 49; 0679: 136 Orestes. Arctonyx leucolaemus. 0653: 27; 0664: 688 Orestes. Nyctereutes procyonoides, 0978: 657 Orestes. Otomvs irroratus. 0292: 175 orestes. Sciurus notatus. 0190: 530 orianae. Mimopterus. 0963: 616 orientis. Neomys fodiens. 0735: 564 orientis, Sciurus vulgaris, 0496: 345 orinoci. Loncheres (Isolhrix) bistriatus, 0277: 382 orinoci, Peramys hrevidaudatus, 0273: 154 orinoci, Sylvilagus i)295: 356 oris. Oenomys, 0650: 380 oris. Proechimys, 0459: 195 ornata, Perameles, 0427; 4; 0429: 201 ornatus, Anthops, (X)56: 156; 0066: 477. pi. 22. fig. 1 ornaius, Dremomys rfufigenis}. 0739: 26 ornatus, Nycticehus, 0931: 627 ornatus. Oenomys. 0650: 378 ornatus, Vampyrodes, UK)7: 532 Orolesies. 0809: 3 osgoodi. Oecomys. 1013: 287 otinu.s, Sciurus (Microsciurus), 0314: 193 Otomops. 0711-91 oweni. Arvicanthis. 0660: 120 oweni, Procavia. 0660: 123 oweni, Scapanulus, 0696: 396, 397 oweni, Uranomys, 0635: 431 owensi. Tomeutes similis. 0776: 225, 236 owstoni. Chrotogale, 0678: 17; 0688: 500, figs. 61-63; 1059:47. pis. 1-2 owstoni, Zetis, 0567: 248 oxianus, Citellus fulvus. 0757: 422 pacator. Lfeontocebus}, 0726; 346 pachita, Proechimys. 0998: 694 pacipcus. Akodon. 0350: !35 paeze, Phvllostomus hastatus, 1(K)1: 235 pahari. Mus. 0788: 414 palaestina, V'ulpes vulpes, 0S67: 122 palawanensis. Tupaia ferruginea. 0158: 367 pallescens, Callicebus, 0549: 161 pallescens. Nyctophilus geoffroyi, 0701: 79 pallescens. Perameles nasuta. 0965: 173 pallida. Procavia. (K}97: 908; 0099: 67. pi. 3 pallidior. Apodemus agrarius. 0573: 7 pailidior, Cavia tschudii, 0805: 158 pallidior. Cynictis penicillata, 0434: 5; 0449: 175 pallidior, Dasyuroides hvrnei, 0505: 330 pallidior, Kannabateomys amblonyx. 0410: 489 pallidior, Kerodon niata, 0359: 229 pallidior, Lagorchesles conspicillatus. 0593: 793 pallidior. Marmosa elegans, 0375: 159. 161 pallidus. Mimopterus schreibersi. 0552: 197 pallidas. Philander laniger, 0276: 286 palmeri, Oecomys, 0661: 251 palmeri, Sciurus (Microsciurus). 0609: 234 palnica. Leggada. 0985: 87 pahistris. Kerodon. 0658: 608 pampanus. Conepatus suffocans. 0918: 221 pampanus. Reithrodon cuniculoides, 0798: 304 pamparum. Cavia rufescens. 0342: 538 pamparum, Eligmodontia morgani. 0724: 572 panamensis, Dasypterus ega. 0336: 246 panamensUi, Oryzomys, 0336: 252 panamensis. Proechimys centralis. 0283: 220 pandora, Dasyprocla, 0821: 313 panjioli, CallosciuriLs epomophorus, 0893: 120 panjius. Callosciurus epomophorus. 0893: 119 pannosus, Dasypus vellerosus. 0360: 244 pannosus, Rhizomys, 0763: 60 /ja/>H«. Phyllorhina. 0036: 204 papuana, Emballonura, 0730: 443; 0737: 318 paraganus. Oryzomys ratticeps, 1011: 144 paraguensis, Sylvilagus. 0342: 539 Paralomys, 1038: 315 paramensis. Oxymycterus, 0350: 139 paramorum, Thomasomys. 0262: 452 paranalis, L/utreolinaJ cfrassicaudataj. 0974: 584 paranus, Molossus planirostris, 0335: 190 parata, Marmosa. 0655: 517 104 J. E. HILL Pardiais. 1027: 498 paricola. Rhipidomys. ()459: 194 parilina. l.ulra. 0740: 59 Parolomys. 0842: 204. 205 parthianiis, Citelltis fulvus. 0757: 423 pasha. Leggada. 0616: 89 pasquieri. Hapalomys. 1059: 57 pastasae. Talu. 1)318: 370 paiagomctts. Eitmops, 1001: 234 pater. Cannomys. 0770: 315: paterculus. Pipislrellus. 0766: 32 patrius. Mus. 0593: 791 paulina. Leggada. 0846: 485 paupera. Golunda ellioti. 0992: 374 pearsoni. Felis concolor. 0334: 188 pearsoni, Petrogale. 0954: 682 pearsoni. Solisorex. 1015: 94. 95 peasei. Macroscelides, 0333: 154 pebilis. Mystax nigrifrons. 1084: 286 pedester. Epimys walamhae. 0662: 376 peterimts. Meriones. 0853: 266 pelliceus. Arvicanthis abyssinicits. 1074: 303 pelticeus, Eptesicus fttscus. 0876: 361 pelliceus. Microttis. 0651: 383 pellucens. Vespertilio matschiei. 0498: 520 penicillatus. Eliurus. 0588: 450 peninsulae. Galeopterus. 0579: 303 peninsulae. Isoodon. 0952: 679 peninsulae. Micromys speciosus, 0536: 862 peninsulae. Oryzoniys. 0233: 548 peninsularis. Lynx rufus. 0243: 42 peninsularis. Vespertilio fuscus. 0243: 43 penricei. Equus. 0303: 465 papilio. Glauconycteris. 0471: 77 pequinius. Myotis (Leuconoe), 0585: 637 peracer. Rhinosciurus. 0602: 440:0615: 120 Peradorcas. 0436: 226 peralta. Giraffa camelopardalis. 0245: 1:0246: 40 percivali. CIneotis. 033 1 : 28 percivali. Helogale. 0668: 724 perfulvidus. Herpestes ochraceiis. 0452: 96 perfusca. Marmosa. 1(X)1: 236 perlutea. VLscaccia. 0541: 443 perluleus. Talerillus. 0981: 259 perlulus. Epimys whiteheadi. 0646; 205 Peroryctes, 0527: 476 perrensi. Ctenomys. 0208: 31 1 persica. Crocidura leucodon. 0552: 198 peruana, Anthorhina. 0998: 693 peruanus, Cehus fatuellus, 0311: 178 perustus. AnomaluriL'i jacksoni. 0792: 235 pervalens. Akodon sylvanus. 1020: 579 peshwa. Leuconoe, 0760: 61 1 pesliculus. Raltus. 0899: 248, 0935: 111 Petaurillus. 0560: 3 Petinomys. 0560: 5. 6 petrina, Saimiri sciurea. 1057: 364 PcfromviTiu. 1031: 174, 179 Petropseudes. 0968: 250 peucinus. Sorex araneus. 0706: 216 phaea. Marmosa. 0272: 44 Phaenomys. 0816: 196 phaeocephttlus. Pteropus. 0021: 756, pi. 54 phaeocephalus. Pteropus. A09: 3 (nomen nudum) phaeopus. Oryzomys. 0169: 355 phaeotis. Arvicanthis dorsalis. 0635: 429 phaeotis. Rhipidomys. 0311: 181 phaeura, Chimarrogale, 0265: 246 phaeunis. Carpomys. 0197: 162; 0263; 408, pL 34, fig l,pL 36, fig. 7 phaeurus, Metachirus nudicaudatus, 0326: 545 phalaena. Glauconycteris. 0761: 560 phataena. Kerivoula. 0695: 281 phalaena, Paraxerus cepapi, 1040:296 Pharotis, 0742: 381 Phaulomys, 0476: 493 P/ii7fWr, 0358: 220 philistinus. Microtus. 0810; 450 phillipsi. Herpestes flavidens. UKI3: 239 phillipsi. Heterocephalus. (X)29: 612, footnote; 0030: 854, pi. 54, tigs. 1^ phillipsi. Madoqua. 0159: 327; fig. 3 phillipsi. Madoqua. A40: 1 (nomen nudum) phipsimi, Pteromys (Petinomys}, 0788: 422 phoenicurus. Mangos, 0695: 280 phoeniura, Tupaia gILs, 0969: 255 phoxinus. Ornithorhvnchus anatinus. 0965: 176 phrygius. Dyromys nitedula, 0556: 407 picata, Anthorhina. 0422: 457 p/cflla. Dactvlopsila. 0561; 122. 123 picia. Tupaia, 0103: 251 pictor, Chiropodomvs, 0646: 207 p/rtor. Rhipidomys, 0459: 193 ptclus, Heteromys. 0144: 233 p/cnu, Philander laniger, 0721: 358, 360 p/cri«. Rheithrodon. (K)23: 457, pL 43, fig. 2. pi. 44. figs. 19-21 pipidonis. Callosciurus epomophorus. 0893; 121 pirata. Callosciurus flavimanus. 1088; 836 pirata. Phascogale penicillata. 0436: 229 Platalina. 1072; 120 platensis. OxymycteriLs. 074 1 ; 244 Platymops. 0511:499 platvops. Graphiurivi, 0216; 388 platyops. Uromvs. 0505; 327 platyops, Vespertilio. 033 1 : 31 plumbescens. Cannomys ca.staneus. 0770: 315 Poeciliclis. 0777: 367 poecilops. GerhilluK (Dipodillus). 0193: 549 poecilotui. Caracal caracal. 0906: 3 /"oemy.?. 0792: 238 pnemis. Galago demidoffi. 0464: 12; 0468; 1X6 poliurus. Colohus ahyssinicus. 0.308; 4; 0310; 800 pondoliac, Ambly.somus hottentotus. 0483: 260 M. R. O. THOMAS 105 ponticiis, Evotomys, 0508: 417 pontifex. Cienomys. 0828: 39 popaea, Leggada nitidula, 0855: 420 porcinus. Conepatus. 0350: 128 ponuliis, Uromys, 0466: 400 portali, Crocidura, 0867: 119 porteousi, Cienomys. 0798: 303 porleri. Aconoemys. 0807: 281 posticalis. Phyllotis darwini, 0697: 406 praeconis, Pseudomys (Thetomys). 0642: 608 praedax. Crocidura, 0978: 656 Praesorex, 0708: 320 praetor. Mas. (M1S6: 158; 0066: 481, pi. 22. fig. 6 praetor. Oryzomys. 0295: 354 Praomys, 0173: 477 pratti, Hipposideros. 0094: 527 prattorum. Rhynchomek'S. 0888: 429. 430 predator. Dasvurus hallucalus. 1054: 543 presina. Pardictis pardicolor. 1027:499 pricei, Ochotona (Ogotona), 0670: 760 prieslleyi, Pyromys. 0656: 997 primrosei. Petaurista merguhis. 1049: 22 primula. Myolis, 0891: 248 prmceps. Geosciurus. 1091: 106 prmceps, Oryzomys, 0196: 58 princeps, Procavia brucei, 0617: 199 principula. Microgale. 1035: 251 principulus. DipodiUus. 0981: 262 principulus. Pipislrellus. 0749: 231 prittiei, Lophuromys, 0662: 377 prohus. Sciuropterus phayrei, 0739: 28 Proedromys, 0647: 4; 0649: 177 profusus. Rattus villosissimus, 0929: 620 proiixus. Uromys. 0718: 213 proteus. Conepatus. 0359: 239 proteus. Mungos gracilis, 0537: IJ9 provocax. Crocidura turba. 0630: 1 12 provocax. Lulra. 0568: 391 pruinosus. Coendou. 0484: 310 pruinosus. Papio. 0212: 789. pi. 38 pruinosus, Papio. A44: 1 {nomen nudum) pryeri, Sciurus, 0115: 214 Pferalopex. (K)56: 155; (X)66: 473 Pteromyscus, 0560: 3 puella, Petrogale. 1044: 627 pwer. Akodon. 0350: 136 pulcher. Chiruromys. 0192: 164 pulcher. Macroscelides. 0148: 69 pulcher rmuLs. Akodon, 0233: 549 p«//ara. Presbytis cristata. 0602: 439; 0615: 106 pumila, Procavia. 0617: 20! putnila, Saccopleryx. 0743: 410 pumilio, Arlibeus. 1007: 531 punctatus. Loncheres. 0273: 153 punctulatus, Acodon. 0169: 361 punensis, Viscaccia. 0541: 443 punicus. Eplesicus. 0876: 364 puralis, Myoprocla pratti. 1045:639 purgatiis, Sylvilagus, 0865: 32 purillus, Lfeontocebus}. (1726: 347 purinids. Callicehus torquatus. 1058: 509. 510 pusaea. Felis pardalis. 0726: 347 pusilla. Kenvoula. 0171: 461 pusUlum, Rhinopoma. 0884: 25 pusillus. Anomaiurus, 0053: 440; 0054: 8. pi. 1 pusillus. Anomalurus. A18: 1 (nomen nudum) pusillus. Chiropodomvs. 0137: 345 pusillus. Mus margareilae. 0143: 232 pvgmrtfrt. Spilogale. 0235: 1 ; 0240: 898 pygrius. Cercopithecus biittikoferi, {y^ll: 607 Pvromvi'. 0656: 996 pyrrhinus. Sciurus. 0266: 265 pyrrhomerus. Sciurus. 0199: 242 pyrrhotis. Acodon jelskii. 0169: 361 pyrrhus. Caluromys laniger, 0314: 196 quaestor, Oxymycterus. 0399: 226 quantulus. Callosciurus fiavimanus, 1059:51 quelchii, Sciurus. 0332: 147 quelpartis. Lulreola. 0574: 53, footnote quichua, Alouatta pidUata, 0724: 567 quichua, Coendou. 0276; 283 quichua. Marmosa, 0271: 43 quichua. Nasua, 0336: 248 quichua. Tamandua telradactyla. 1057: 371 radcliffei, Bfubalus} caffer. 0438: 13; 0454: 371; 0457: 464. fig. 95 ra(/«/ui, Soriculus. 0945: 429 rajah, Herpestes brachyurus, 0911: 134. 135 ra/a/i. A/».9. 0170:451.454 rafah, Petaurista nitida, 0563: 251 rajput. Cremmomvs medius, 0776: 241 ramosus, Citellus mongoUcus, 0612: 501 rapposa, Marmosa. 0271: 42 raptor. Pipislrellus. 0446: 387 raptorum. Funisciurus, 0398: 80 raptorum, Thryonomys swinderianus. 0949: 392 ralalina. Grisonella. 0917: 215 rattinus, Proechimys. 1047: 164 rattoides, Melomys. 0942: 263; 0958: 729 ratloides, Mesembriomvs hirsutus. KX)4: 296 r?ce5.v/ii-. Ctenomys talarum. 0674: 241 recifinus, Vampyrops, 0335: 192. footnote regina. Marmosa, 0266: 274 regina. Ochotona rufescens. 0670: 762 reginae. Hydromys chrysogaster. 0593: 789 reginae. Petaurus australis. 0968: 249 reguli. Petaurista mergulus, 1049: 22 regulus. Callicebus torquatus, 1058: 509. 510 regulus. Craseomys, 0536: 863 regulus. Pipistrellus. 0527: 470 rendalli. Vesperugo (Vesperus). 0071: 362, fig. resima. Macaco, 0601: 381 106 J. E. HILL retectus, Nannosciurus exilis, 0624: 387 rex. Anicanlhis. 0525: 304 rex. Conepattts. 0253: 278 rex. Meriones. 0193: 552 rex. Mus. (X)56: 157; (K)66: 480. pi. 22. figs. 4-5 rex. Oecomys. 0639: 5(M rex. Rhipidomys. 1070: 600 Rhahdomys. 0789: 69 Rhagomys. 0816: 192 Rheomys. 0509: 421 Rhinonax. 0837: 370 r/i/onu. Mu.i mHi«. 0602: 441; 06L5: 123 rhionis. Rhinosciurus leo. 0602: 440; 0615: 121 rhipidunis. Echimys. 1084: 291 Rhynchogale. 0154: 139 Rhynchomeles. 0888: 429. 430 Rhynchomys. 0197: 160 Rhynclumax. 0666: 49. 0679: 130 ncardulits. Phyllolis. 0854: 493 rickelti. Vespertilio (Leuconoe). 0168: 300 rid/cyi. Pipistrellus. 0259: 361 riggenbachi. Gerbillus. 0416: 301 rimator. Hylochoerus. 0502: 1; 0517: 2, fig. 1 rivalis. Embailonura monticola. 0747: 140 nva/ir. Plagumaj llar\aliisl. 0928: 618 roberti. Coendou. 0349: 63 rofecrtt. Microtus. 0508: 418 roberti, Oxymycterus. 0341: 530 roberti. Proechimys. 0341: 531 rohcrn, Rhipidomys. 0428: 5; 0430: 237 roberti. Sciurtts. 0422: 463: roberlsi. Gazella granti. 0413: 44; 0424: 119. figs. 10-11 rohinsoni. Nyciymene. 0460: 196 rohinsoni, Presbytis. 0625: 25; 0636: 635 robinsoni. Rhinosciurus. 0586: 104 robitstula. Tylonycteris. 0749: 227 robustulus. Melanomys. 0741: 243 robtLstiis. HeUophobius. 0503: 179 robustus. Petroaromits. 0837: 367 rogersi, Chalinolohtts, 0595: 150 TOgeri/, ,Mi«. 0553: 206 m/iui. Philetor. 0358: 220 romana. Taipa. 0392: 516 raw, Proechimys. 0283: 219 rosatia. ArvicanthLs dor satis. 0447: 414 rosatinda, Thomasomys. 1053: 347 rosenbergi. Artibeus (Dermanura ?). 0233: 545 ro.H(/a. Caiifl, 0805: 154 rosilla. Rhipidomys, 0450: 35 roszikac. Dipndillus campestris, 0582; 374 rollischildi. Coendou. 0379: 169; 0403: 41 rolhschildi. Dama. 0394: 136 rothschildi. Dorcopsulus. 0950: 672 rollischildi. Mallomys. 0250: 2 rolhschildi. Massoutiera. 0906: 1 1 roikschildi, Myospalax. 0667: 722 rollischildi. Pelrogale, 0437: 366 rolhschildi. Phalanger. 0264: 433 rothschildi, Poecilictis, 0880: 316 rothschildi. Uromys, 0682: 91 roitii. R/imo/op/iiiv a^J'i''"' "121: 923. pi. II. fig. 3 rovttmae. Plelrodromusj, 0221: 434 TOiv/fvi. Otomys. 0842: 209 ruatanica. Dasyprocta, 0338: 272 rubella, Murina huttoni. 0730: 440 ruhellus, Mungos paludinosus. 0581: 166 raftcv. Me/om.vi. 0942: 263; 0958: 7.30 rafter, MMrmo. 0801:639 rabct. .Sciurus sladeni, 0744: 197. 198 ruhicola. Melomys. KKM: 298 rubida. Tylonycteris. 0749: 228 (nomcn nudum. lapsus for Scotophiltts Id TylonyclerisJ fulvidus Blyth, 1859) rubida. Vandeleuria. 0744: 202 rubidior. Cephalophus rufilalus. 0540: 385 rubidits. Cephalophus, 0325: 89 rubidus. Peramys, 0273: 155 ruhrala, Dasyprocta, 0266: 273 ruhrata. Phascogale venusta. 0958: 739 ruckheih, Allactaga, 0735: 571 ra(/(/i. Herpestes. (M23: 465 ra^yrf/. Pronolagus. 0475: 23; 0483: 272. pi. 16. fig. 4 ruddi. Tachyorycles, 0614: 546 rurfd/, Thamnomys. 0584: 549 rudolfi, Procavia pumda, 0617: 202 ridfescens, Hesperomys. 0033: 250 ruficeps. Arciocebus, 0722: 387 rufigenis. Sminthopsis. 0942: 265; 0958: 7.39 ra^nu. Ga;e//u. 0615: 467. fig. 1 rufula. Hehgale undulata, 0617: 194 rufidus, .Slenomys. 0950: 669 Rupesles. 0960: 398 rupestris. Sciurus vulgaris, 0551; 410 rupicola, Gliriscus. 1019: 232 rusantis, Herpestes smithii, 0932: 24. 25 ru.\seltiana, Miatela, 0647: 4; 0649: 168 russulus. Nectomys. 0233: 547 rusticana. Felis ocreata. 1076: 319 rHKccj, Callicebus, 0998: 692 rutieri, Marmosa, 1(K)7: 536 ranc/ijora. Colohus. 0324: 45; 0325: 85 ruwenzorii. Talera. 0621: 5(K) sabaeus. Paraechinus niger, 0936: 143 sabanus. Hipposidcros. 0248: 243 5abaoi«. ,Miu. 0052: 269; (X)73: 233 .sabanus. Paradoxurus, 0599: 376 sabanus. Semnopilhecus. 0143: 2.30. pi. 7 sabulala. Lemniscomys griselda. 1065:385 sacana. Muslela, 0735: 566 sacana, Ochotona, 0735; 572 sacer. Erinaceus roumanicus. 0843: 212 sacer. Mus confuciamts, 0573: 6 M. R. O. THOMAS 107 sacramenti. Meriones. 0962: ?52 sacraria. Ocholona ihiheiana, 097K: 663 sacratus. Soriculus. (1647; 4; 0649: 165 sacrillus, Vampyrops linealus. 1001: 236 saevtis. Sorex shinio. 0551: 408 sagitla. Thalacomys. 0487: 426 sahamae. Chinchilluh. 0253: 280 saharae. Herpestes phoenicurus. 1024: 189 saianicus. Evolomvs glareolus, 0670: 759 saUnae. Lasiurus horealis. 0359: 238 satinia, Caviella australis. 0904: 447 salinarum, Felis. 0417: 239 sallarius. Ctenomys, 0699 639 salulans. Paraxerus ochraceus, 0605: 106 salvini. Heteromys, 0133: 331 samaricus, Nannosciurus, 0220: 1; 0263: 389, pi. 30. fig. 2 sannio. Cercopithecus palas. 0503: 173 sapientis, Uromys, 0371: 446 sarae. Lagidium. 1055: 639 sarae, Mazama. 1020: 581 saianicus. Sarcophihis, 0401: 289 saturaia, Viscaccia, 0541: 442 saturatus. Neclomys. 0233: 546 salurnus, Echimys. 1086: 409: savannarum. Canis cancrivorus, 0032: 146 savannarum. Sigmomys, 0332: 150 savamuus. Heliosdurtds punctatus. 0971: 521 saviU't. Bandicota. 0801: 641 scalops, Didelphys (Peramys). 0057: 158 scalops, Geomys. 0161: 437 Scapanulus. 0696: 396 scaphax, Uromys. 0717: 209; 0737: 321 schistacea. Ahrocoma. 0917: 216 schneideri. Hipposideros. 0451: 722 .vc/ivi'rtAJw/. Petrodromus, 0550: 298 ScumUus. 0732: 36; 0738: 416 sclaleri. Hesperomys (Rhipidomys), 0043: 152 sclateri. Hesperomys (Rhipidomys), A16: 1 (nomen nudum) 5c/mer/. Mvo,soreA. 0472: 10; 0479: 131 5c/aref/, Thryonomys. 0219: 1; 0221: 432, 0242: 937 Scleronycteris, 0697: 404 Sco/momyx. 0709: 408 5a;roec(w. 0317: 263 scotti, Myotis. 1061: 554 .?com. Tfhallomys}. 0996: 493. 494 scythicus. Arvicola lerrestris. 0735: 568 seabrae, Cistugo, 0693: 205 secatus, Taphozous theohaldi. 0766: 60 sechurae. Canis. 0281: 148 securus, Proechimys. 0350: 140 sefranus. Lepiis. 0723: 590 se frills, Jaculus jaculiis, 0906: 10 seiana, Ochotona curzoniae, 0938: 189 seianum. Rhinopoma muscatellum, 0716: 90 seimundi, Sciurus. 0602: 440; 0615: 117 semlikii. Sciurus rufobrachiurn, 0537: 120 semotus. Apodemus. 0569: 447 jfnesccnx, Crossarchus fasciatus. 0550: 291 5fne5fe/i.s, Heliosciurus gambianus. 0614: 544 i^rtf.v. Galictis barhara, 0280: 146 i'enex, Philander laniger. 0724: 573 5enf.v. Rhizomys, 0770: 313 seniculus. Paraechinus niger. 0936: 142 sericeus. Phalanger. 0548: 74 serrensis. Akodon. 0349: 61 sertonius, Proechimys albispinis. 0914: 141, 142 shanorum. Pipistrelhis. 0766: 29 shanorum. Ursus arctos. 0506: 17; 0521; 231, fig. 58 shanseius. Craseomys, 0585: 643 sharica. Procavia. 0543: 520 sharicus. Lycaon pictus. 0540: 375 5/mr/?f(. Colobus. 0352: 24; 0355: 118 sharpei. Raphiceros. 0212: 796. pi. 39 shurpei. Raphiceros. A44: 1 (nomen nudum) j/in/a, Mazama. 0715: 587 shenseius. Myospalax cansiis. 0647: 5; 0649: 178 sherrini. Nyctophdits. 0758: 495 sherrini. Uromys, 0965: 171 s/imto, 5orf.v. 0493: 19; 0496: 338 shiptoni. Grisonella. 1037: 311 shiptoni, Nanocavia, 1018: 419 shoae, Iclonyx capensis, 0525: 301 shorlridgei, Callosciurus sladeni. 0776: 225, 232 shortridgei. Chaerephon (Lophomops), 1040: 289 shorlridgei, Leggadilla, 0739: 30 shorlridgei, Mus. 0534: 765 shortridgei. Pelromyscus. 1040: 302 shortridgei. Rousettus. 0597: 19; 0607: 374 shortridgei. ThaUomys. 0996: 492 5//i>V/d. Vandeleuria. 0774: 202 sicarius. Myotis. O760: 608 siccatus. Tupaia helangeri, 0725: 243 siccatus. Aethomys namaquensis. 1040: 304 siccatus. Bassaricyon rnedius, 1064: 80 siccati4S. Herpestes fiavidens, 1003: 240 siebersi, Uromys. 0991: 422 sierrae, Agouti. 0478: 589 signala. Petrogale brachyotis. 1044:629 signalus. Funamhulus layardi, 1003:241 signalus. Protoxerus stangeri, 0616: 85 sikimaria. Ochotona. 0938: 191 silacea, Crocidura (Cr.}, 0195: 53 silaceus, Xeromys (?), 0197: 161 ; 0263: 391 , pi. 31 . fig. 1, pi. 35. figs. 11-12 sUhouettae. Coleura. 0762: 576. 578 simaUtrus, Pteropus hypomelanus. 0997: 592 simonsi, Coendou. 0350: 141 simonsi, Marmosa, 0276: 287 simonsi, /Veoc/orfori. 0351: 24; 0354: 115. pis. 8. 9. figs. 8-12 simonsi. Proechimys. 0299: 3(H) simo.wr« r'). 0242: 930 ,so/-c//a, Ochotona, 0592: 45; 0594: 982 soricoides. Rhynchomys. 0197: 160; 0263: 389. pi. 31. fig. 2. pi. 35. figs. 7,9 soudanicus, Canis anthus. 0408: 33; 0420: 295 soulla |sic|, Myosorex. A46: 2 (nomcn nudum. lapsus for sorella. 0242: 930) sowerhyi. Dipus. 0580: 307 spadiceus. Cynopterus, (K)84: 235 spalaciniLS, Tachvorxctcs, 0614: 547 spalax, Heliophohitis, 0634: 315 spatulaiiLS, Cervus. 0329: 54; 0330: unpaginated spegazzini. Akodon. 0226: 216 spencei. Tamiops. 0901: 503 spenceri. Antechinomvs, 0505: 331 spicatus. Mesomys ferrugineus, 1007: 535 spiculus, Erinaceus. 0540: 371 spinifex, Atelerix, 0833: 231 spinosus. Hesperomys (Calomys). (KI15: 105 splendens. Vulpes vulpes. 0389: 489 spoliatus. Glis glis. 0520: 220 sponsoria. Marmosa elegans. 0898: 186 sponsus. FunLwiurus, 0550: 292 spurrelli, Crocidura, 0635: 427 spurrelli, Eionvcteris, 0719: 271 squalorum, Miis albocinereus. 0534: 776 stalkeri. Funisciurus. 0460: 201 stalkeri. Myotis (Leitconoe), 0624: 384 stalkeri. SminthopsLs. 0525: 543 stalkeri. Uromys. 0460: 202 stannarius, Epimys, 0713: 482 steinbachi. Ctenomys, 0549: 164 ,«(f//a, £/Hmv5. 0657: 590 stellae. Zygodontomys, 0277: 380 Sfraomv.v. 0640: 507 stenotis. liipposideros. 0717: 206 stephanicus. Xerus rutilus. 0525: 301 stevensis, Atherurus, 1027: 505 stevensi, Sciurus, 0567: 246 Stictomys, 1002: 238 stigmosa, Ratufa gigantea, 0984: 86 stimulax. Mesomvs. 0658: 607 sitrlingi. Marmota. i)lll: 341 Stochomys. 1031: 174, 176 stolida, Cavia lichudii, 1047: 106 stolzmanni, Ichthyomys, 0132: 286:0134: 339. pis. 28, 29, figs. 1-6 stolzmanni, Oryzomys, 0169: 357 storeyi, Tachyoryctes, 0614: 547 .tfrar/iey/, Ar\icola, (KKI7: 332 stresemanni, Emballonura, 0730: 442 stresemanni, .Sciurwi notatus, 0714: 505 sturdeei. Pipistrelliis, 0749: 230 .v(ur(/. .Vodimvi. 0925: 537 styani, Ailurivi fulgens, 0384: 251 styani. Sciurus. 0156: 363 suahelica. Leggada tenella. 0634: 312 subcanuA. Pipistrelliis cevhinicus. 0766: 30 sublimis. Phvllotis. 0304: 467 sublineatus. Oryzomys. 0417: 240 subluteus. Alticola worthingtoni, 0735: 570 subluteus. Lepus swmhoei. 0592: 45; 0594: 979 M. R. O. THOMAS 109 subluteus. Oryzomys fiavicans. 0266: 268 subluleiis, Sciurus viualus. 0602: 440; 0615: 1 16 subrosea, Viscacfia, 0541: 442 Sudani, Taphozous, 0761: 561 sitdanicus, Ictonyx striatus, 0981: 254 suffusus. Akodon. 0417: 241 siiilla. Nesokia. 0553: 203 sultam. Pelrodramiis. 0219: 1:0221: 235 sumatrae, Rhinopoma, 0412: 497 sumalrana, Crossogale. 0899: 244; 0935; 113 superans, Oecomys, 0661: 250 superans, Vespertdio murimts. 0270: 770 superans, Vespertdio murinus. A49: 4 (nomen nudum) superus, Micronts calamorum, 0653: 27; 0664: 691 surdasler. Pedetes. 0368: 440 surdaster, Sylvilagus, 0326: 543 surdasler, Thaninomvs. 0584: 550 surdaster, Viierra zibetha, 1059: 46 Surdisorex, 0523: 223 surdus. Akodon. 0809: 2; 0892: 236, pi. 15, fig. 2 sushkini. Ochotona (Ogolona), 0999: 163 sumatrius. Herpestes brachvurus. 0911: 134 swalius. Gerbillus, 1019: 235 swalius, Herpestes cauiti, 1040: 292 swalius, Steatomys, 1040: 300 swaynei, Madoqua, 0159: 328 swaynei, Madoqua, A40: 1 (nomen nudum) swinhoei. Lepus, 0156: 364 swynnertoni, Petrodromus tetradactytus. 0837: 368 sybylla, Leggada hella, 0846: 484 sybylla, Petaurista. 0788: 423 s,v/i'ani«, Akodon. 0898: 184 sylvanus, Ctenomys, 0861: 155 sylvaticus. Rhtpidomvs, 0293: 272 5>'/ve.y/^r. Catlosciurus quinquestrtatus. 1046: 641 sylveslris. Glyphonyeteris. 0208: 302 sy/vesr™, Pogonomys. 0890: 534 Jv/vM, Croadura. 0529: 586 sylvia, Molossops lemmincki, 1001: 234 5>'/v«orf.v. 0464: 12:0468: 190 s>rm.v. Ochotona, 0653: 27; 0664: 692 s>iriuj, Jaculus laeulus, 0946; 296 s>'rius, Meriones, 0853: 268 tabanus, Spalacopus. 1021: 585 tttbaudius. Catlosciurus epomophorus. 0964: 1067 tacopius. Callosciurus epomophorus. 0893: 121 taczanowskii. Hesperomys (Rhipidornvs). (K)I5: 109 taedifer, Sciurus ignnenlris, 0410: 487 tatvana, Mustela (Lutreola), 0716: 91 lalarum, Ctenomys, 0254: 285 talaudium, Uromys, 0899: 248; 0935: 112 (a/fto(i, Crossarchus. 0540: 374 lalboti. Funisciurus leucosiigma, 0611: 478 lalpoides, Geurychus capensis, 0518: 166 Tamisciis, 0827: 33 tanganyikae. Funisciurus carruthersi, 0611: 477 tanganyikae, Tanu.scus vukanorurn. 0827: 36 tapajinus. Oecomys. 06(K): 378 taparius, Sciurus (UrosciurusI pyrrhtmotus. 1045: 635 lapetillus, Sylvilagus. 0705: 210 larabuli. Gerbillus pyramidum. 0367: 5 larquinius, Microtus (.Antelionn <) chinensis, 0683: 517 tartareus. Akaodon. 0861: 155 Taterillus. 0632: 222 taterona, Graomys. 1039: 320 ta.i(7/fl, He/iCM. 1027: 5(K1 laxinus. Conepatits inca, 1013: 286 laylori, Galeopterus. 0586: 102 taylori, Hesperomys {Vesperimus), 0039: 66 taylori, Petaurista. 0744: 205 tectiis. Oryzomys. 0336: 251 telibius, Callosciurus concolor, 0893: 121 lenaster. Epimys. 0786: 425 tenaster. Tupaia belangeri. 0820: 201 ffnf//a, Leggada, 0408: 33; 0420; 298 tenuipes, Neacomys spinosus. 0281: 153 «■«««, Bdeogale. 0581: 168 terrae-sanctae. Pslammomysj, 0364: 363, 364 /frim'. A/i« vociferans, 0613: 535 terutavensis, Sciurus concolar, 0613: 535 terutiis. Tragulus canescens, 0613; 536 lesludo. Lophiomys. 0471; 80 Thallomys. 0868: 141 Thallomyscus. 1043: 612 Thalpomys. 0800: 337. 339 thamin. Riicenus. 0829: 364 Thamnomys. 0537: 121 Thaptomys. 0800; 337, 339 theresa. Monodelphis. 0923; 441 thersites, Nasita. 0338; 271 thersites. Nyctinomtts, 0426: 634 Thetomys, 0641:606 thomsoni, Sciuropterus. 0294; 275 thyone. Vampyressa. 0609; 231 tibetanus, Cricetidus aticola. 0937; 180 riomi, Atherurus. 0586: 105 (ohu, Akodon. 0895: 178 tobagi. Marmosa, 0655: 515 tobagi. Zygodontomys brevicauda. 0293: 274 tolduco. Ctenomys. 0917: 218 tolteca. Felis yaguarondi. 0243: 41 tomesi. Hesperoptenus. 0492: 575 tonquinia. Melogale. 0939: 195 tonquinia. Tupaia belangeri. 1027: 497 lonlalis. l.agtdiiim. 0917; 219 foppmi. Callicebus. 0731; 480; 0847: 9. pi tordayi, Petrodromus. 0616: 83 Ior(;He.s. Microxus. 0809: 3; 0892: 239, pi. 15, fig. 4 torrentium. Protoxerus stangeri, 0973: 529 torvus, Paradoxurus, 0599: 375 rosfle, P/elauristal lleucogenys] . 0476: 488, 490 no J. E. HILL toxopei, Murina, 0969: 254 tramatus. PipistreUus coromandtvi. 1079: 144 tramiiius. Rattus mordax. 0942: 262; 0958: 727 iranscaspiae . Ellohiits talpinus, 0680: 405 irichotis. Belomys. 0560: 7 irichutis, Ichlhyomys. 0227: 220 trichurus. Conepatus tropicalis, 0478: 585 trinitalLs. Dtdelphis {Philander), 0161: 438 trinitatis. Galictis barbara, 0280: 148 tripoliianus. Psammomys. 0367: 9 iripoliits, Meriones pallidiis, 0853: 265 trislrami, Meriones, 0102: 148 iriton. Leggada, 0614: 548 tropicalis, Otomys irroratiis, 0386: 314 tropicalis, Pedeles typicits, 1019: 241 tropicius, Oryzomys ralticeps. 1011: 143 trumbulli, Promops. 0312: 190 tsuensis. Miistela melampiis, 0214: 161 tuareg. Meriones schousboei, 1024: 193 tuconax, Ctenomys. 1021:583 tucumana. Viscaccia. 0541: 444 tucttmanus. Cerdocyon. 0903: 382 tucumanus. Ctenomys. 0299: 301 tucumamis. Dasypus sexcinctiis, 0549: 165, 166 tucumanus. Phyllolis darwini. 0697: 408 tullbergi. Mus. 0151: 205 tunetae, Eliomys lerotinus, 04 11: 495 tunneyi. Mus, 0436: 223 Typomys, 0650: 382 ucayali, Cacajao rubicundus. 1083: 252 ultimiLs, Euneomvs. 0779: 185 umhrata. Cavia tschudii. 0805: 157 umbrata. Leggada minutoides. 1)616: 86 umhraius. Acomys louisae. 0990: 174 umbratus. Cttellus mongolicus. 0592: 44, 0594: 970 umbratus. Myslax ursulus. 0943: 265 umbratus. Steatomys swalius. 1040: 301 umbriceps, Rhizomys. 0802: 445 umbrosa, Dobsonia viridis. 0624: 384 umbrosus. Gfalagoj cfrassicaudatusj. 0814: 49 underwoodi. Hylonyctens. 04(K): 286. 287 underwoodi. Rheomvs, 0509: 421. 422 ursulus, Ellobius fu.sciceps, 0680: 403 unyori. Mils hypoxanthus, 0421: 343 utibilis, Ctenomys sylvanus, 0873: !93 vaccarum. Abrocoma, 0917: 217 vaa-urwm. Phyllolis. 0697: 408 vacillalor. Proechimys. 0410: 490 vagans, Erinaceus algirus. 0315: 38 valenciae, Sylvilagus. 0743: 413 va/i, CtenodactyliLs. 0366: 39; 0367: 1 1 vallesius, Rattus culmorum, 0920: 426 vallinus. Gerbillus. 0840: 148 vanheurni, Dorcopsis, 0942: 264; 0958: 733 varennei. Chimmarogale, 1059: 45 rar/fl. Helogale. 0352: 24; 0355: 1 19 iarm«/. Hippotragus niger. 0780: 1 ; 0784: 3(M). fig. 1 varilla. Crocidura iPachyura), 0195: 54 varilliLs. Gunomys. 0553: 205 vanm. /U'0(/r^«. 0350: 134 varius, Gunomys, 0553: 204: vrt55a/i. /.e/7m. 0510: 425 vu/e,s. P<)^(>nrjmys. 0589: 495 ve/(7/rt. Rhogeessa, 0407: 383 vehmnt4s. Mus. 0019: 415. fig. 4 vrna^^m, Chalinolobus gouldi. 0582: 372 venester. Signiomvs. 0743: 412 venezuelae. Caluromys trinitatis, 0410: 493 venezuelae. Rhipidomys, 0208: 303 venilla, Vampyressa, 1{M)7: 523 venningi, Petaurista lylei, 0739: 27 vrfi/ww. Glironia. 0674: 240 v'c«m7a, Marrnosa elegans. 0375: 159, 160 vc/ijww. Phascogale lorentzi. 0920: 358 venustula, Petrogale. 1044; 628 v'en«.v/ii,v. Arvicanlhis strialus, 0654: 461 vr/J«J/iw. Orvromv5 T-*). 0169: 359 venustus, Petrodromus. 0421: 339 venustiLs. Rhipidomvs. 0281: 152 venustiis. Thamnomys, 0537: 122 verae-crucis. Lepus, 0082: 74, pL 7 verax, Marrnosa. 0907: 520 verecimii/w. Mus, 0458: 598 vermicultis. Chrysochloris, 0616: 84 vernula, Cfncetulusj nugratorius, 0811: 453 versicolor, Scntrus. 0301: 385 (preoccupied by Zimmerman, 1777, renamed inconstans Osgood. 1921. J. Mammal. 2:40) versicolor. Tragulus. 0629: 535 versteegi, Pseudochirus, 0958: 735 versurae. Tupaia belangeri. 0945: 428 vestttus. Akodon (Chelemys). 0417: 242 vestitus. Coendou, 0276: 284 vestitus. Oryzomys, 0262: 454 vetula, Helogale. 0868: 724 vexillaris, Psammomys, 1025: 198 viator. Acomys. 0367: 10 viator, Cricetomys gambianus. 0447: 413 viator. Epimys jacksoni, 0654: 461 viatorum, Lagidium, 0917: 220 vicina. Leggada bclla. 0616: 88 i'(r;>iw.v. ZapiL\ (Eozapus) setchuaniLS, 0696: 402 victoriae, Genetta. 0324: 45; 0325: 87. pL 15 victoriae. Lepus. 0145: 268 victorina, Helogale. 0352; 24; 0355: 120 victits. Oryzomys. 0244: 178 vi^cn-v, fWu wiedii. 0459: 192 v'/V>/cw. Rradypus. 0808: 357 viperinus. Ctenomys. 1041: 605 i7>j?r>. Diclidurus, 0406; 377 i7>g/>. Tomeutes mearsi, 0788; 419, 421 y/voj;. Dipodilhvi. 0367: 8 M. R. O. THOMAS 111 vizcaccia. Nyctimene. 0729: 436 vizier. Ochotona rufescens. 0670; 762 vocalor. Jaiuliis luftiisi. 0922: 441 viilairti, Aepontys, 0262: 452 vutcani. Lagidittm, 0860: 133 vulcaniiLS, Pteropus hypomelanus, 0756; 388 viilcanius, Sciurus ritwenzorii. 0611; 476 vukitnoriim, Tatnisctts. 0827; 35 vulturna. Ochotona rufescenx, 0871; 937 vulturntis, Dendromus {Poemys) nignfrons. 0794: 242 vulturnus. Eptesicits caurinus, 0730; 440 vuhiirnits, Jacultts jacitliis, 0713; 485 vuliurniis, Neotomys, 0927; 612 vulturnus, Pogonomys forbesi, 0890: 535 walkcn. Cephalophus. 0512: 1. 0526: 464, pi. 35 Katkeri. Nvctophthis. 0108; 406 walli. Eplesicus. 0864: 746 nartli. Bhirindttt. 0752; 336 wardi, Cervictipru reduncu, 0300: 304 wardi, Microtus (Antelioniys), 0683; 516 wardi. Ptecotus. 0646; 209 wcirdi. Rhizomys. 0901; 504 wardi. Sorex, 0647: 3; 0649; 165 warreni. Petrodrotnus tetradactytus, 0837; 364 warreni. Proechimys. 0484: 312 watsoni. Artibeus. 0326: 542 watsoni, Tylomys. 0276: 278 wavrini. Oryzomys. 0895: 177 welki. Rattus. 0933: 26 weynsi. Cephalophus. 0344; 15. pi. 6 whitukeri. Lepus. 0366; 39; 0367: 12, pi. ! whitehead!. Chrotomys. 0197; 161; 0263; 391, pis. 32, 35, figs. 8-9 whitehead!. Harpyionycteris. 0206; 244; 0263: 384, pi. 30, fig. 1, pi. 35, figs. 1-4 whileheadi. Kerivuula. 0171: 460 whileheadi. Mus, 0170; 452, 457 whileheadi. Sciurus. 0051; 127:0073: 231, pi. 24 whitesidei. Cercopithecus ascanius, 0614: 542 whytei. Georychus. 0219; 1; 0221: 432; 0242: 937 whytei. Lepus. 0154; 142 wilkmsi. Petrogale. 1033: 185 willianui. AUactaga. 0228: 309 wilsoni, Acomys. 0112: 22 wilsoni. Malacomys. 0792: 238 wintimi. Laepholis. 0323: 460 wilherbyi. Mus sylvaluiis. 0389: 490 wolffsohni. Phyilotis. 0350: 131 wolffsohni. Vi.icaccia. 054 1 : 440 wollasloni. Hipposideros. 0717: 205:0737: 318 wollastoni. Ochotona. 0937: 184 woodfordi. Nesonycteris. (K)41: 147: 0044: 324, figs. 2-3, pi. 26; (K166: 476 woodfordi. Nesonycteris. A 17: 1 (nomen nudum) woodfordi, Pteropus. 0056: 156; 0066: 472, pi. 20, fig. l,pl. 21, fig. 1 woodi. Scotoecus. 0806: 280 woodwardi. Laomys. 0598: 373 woodwardi. Macropus robustus. 0343: 395 woodwardi. Mus. 0582: 374 woo.mami. Ellobius. 0495; 23; 0498: 526 woosnami. Lophuromys. 0519: 146 wroughtoni. Arvicanthis. 0616; 85 wroughtoni. Dacnomys. 0945: 430 wroughtoni. Nvctinomus. 0711; 87, 2 figs. wroughtoni, Scotophilus, 0230; 275 xanthella, Felis ochreata. 1040; 291 xanthinus. Dasypterus ega, 0233: 544 xanthoeolus. Oryzomys, 0169: 354 xanti. Lepus californicus. 0243: 45 Xeromys, 0075; 248 yakai, Micrornys geisha. 0496: 362 youngi. Rallus. 1051: 309 yucataniae. Coendou mexicanus. 0383: 249 yulei. Funisciurus. 0352: 24; 0355: 120 yunalis. Pfagumaj Ifarvatusj. 0928: 617 yunalis. Tupaia belangeri. 0725: 244 yungimus. Oryzomys. 0350; 130 vungarum. Dasvprocta variegata. 0639: 505 zaphiri. Lophuromys. 0525: 304 zappeyt, Ochotona. 0938: 192 Zetis. 0567: 245 zetta. Mazama. 0715; 586 zevlanicus. Herpestes smithii. 0932: 24 zurUla. Conepatus. 0283: 217 zorrida. Pseudatopex. 0903: 383 zuluensis. Lycaon pictus. 0452: 98, footnote zuluensis. Mus coucha. 0483: 268 zuluensi.s. Njesotragusl livingstonianus, 0267; 317 Zyzomys. 0598; 372 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks are due to the sometime Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History), Mr. J. F. Peake, who has provided facilities that have enabled me to carry out and complete this essay into the past, and to the Head of Library Services, Mr. R. E. R. Banks, who has made available the resources of the library in his charge, and who has 112 J. E. HIIL been a constant source of encouragement. Mr. R. A. Fish. Librarian at the Zoological Society of London was able tt) produce copies of some of the Society's less well known publications. The staff of the Mammal Section at the Museum have as always extended numerous courtesies to an erstwhile colleague, and I am grateful also to my wife for her support and especially for the arrangement of the inde.x. APPENDIX 1 Unofficial workers or volunteers during Thomas' service as Assistant in charge of mammals at the British Museum (Natural History). K. Andersen ('The Viking') G. Barrett-Hamilton Dorothea M. Bate J. L. Bonhote Winifred Davison W. de Winton D. G, Elliot T. B. Fry ('Brother Tom') M A C Hinton R. Lvdekker G. S. Miller R. I. Pocock Kathleen V. Rylcy li. Schwann Jane St. Leger R. C. Wroughton APPENDIX 2 Mammals named after Oldfield Thomas. Microgate thomasi Forsyth Major. 1896 Sorex ihomasi Ogne\ , 1921 Btarina ihomasi Merriam. 1897 Crocidura thomasi Sowcrby. 1917 Rhinolophus thomasi Andersen. 1905 Lonchophylla ihomasi J. A. Allen. 1904 Uroderma thomasi Andersen. 1906 Myolis thomasi Cabrera. 1901 Mimetilhts ihomasi Hinton. 1920 Tadarida thomasi Wroughton, 1919 Opotemur thomasi Forsyth Major. 1894 Gala^o iHemigalago) thomasi Elliot, 1907 Midas thomasi Goeldi, 1907 Lagothrix thomasi Elliot, 1909 Cercopithecus thomasi Matschic, 1905 Ursus ornaliis thomasi llornaday, 1911 Lyncodon patagimicus thomasi Cabrera, 1928 Crocula thomasi Cabrera, 1911 Felis pajeros thomasi I.onnberg, 191.1 Felis (Microfelis) nigripes thomasi Shortridge. 1931 Sciuri4s ihomasi Nelson. 1899 Funamhulids thomasi Wroughton & Davison, 1919 Pelaiirisla thomasi Hose. I9(K) Pelaunsta leucogcnys ihomasi Kiiroda & Mori, 1923 (renamed Pctaiinsla leucogenvs hinloni Mori. 1923) Oldfieldthomasia Ameghino. 1901 Procavia thomasi Neumann, 1901 Odocoik'us thomasi Merriam. 1898 Cephatophus thomasi Jcntink. 1901 Cobus ihomasi Sclater. 1896 Rhymhotragus thomasi Neumann. 1905 Thomasomys Coucs. 1884 PcmmvsciLS iMcgadontomys) thomasi Merriam. 1898 Zygodontomys thomasi i . A. Allen. 19(11 Rheomys ihomasi Dickey. 1928 l.ophiomvs ihomasi Heller. 1912 Otomys thomasi Osgood .1910 Microtus (Pilvm\'s) thomasi Barrett-Hamilton. 1903 Mus thomasi de Winton, 1897 Salpingotus thomasi Vinogradov, 1928 Mesomys thomasi Ihering, 1897 M. R. O. THOMAS 113 REFERENCES Andersen, K. 1412. Cuhitogue of the Chiroplera in the collection of the lirilisb Museum. 2nil ed. I. Megtichiropterii. London: British Museum (Natural History). Hinton, M.A.C. 1929 Mr. M. R. Oldficld Thomas. Nature. London 124 (31 16): 101-102. Martin Duncan, F. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859 - 1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830 - 1858, compiled by the late F. H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833 - 1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P. Z. S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71-84. Miller, G. S. 1912. Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe. London: British Museum (Natural History). 1915. The jaw of Piltdown Man. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 65 ( 12) : 1-31 , 5 pis. 1918. The Piltdown jaw. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Washington I : 25-52, 4 pis. P|ocock], R.I. 1930. Obituary notice of Michael Rogers Oldficld Thomas. (With portrait). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 106 : i-v, I pi. Seba, A. 1734. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificio- sissimus expressio, per univcrsam physices historiam .... Amsterdam. wm "^ "^ Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnologta Editor: Juan Jos^ Saldafia (University of Mexico) Quipu (Latin American Journal of History of Science and Technology), is devoted to the history of science and tech- nology in Latin America. Founded in 1984. it is published three times a year. Contributions are welcome and articles are accepted in Spanish, Enghsh, Portuguese and French. 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Ser.) 18(2): 115-143 IsMcd 24 November 1 W(l The Challenger Expedition I ^niSH museu (1872-1876), Henry Bowman (pjatukal H8ST0R Brady (1835-1891) and the "6 DEC 1990 Challenger Foraminifera -^ o/i y 8 leRA? ROBERT W YNN JONES l Chertsey Road. Sunhiiry-on-Thames, Middlesex, HI' Research Centre. TWI6 7LN CONTENTS Introduction 115 The Challenger Expedition ( 1872-1876) 116 Prelude to the Expedition 116 Aims of the Expedition 122 Dcep-Sea Sediments 1 23 Oceanic Circulation 1 24 Life in the Deep Sea 1 25 Achievements of the Expedition 1 26 'Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger' 128 Henry Bowman Brady (1835-1891) 128 Brady Library 133 Brady Family Photograph Album 134 The Challenger Foraminifera 135 Foraminiferal Slides 135 Raw Material 136 Planned Revision to the Taxonomy of the Challenger Foraminifera . . . 138 Acknowledgements 139 Cited References 140 INTRODUCTION It is now over a hundred years since the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) and the subsequent publication of the report on the Challenger foraminifera by Henry Bowman Brady (1884); indeed, 1991 marks the centenary of Brady's death. So why the interest? The answer is two-fold but simple. Firstly, because the Challenger expedition fundamentally and significantly advanced numerous fields in the earth, life and ocean sciences, and indeed has been described as representing 'the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated geographical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries" (Linkiater, 1972). It also heralded the dawn of a new, modern, multi-disciplinary era of oceanography, such that its significance may be justly compared with that of the voyage of the Beagle (made famous by Charles Darwin) in other areas of scientific interest and endeavour. 116 R. W. JONES Secondly, because Brady's work on the Challenger foraminifera detailed for the first time the dominant microfaunal element in the largest biotope on the face of the earth — the abyssal plains of the deep sea — until shortly beforehand thought to be incapable of sustaining life. The Challenger Report (Brady. 1884) features 915 (15% of the total number of extant) species belonging to 368 (44% of the total number of extant) genera, including the type-species of 284 genera (34%). The comprehensiveness and attention to detail exhibited in this work is such that it remains the most famous of the classic monographs of foraminiferal studies and the most often cited. Also, of all the collections in the British Museum (Natural History), none is more important or more frequently consulted than the Challenger coWecUon. This paper consists chiefly of historical notes on the Challenger expedition, bio- graphical notes on H. B. Brady and curatorial notes on the Challenger foraminifera. The concluding part outlines plans for a taxonomic revision of the Challenger foraminifera. THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION (1872-1876) Prelude to the Expedition The reasoning behind the commissioning of the Challenger expedition is best understood in its historical context. Britain in the latter half of the last century was at her mightiest as an imperial power. She was above all a maritime power, proud of her naval achievements at war and in peace-time. When the news of impending American and German voyages of scientific exploration broke in London in 1871. William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885) urged prompt action to maintain Britain's leading position in marine science. In an address to the Royal Institution and later in a letter to G. G. Stokes (Secretary of the Royal Society, of which Carpenter was President). Carpenter suggested the draughting and submission to parliament of a joint plan for a circumnavigation of the globe which would take the concepts and techniques developed and pioneered on the North-East Atlantic voyages of the Lightning ( 1868) and Porcupine (1869. 1870) and put them to work on the oceans of the world. In further correspondence with George Goschen (First Lord of the Admiralty), Carpenter received assurances that the government would give favourable consideration to such a proposal. Carpenter was a remarkable man who held a number of honorary positions and titles and was at various times Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at the Bristol Medical School, Lecturer on Physiology at the London Hospital, Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution and Professor of Forensic Medicine at University College, London and Registrar of the University of London. In the words of the Dictionary of National Biography (Lee. 1898), he was "... a man of no ordinary mental grasp and range of study . . .' and '. . . one of the last examples of an almost universal naturalist . . .'. He published variously on physiology, behavioural psychology, evolu- tionary theory (a deeply religious man who played the organ at the Unitarian Church in Hampstead, he was a rather reluctant ally of Darwin) and microscopy, always in a lucid and often ratiocinative style. He was a particular authority on oceanography, marine biology and foraminiferology (see, for instance. Carpenter, 1862. 1883; Murray. 1971. 1981, 1989; Murray & Taplin. 1984a-b). Once Carpenter's circumnavigation plan had been tacitly approved by the Admiralty, and the approval communicated to the Royal Society, a committee was set up under the auspices of that august body which comprised Carpenter himself, J. D. Hooker. THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 117 J,''l,. .^-tvl,^, '},.'&' .«<>^Cj.v. X\{.h .V ,,-;.jd„ .''!.., 1 ... ':' iv! J ;>r«s.^ .5 ^1^.^ '5^ Plate I Top left:Carpenter Top right: Hooker Bottom left: Huxley Bottom right: Jeffreys. From the Brady Family Photograph Album. Reproduced by kmd permission of Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Libraries & Arts. 118 R. W. JONES mm Plate 2 Top: H M.S. Challenger in starboard view with funnel lowered. Middle: Plans for her refit Bollom: Port view with funnel raised. Sydney approaches. June 1874. Reproduced by kind permission of the trustees of the National Maritime Museum, (ireenwich THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 1 1 9 T. H. Huxley, J. G. Jeffreys (see Plate 1), Captain Richards. Professor Charles Wyville Thomson and Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin). On the recommendation of these eminent personages, the Council of the Royal Society made a formal request to the government to send out an expedition to undertake a scientific study of the oceans. The request was granted in April, 1872, and preparations for departure began immediately. The organisation of the voyage (Burstyn, 1968, 1972) proceeded remarkably swiftly and efficiently, due doubtless in part to previous experience in similar ventures but probably also in no small measure to political factors (it is noteworthy that Carpenter had social contacts with the then Prime Minister Gladstone). A suitable vessel, H.M.S. Challenger (Rice, 1986; Plate 2) was chosen in the summer of 1872, and a schedule for her voyage drawn up for which the Navy Hydrographer G. H. Richards was largely responsible. Challenger was a 226', 1462-ton (builder's measure- ment) or 23()6-ton (displacement) 'Pearl" class steam-assisted screw corvette. Her engines were nominally of 400 h.p. but capable of 1234 h.p., and she also carried 16000 square feet of sail. She had been built at Woolwich in 1858 and had seen naval service off the Americas and later in Australasia before returning to England in 1871. Preparatory to what was to become her most famous voyage, she was fitted out at Sheerness, where all but two of her twenty-two cannon were removed to make way for a dredging platform over the upper deck forward of the main mast, extra laboratories, work-rooms and storage space. The Aberdonian Captain (later Rear-Admiral Sir) George Strong Nares (1829-1915) was chosen by the Admiralty to take the helm. Under him were some score of officers and crew (see Plate 3), including Paymaster R. R. A. Richards, Lieutenant P. Aldrich, Lieutenant A. Balfour, Sub-Lieutenant Campbell and Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Swire, all of whom kept journals (Swire's being memorable for some less than reverential references to Wyville Thomson's appearance and manner!) Nares left Challenger in 1874 to lead the Alerl and Discovery Arctic expedition, and was replaced by Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. Aldrich left with him and was replaced by a Lieutenant A. Carpenter. Wyville Thomson (see Plate 3) was appointed by the Royal Society as head of the civilian scientific team. Carpenter at 59 having decided he was too old to put to sea again. He was to be assisted on board by secretary and ship's artist John James Wild, chemist John Young Buchanan (see Plate 3) and three naturalists, Henry Nottidge Moseley, Rudolph von Willemoes-Suhm (whose promising career was cut short when he died on board Challenger) and John Murray. Wyville Thomson was born in 1830 at Linlithgow in Scotland and received his early education at Merchiston Castle School. He matriculated at the age of sixteen as a student of Medicine at Edinburgh University, where he seems largely to have pleased himself in the choice of lectures he attended, taking in such subjects as zoology, botany and geology; he was also active in his role as Secretary of the Royal Physical Society. He gave up his medical studies in 1850 on the grounds of ill health and embarked instead on a career in natural science, succeeding to the posts of Lecturer in Botany at King's College, Aberdeen in 1850, Professor of Botany at Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1851, Professor of Natural History at Queen's College, Cork in 1853, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at Queen's College, Belfast in 1854, Professor of Zoology and Botany at Belfast in 1860 and Allman Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University in 1870. He was reputedly a delightful and instructive lecturer on a variety of scientific subjects, speaking without notes but with constant reference to the profusive array of specimens on his table. Wyville Thomson was, with Carpenter, instrumental in setting up the Lightning and Porcupine expeditions, the results of which were published in his book The Depths of the Sea (Wyville Thomson, 1873). He was widely recognised on account of this work as an active instigator and leading spirit of new and successful investigations. It was natural 120 R. W. JONES -# Plate 3 Top left: The crew of H M.S. Chiillcnf;er. Slaniliiif; (left lo right): Balfour. Buchanan, Willcmoes- Suhm, Aldrich, Ass. Engineer W. A. Howlelt, Wild, Swire, Ass. Paymaster J. Hynes, Moseley, Sub.-l.ieul. A. Channer, Richards. Sub.-Lieul. H. H. Harslon. Murray, Lieut. A. C. Bromley Sealed (left lo ri);hl): ("dr. J. F 1.. P. Maclear, Surgeon (i. Maclean, Nav. Sub.-l.ieul. A. Havergal. Wyvillc Thomson, l^ngineer W, J, .1. Spry. Nares, Staff Surgeon A. Crosby, l.ieut. G. R. Bethel, unknown Bultnm left: Pen and wash sketch by l-li/abelh Gulland showing Wyville Thomson (left) and Buchanan (right) at work on board (hallrnurr Right: Original drawing made by Wild on board Challcnfier ol the planklonic foraminifer lllnhii^vrina hiilloulfs d'Orbigny, subsequently used in the Challenf;er Report (Brady, 1XX4; PI. 77). Signed bottom left Reproduced by kmd permission of Edinburgh University Library. THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 121 .V *i -Ml ■f/J'%. ,;f^^' MOO therefore that he should be appointed as chief naturalist on the Challenger expedition. It is unfortunate that his heahh broke down in the wake of the expedition and that he did not have the freedom to finish his original research on the Challenger crinoids and sponges, having to concentrate instead on his administrative responsibilities. None- theless he received international recognition for his career on the Challenger, which he wrote up in the form of the scholarly and erudite book The Voyage of the Challenger . . . (Wyville Thomson, 1877). For instance, he received a Royal Society Gold Medal in 1876 (having already acceded to the fellowship of that institution in 1869) and was made a Knight of the British Empire in 1876 and a Knight of the Polar Star (an honorary title bestowed at the University of Uppsala on the occasion of its quatercentenary celebra- tions) in 1877. He died in 1882, wherepon a memorial window was installed in the Linlithgow Cathedral and a bust in Edinburgh University. Further details of his life are given by Herdman (1923). Moseley was a no less able or enthusiastic fellow, of whom it was once said that 'you had only to put him down on a hillside with a piece of string and an old nail, and in an hour or two he would have discovered some natural object of surpassing interest' (Herdman, 1923). He wrote up his experiences on board Challenger in the lively and 122 R- W. JONES enjoyable book Notes by a Naturalist . . . (Moseley, 1879). the enduring popularity of which is evident from the fact that it was reprinted as recently as 1944 in a series entitled Live Books Resurreciedl He went on from his Challenger exploits to become a Fellow of the Royal Society and Linacre Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. Murray (see, for instance, Herdman, 1923 & Boog Watson, 1967) was Canadian-bom but of Scots ancestry. He registered as a medical student at Edinburgh University, where one of his fellow students, Robert Louis Stevenson, came to criticise him for failing to pursue his studies in orderly, purposive and profitable fashion'. Rather like Wyville Thomson before him. he attended lectures not strictly connected with his course-work, for instance on chemistry, natural history, literature, law and theology. He spent his summer vacations indulging his interests in marine biology and oceanography in dredging trips off the Scottish coasts (on one such occasion meeting Sir William Thomson on Skye) and had enterprisingly enrolled as a surgeon aboard the whaler Jan Mayen in 1868, spending 7 months in the Arctic. Enough was known of the rare talent of this remarkable man even by 1872, when he was only 31, that he was appointed to the prestigious post of Challenger naturalist (albeit as a replacement for William Stirling, who had resigned his appointment) on the recommendation of the eminent Edinburgh University physicist Professor Peter Guthrie Tait. He is acknowledged as the "father of modern oceanography" on account of his many achievements in the wake of the Challenger cruise. He went on to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896 and was knighted in 1898. By December, 1872, the scientists and crew were assembled and all the necessary equipment was on board. Most of the equipment had been tried and tested on earlier voyages. Nets, trawls and dredges were to be put out on hempen lines. Temperature measurements were to be taken with Miller-Casella thermometers (appropriately compensated for pressure), though some Siemen's and Johnson's instruments were also taken (as was Siemen's photometric apparatus). Intermediate depth water samples were to be collected by a stopcock water bottle designed by Buchanan and deep water samples by a slip water bottle used by the German North Sea expedition. Bottom sediment samples were to be brought up from the sea floor using a Hydra sounding tube, modified in 1873 by Lieutenant C. W. Baillie. Only Sir William Thomson's sounding device, comprising piano-wire wound around a drum, was an unknown quantity. This had proved successful in trials aboard the Lalla Rookh in comparatively shallow water, but when it was tried aboard Challenger its drum collapsed; hence, depth measurements aboard Challenger came to be taken with hempen lines and are inaccurate. Many of the instruments used aboard Challenger arc figured by McConnell (1981). Challenger finally set sail from Portsmouth on 21 December 1872. Her three-and-a- half year long voyage covered some 68890 nautical miles and involved sampling at 362 stations, besides coaling stops or more protracted periods ashore at a great many ports- of-call (at many of which her crew attended or organised lavish social functions). She returned to Spithead on 24 May 1876, and was broken up at Chatham in 1921. Only her figurehead survives to this day, outside the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences in Wormley, Surrey. Aims of the Expedition Challenger was confidently expected to bring back the answers to all the questions posed by earlier studies of the North-East Atlantic. These were concerned largely with the nature and distribution of bottom sediments, with problems of oceanic circulation and with the very existence of life itself in the deepest parts of the oceans. THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 123 Deep-Sea Sediments With regard to the nature of bottom sediments, important new discoveries were made almost from the outset of the voyage. The first samples recovered from the sea bed proved, as expected, to be of pale grey 'Globigerina ooze'. It had been predicted that this would cover the entire sea floor. However, as the cruise progressed westward on the leg from Teneriffe to the West Indies and into ever deeper waters, the nature of the recovered sediments was observed gradually to change. They became darker and darker in colour, and upon microscopical examination proved to comprise fewer and fewer foraminiferal remains. On 18 February 1873, deep-water samples from Station 3 (24 deg. 45'N; 20 deg., 14'W) were observed to contain "a number of very peculiar black oval bodies about an inch long". These were first thought to be fossils or lumps of pitch, but Buchanan's chemical analyses showed them to be composed of almost pure manganese peroxide. They were the first recorded examples of what we now term manganese nodules. On 26 February 1873. a sample brought up from 3150fm. proved to comprise, in Wyville Thomson's words 'a perfectly smooth red clay, containing scarcely a trace of organic matter'. Wyville Thomson's initial surmise was that this would turn out to be a local phenomenon. This seemed to be borne out when, from the shallower Dolphin Rise, more 'Globigerina ooze' was recovered. However, the passage into the deeper waters of the Western Atlantic again saw clay return as the dominant substrate. The widespread distribution of clay on the sea floor was confirmed on the leg between the West Indies by way of the Puerto Rico Trench to Bermuda. This necessitated a reconsideration by Wyville Thomson of its significance. He came to regard it as typical of deep areas, supposing these areas to be too deep to sustain the 'Globigerinae' that made up shallower sediments. As Murray had by this time shown that 'Globigcrinae were planktonic organisms ubiquitous in surface waters and raining down upon the whole sea floor upon death, a problem arose. What could account for their absence in deep areas? Close inspection of samples from progressively deeper waters showed a progressive disappearance not only of foraminifera but also of all other calcareous organisms. Wyville Thomson came to the conclusion that a chemical reaction was removing calcium carbonate at depth and that the product of this reaction was clay. Buchanan invoked carbonic acid as responsible for the carbonate dissolution, and modelled the reaction in his laboratory. The 'snow line' below which calcite passes into solution was first described by Murray and the Belgian Abbe Renard. It was with this that the modem idea of the calcite compensation depth was conceived, though it was not until the latter half of this century that it was named as such and fully quantified. In 1875 Challenger set out into the Pacific for the first time, following the American U.S.S. Tiiscarora and the German S.S. Gazelle. The combined efforts of all three vessels showed this ocean to differ markedly from all others, not only in terms of its greater areal extent but also in terms of its greater depth. By virtue of the latter feature, it was found also to comprise proportionately larger areas underlain by clay. Here, though, the clay was associated with larger mineral particles. This led Murray to question Wyville Thomson's theory that the clay represented the residue derived from dissolution of 'Globigerina ooze'. Murray came to favour a volcanic origin for the clay, citing as evidence the proximity of numerous volcanic centres (the "Pacific ring of fire') and the relative ease with which their products could be transported into deep water. Militating somewhat against this was the associated occurrence of manganese nodules of apparently concretionary habit. Murray ascribed the origin of these nodules to volcanism also, while Buchanan had by this time come to favour mineralisation of organic remains as the most likely mechanism for their formation. Later, the French geologist Dieulafait hypothesised that they originated by precipitation from sea water at the surface following 124 R. W. JONES a reaction between salt water and the atmosphere. Even to this day. their precise origin remains somewhat problematic. Oceanic Circulation In 1873. on the leg between Bermuda and Halifax, Nova Scotia, a detour was made to enable Challenger to study the Gulf Stream. This had first been described by the sixteenth-century explorer Ponce de Leon, following a voyage from Puerto Rico to Teneriffe which crossed what is now termed the Florida Current in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral. Conjectures about its nature were published by Peter Marytr of Anghrera also in the sixteenth century, and the line of demarcation between warm and cold water masses was first recorded by Lescarbot in the seventeenth. Cold water eddies were known by 1810, and there had been a great deal of subsequent research done by the U.S. Coast Survey: a synthesis of data had been published in 1868. Serial temperature measurements made by the Challenger crew essentially confirmed what had been observed earlier, namely that there was a relatively shallow body of warm water forming the current and a deeper body of cool water underlying it and rising to the surface at its western flank. Velocity measurements were made both at the surface and at depth on the whole of the ensuing equatorial Atlantic leg in order to ascertain whether there was any subsurface movement of water in a direction counter to that at the surface. A drogue of similar design to that used by Nares and his crew aboard the Shearwater was used to track the undercurrents. At Station 106, it was shown using this apparatus that the stength of the surface current diminished with increasing depth and ceased to have any measurable effect at 75fm. Unfortunately, the shipboard scientists were content to note at this juncture 'how very superficial the Equatorial Current is". Had they made additional measurements at greater depth, they would undoubtedly have discovered for the first time the existence of the Equatorial Counter Current. As it transpired, this was discovered by Buchanan during a subsequent cruise on the cable vessel Buccaneer. As Challenger sailed from the Cape Verde Islands to Brazil, the temperature readings that she was taking were observed to form a distinct pattern. Nares speculated that the 'cold stream' to the west was separated from warmer waters to the east by a north-south trending shoal system (subsequently confirmed by sounding) that acted as a barrier to mixing. We now recognise this as the Mid- Atlantic Ridge, a centre of sea-floor spreading, and the Walvis Ridge (discovered when Challenger re-entered the South Atlantic in 1876) running roughly at right angles to it as a transform fault system. The numerous 'sills' recorded in the East Indian archipelago are also now interpreted in terms of modern plate tectonic theory, as parts of an island arc system. While the Challenger crew and scientists relaxed at one of their many ports-of-call (Sydney, Australia) in March 1874, controversy was raging back in England over the causes of ocean currents. It had been contended by Carpenter that the motive force lay in the superior weight of one column of water over another. This thesis was held to be untenable by James Croll, in that it presupposed the existence of a significant difference in level between one part of the ocean and another. Observations from the Challenger cruise did seem to indicate that a dynamic circulatory system could be generated and maintained by temperature gradients, as then advocated by Carpenter. But Croll remained unconvinced, citing wind-stress as an equally likely alternative explanatory mechanism. He attacked Carpenter from many fronts, having at his disposal a greater knowledge of physical processes and a commendable tenacity. But he was unable to win the war of words, in which Carpenter's literary grace was a great advantage, or indeed to shift Carpenter from his entrenched position. Later, Wyville Thomson was to argue that THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 125 there was not the slightest ground for supposing that such a thing existed as 'a general vertical circulation of the water of the oceans depending upon differences of specific gravity". The debate ended somewhat acrimoniously and far from satisfactorily. The modern view (e.g. Sverdrup, Fleming & Johnson, 1942) is that no one simple model in isolation can explain the dynamics of ocean circulation. Rather, it is seen as due to the dynamic interaction of a large number of variable forces and as resulting in a complex series of inter-related movements. We can thus perhaps excuse Carpenter and Croll their simplistic models, which at least accounted for some of the phenomena observed by their time. Life in the Deep Sea As recently as the 1840's, Edward Forbes, a lecturer in natural sciences, had stated quite categorically following the voyages of the Beacon in 1841 and 1842 that conditions below 3()0fm. were incapable of sustaining life. He saw this as due to the lack of light penetration at those depths, which meant that there could be no photosynthesis. This in turn meant that there could be no plant life and consequently therefore neither the oxygen nor the primary food source necessary for the sustenance of animal life. Wyville Thomson, though, had cause to doubt Forbes's 'Azoic Theory'. He was aware of the findings of lowly life-forms at great depths during the voyage of the Bulldog in 1860 (Wallich, 1862) and had first-hand reports of the forms attached to the Bona submarine cable off Sardinia at a depth of KMtOfm. from his Edinburgh colleague Fleeming Jenkin. He had therefore set sail in 1868 aboard the Lightning and in 1869 aboard the Porcupine to investigate for himself the possibility of life in the deep-sea, finding abundant evidence of it to depths of 6()0fm . off the Shetlands and Faeroes on the former cruise and to 20(X)fm. off Ushant on the latter. It was with the publication of the results of the voyages of the Lightning and Porcupine (Wyville Thomson, 1873) that Forbes's 'Azoic Theory' finally came to be discredited (Rice et al., 1976; Mills, 1978, 1984; Rehbock, 1979; Rice, 1986). Nonetheless, it still came as something of a revelation when Challenger discovered worm tubes from a depth of about 3(X)0fm. in March 1873. These were identified by Willemoes-Suhm as Annelida. This, and subsequent similar discoveries, prompted Wyville Thomson to note that 'conditions of the bottom are not only such as to admit the existence of life, but are such as to allow of the unlimited extension of the distribution of animals high in the zoological series, and closely in relation to the faunae of shallower zones'. It was inevitable in the light of this finding that there would come to be developed a theory of abyssal circulation and regeneration of bottom waters. Meanwhile, important observations were also being made on the surface-dwelling and intermediate faunae recovered by plankton tows. Murray was able to document for the first time the diurnal vertical migration of many species. He was also able to confirm that the planktonic foraminifera in surface waters (see Plate 3, p. 120) were of the same species as those comprising the bulk of the underlying sediments. Up until this time, it was only surmised and sometimes openly contested that the 'Glohigerina ooze' consisted essentially of planktonic rather than benthonic species. Also of note was the finding that the abundance and diversity of planktonic foraminifera varied greatly with latitude. The diversity tended to be much lower in higher latitudes, and in the highest latitudes few if any specimens were found: here, the 'Glohigerina ooze' passed into diatom ooze. Particularly noteworthy was the following observation, probably the first on any living planktonic foraminifer, by Wyville Thomson (1877): 126 R. W . JONES On one occasion in the Pacific, when Mr Murray was out in a boat in a dead calm collecting surface creatures, he took gently up in a spoon a litle globular gelatinous mass with a red centre and transferred it to a tube. The globule gave us our first and last chance of seeing what a pelagic foraminifer really is when in its full beauty. When placed under the microscope it proved to be a Hastigerina in a condition wholly different from anything we had yet seen. The spines, which were mostly unbroken, owing to its mode of capture, were enormously long, about fifteen times the diameter of the shell in length; the sarcode, loaded with yellow oil-cells, was almost all outside the shell, and beyond the fringe of yellow sarcode the space between the spines to a distance of about twice the diameter of the shell all round was completely filled up with delicate bullae ... as if the most perfectly transparent portion of the sarcode has been blown out into a delicate froth of buttles of uniform size. Along the spines fine double threads of transparent sarcode. loaded with white granules, coursed up one side and down the other, while between the spines independent thread-like pseudopodia ran out. some of them perfectly free and others anastomosing .... but all showing the characteristic fluid movement of living protoplasm. The [accompanying] woodcut [based on drawings by Wild, the originals of which are now among the Challenger MSS. in the Special Collections Department of Edinburgh University Library], excellent though it is, gives only a most imperfect idea of the complexity and the beauty of the organism with its swimming or floating machinery in its expanded condition. In the deeper parts of the Pacific (below about 40(K)fm.) in 1875 a new type of sediment was discovered. As this was a type of red clay but contained a high proportion of siliceous radiolarian scierocoma. it came to be termed radiolarian ooze. Working on this material led incidentally to the solution of the mystery surrounding Bathyhius. B. haeckelii had orginally been described by Huxley in 1868 from samples collected by the Cyclops and preserved in spirit. It was regarded as a form of protoplasm and at the time was central to the debate on abiogenesis or spontaneous generation of life from mud. Wyville Thomson, with Buchanan's help, demonstrated apparently conclusively that it was of mineral origin and represented an artefact of preparation technique (a precipitate in spirit of the calcium sulphate in sea water). Latterly, Rice (1983) has put forward a possible alternative hypothesis, envisaging Bathyhius as an aggregated mass of phyto- plankton bound by an amorphous matrix. Achievements of the Expedition From the point of view of increasing knowledge of the nature and distribution of deep- sea sediments, the voyage of the Challenger was hugely successful. Pioneer work by Buchanan and especially Murray opened up an almost entirely new field which Murray was to make peculiarly his own. Despite primitive sampling methods, the biological aims of the cruise were also amply fulfilled. A tremendous amount of material was collected from trawling stations from all over the world and from dredging stations to the greatest depths ever sounded. This material had been sorted, where necessary preserved and classified into the main systematic groups for further analysis, identification and description. For this further study. Wyville Thomson carefully recruited seventy-six acknowledged international specialists, who for their services received a small honorarium to cover their expenses, a commemorative Challenger medal and eventually a personal copy of the report in which their results were published: many appear also to have acquired or sent to Ihcir colleagues duplicate sets of specimens! THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 1 27 About half of the species described (including about a quarter of the foraminifera) proved to be entirely new to science. Not only was this taxonomic synthesis invaluable in its own right, it permitted ecological analysis on an ocean — or world-wide basis for the first time. The deep-sea fauna proved to be remarkably cosmopolitan. Wyville Thomson was able to note that it bore close affinities to the shallower water fauna of high latitudes, 'no doubt because the conditions of temperature, on which the distribution of animals mainly depends, are nearly similar [in the two types of environment)". Also that its relations with Tertiary and newer Mesozoic faunae were much closer than those of the faunae of shallow water, though not as close as he had been led to expect. Only in the area of physical oceanography did the voyage fail to achieve wholly satisfactory results, though even here it fuelled debate and encouraged further study. Of all the criticisms that have been levelled at it, the most telling was that it did not incorporate a physicist. As it was, it was left to the chemist Buchanan to make whatever measurements he could of density, salinity and dissolved oxygen. Instruments such as the current drogue and reversing thermometers were certainly not used to their full potential. It was Buchanan, too, who was able to demonstrate by obtaining from his piezometers indirect but independent temperature values that the Miller-Casella readings were inaccurate. In view of this finding, and of the crucial importance of temperature in the debate on oceanic circulation, all earlier data had to be reassessed. It was therefore not until 1877, when Wild's book Thalassa was published, that the physical results of the Challenger cruise were adequately synthesised. Contemporary opinions on the value of the Challenger expedition were divided. One rather bitter contemporary British commentator wrote, in an article reproduced in the journal Hydrospace in December, 1971: The first volume recording the adventures of the Challenger yachting trip is now out, and the other fifty-nine will be ready in less than a century. Everyone knows that Mr. Lowe sent a man-of-war laden with Professors, and that these learned individuals amused themselves for four years. They played with thermometers, they fished to all depths from two feet to three miles, they brought up bucketfuls of stuff from the deep-sea bottom, and they plottered about and imagined they were furthering the Grand Cause of Science. Then the tons of rubbish were brought home, and the genius who bossed the expedition proceeded to employ a swarm of foreigners to write monographs on the specimens. There were plenty of good scientific men in England, but the true philosopher is nothing if not cosmopolitan; so the taxpayers' money was employed in feeding a mob of Germans and other aliens. The whole business has cost two hundred thousand pounds; and in return for this sum we have got one lumbering volume of statistics, and a complete set of squabbles which are going on briskly wherever two or three philosophers are gathered together. I believe the expedition discovered one new species of shrimp, but I am not quite sure. In contrast, a letter (now among the Challenger MSS. in the Special Collections Department of Edinburgh University Library) signed by the Austrian scientist Suess and several of his colleagues, dated 12 June 1876 and addressed to 'The Editors of the Periodical Nature, London', reads: Gentlemen, After having followed the reports of the Naturalists of H.M. Ship Challenger with the utmost interest we beg leave to ask you kindly to transmit this simple but sincere expression of a hearty welcome and of thankful admiration to those distinguished gentlemen, as well as to the officers and 128 R. W. JONES crew of this gallant ship which has been called to render so prominent services to science. The consensus of current opinion (as apparent from retrospective reviews written in commemoration of the Challenger centenary (Deacon (1971, 1972), Linklater (1972). Yonge ( 1972) & Charnock (1973)) is that the Challenger expedition was one of the most significant in the history of science. 'Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger'. The publication of the Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger was the joint responsibility of the series editor and the Treasury. Wyville Thomson was the editor until his resignation on the grounds of ill health at the end of 1881, whereupon Murray was appointed as successor. Treasury parsimony then led to Murray drawing on his own personal fortune to finance the publication of the fifty lavishly-illustrated royal quarto Challenger volumes to appear between 1880 and 1895. these included a Narrative of the Cruise: a General Account of the Scientific Results of the Expedition by Murray, Buchanan, Moseley and Staff-Commander Tizard. published in two parts in 1885, and six other volumes to which Murray contributed personally. Incidentally, the cost of the whole enterprise (estimated at one hundred and seventy thousand pounds sterling) was more than offset by the profits brought about by the exploitation of the phosphate deposits of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. These had been discovered quite by chance in 1886 by the FIving Fish, on a cruise which had been organised by Murray for the purpose of increasing knowledge of coral reefs. When Murray heard about the discovery from the Commanding Officer of the Flying Fish who had served with him on the Challenger, he was quick to turn unexpected good fortune to greater advantage. He promptly hired the geologist H. P. Guppy to conduct a detailed survey, and, when he found out that the phosphate deposits were of commercial importance, urged annexation of the island and its valuable resources to Great Britain. On 4 April 1888, he wrote a letter (which survives to this day in the Palaeontology Library of the British Museum (Natural History) and makes interesting reading) to Sir Henry Thurston Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on this subject, and in June of that year, the Imperieuse landed on Christmas Island and hoisted the Union Flag there. Murray, ever astute in matters of business, then helped to found the Christmas Island Phosphate Company, which, as the Admiralty Hydrographer later wrote 'provided . . . more than the whole cost of the Challenger expedition". After the death of co-founder Irvine, some of the company's profits were used to set up the Irvine Chair of Bacteriology at Edinburgh University which is still in place to this day. This illuminating episode in Murray's life is chronicled in an article that appeared in the Scotsman of 8th March 1914 entitled "Christmas Island: Fortune from a No-Man's Land'. HENRY BOWMAN BRADY (1835-1891) Henry Bowman Brady (see Plate 4) was born on 22 February 1835 in Gateshead in the Norlh-East of England, where his parents had settled in 1829. His father, also called Henry (1805-1883) was a respected medical practitioner and surgeon: he was also, as his THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 129 Plate 4 Top left: Brady as a young man, probably c. 1868-1870. Top right; Brady as an older man. This is the best-known photograph of Brady, and is the one used by Adams ( 1978) in his recent biography. Bottom left: Jones. Bottom right: Parker From the Brady Family Photograph Album Reproduced by kind permission of Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Libraries & Arts. 130 R. W. JONES biographers (his son-in-law and daughter) T. C. and H. B. Watson in Steel (1899) put it. 'emphatically a Christian physician' who had "yielded to a call to the ministry' in 1861 and was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), offering prayer with 'marked reverence and fervency' and inculcating in his children moral values which remained with them throughout their lives. His mother. Hannah (1802-1872). daughter of Ebenezer and Ann Bowman of One Ash Grange. Derbyshire (where the Brady family spent its summer holidays) was an 'active worker in many of the charitable agencies of Gateshead'. His elder brother. George Stewardson (18,^2-1921) went on to occupy the Chair of Natural History at the University of Durham and to achieve international recognition for his work on the Ostracoda (see. for instance. Davis & Home. 1985). He had seven other brothers and sisters, including Thomas, who was born in 1837 and whose descendants survive to this day (he never himself married). The young H. B. Brady no doubt had an interest in natural history fostered by his father (a keen amateur naturalist), by Tuffen West (an apprentice of his father's who was involved in dredging expeditions supported by the British Association in the 1860's and later achieved fame as an illustrator of zoological monographs), by the teachers in the two Quaker schools at which he was educated (Ackworth and Tulketh Hall near Preston), and by John Storey (a teacher, botanist and Secretary to the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club from 1849-1857) and various other members of the colony of naturalists which had its headquarters in the North-East of England for many genera- tions (Albany and John Hancock, Bewick and Alder among them). It was evidently a lifelong interest: one of Brady's many letters to Dr. A. Gunther, Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum (Natural History), (now in the archives of the General Library of that institution), dated 19 November 1878, concerned Ant-Eaters. Another letter to Gunther. headed Devonshire Club. St James's SW and dated 6 May 1887, reads: You were so kind as to tell me some time ago that if I desired tickets for the Zoological Gardens I need not hesitate to ask you. Can you provide me with three tickets for Sunday week. May 15th — I have a niece in town who would be much pleased by the attention. Brady left school in 1850 at the age of fifteen to serve as an apprentice to a Mr. T. Harvey or R. Richards (sources differ), a chemist in Leeds, for four years. He then went on to study pharmacy in the laboratories of Dr. T. Richardson, the forerunner of the Newcastle College of Medicine. On graduating in 1855. he set himself up as a wholesale and retail pharmacist on the comer of St. Nicholas' Square in Newcastle. His commercial career prospered from the start, possibly because pure drugs had previously been in short supply. He was soon able to move to larger premises in Mosley Street and to diversify into the export trade and into the sale of scientific instruments. In the latter function, he established important contacts with many eminent scientists. His ready acceptance by the inner sanctum of late nineteenth-century foraminiferologists may have been attributable in some measure to his business reputation. Brady's dynamic energy and organisational ability were both evident in his role as pharmacist. He was largely responsible for the foundation of the British Pharmaceutical Conference and was an active member thereof, serving both as Treasurer ( 1864-70) and later President (1872-73). He also served on the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society and was a member of the Board of Examiners until 1870 (when ill-health forced him to retire). Further, he did much to promote the scientific education of pharmaceutical chemists and was instrumental in transforming the Pharmaceutical Journal (to which he was a regular contributor) from a monthly to a weekly publication. Accolades from professional colleagues were many. Brady was elected an Honorary Member of the THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 131 American Pharmaceutical Association, the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the Pharmaceutical Societies of St. Petersburg and Vienna. His hunger for intellectual activity also manifested itself in fields other than those directly associated with his work, even early on. He became an enthusiastic member of the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club (incidentally the second oldest in the country) and the Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Natural History Society. His first papers on the foraminifera appeared in the I86()"s in the transactions of these societies and as a report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Brady, 1863, 1864a-b, I865a-b) and essentially concerned those living off the coasts of his native North-East (see also Woodward, 1972). Another significant milestone in Brady's early career was the co-publication with Carpenter (Carpenter & Brady, 1869) of a monograph of the genera Loftusia and Parkeria (the latter now known to be non- foraminiferal). This work received extremely favourable reviews from Duncan and Parker, the originals of which are now to be found among the Referees Reports in the Archives of the Royal Society. It is testimony to Brady's dedication that over thirty subsequent publications on the group (ranging in age from Silurian to Recent) were forthcoming during the course of his working life, notwithstanding the many and varied demands on his time. In recognition of his signal services to natural science he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1864 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1874. In a letter headed Mosley St., Newcastle-on-Tyne and dated 6 June 1874, Brady wrote to Stokes at the Royal Society acknowledging the latter honour and adding 'I hope to be attending for admission on the 18th Sept.'. This letter now resides among the Miscellaneous Correspondence in the Archives of the Royal Society. Brady was so successful in business that he was able to sign over his business to his one- time assistant and later partner Nicholas Martin in 1876 (at the age of 41) and to devote the remainder of his fruitful life to the full-time study of the foraminifera. In his work on the group, he was variously associated with most of the leading contemporary authorities, including his sometime co-authors Carpenter (see Plate I), William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones (see Plate 4; see also Murray, 1981, 1989). Together with Fortescue William Millett and William Crawford Williamson, these luminaries constituted what was to become known as the 'English School'. The broad species concept of the taxonomically conservative 'English School' contrasted radically with the philosophy of the 'Continental School' (personified by Auguste Emanuel Reuss, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (see Plate 5), Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny and others). The pinnacle of Brady's achievements as a foraminiferal worker was undoubtedly achieved with the publication of the Report on the Foraminifera dredged by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876 (hereafter Challenger Report). Brady's work on this colossal project began in 1878 and ended with the submission to the publishers of the final instalment in 1884. The 814 pages of text (written in a delightfully idiosyncratic style far removed from the modern terseness) set new standards of comprehensive presenta- tion of information and attention to detail and make the Challenger Report an indispensable reference even to this day. The bibliographic section alone occupies 46 pages! Brady's accuracy of observation was particularly examplary and is perhaps his most enduring legacy. He personally supervised the production of the 116 magnificent colour plates by the skilled draughtsman and lithographer A. T. Hollick, which are of a standard rarely matched before or since. Records in a plate proof receipt and despatch book owned by James Chumley of the Challenger Office, 45 Frederick Street, Edinburgh (now in the Special Collections Department of Edinburgh University Library) indicate that this in itself was a very time-consuming task, beginning in 1882. In later life, Brady received many prestigious awards and honours for his contributions to foraminiferal studies, among them a gold medal from the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I (see below) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen. The 132 R. W. JONES Plate S Left: Ehrenberg. Centre: Reuss. Right: Karrcr. From the Brady Family Photograph Album Reproduced by kind permission of Ncwcastlc-upon-Tync City Libraries & Arts. letter advising him of tiie latter honour is among some of the uncatalogued Brady papers in the Library of the Royal Society. It is dated 3 March 1S,S8 and signed H. Alleyne Nicholson and reads 'My Dear Brady. 1 write a most hurried note in order to catch the early Sunday mail tomorrow morning for the south, that 1 may have the great pleasure of telling you that the University of Aberdeen has to-day, on my proposal, conferred upon you the degree of LL.D.". He was also appointed as Corresponding Member of the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, made an Honorary Member of the Royal Bohemian Museum, Prague and sat on the "Committee of Papers" of the Royal Society. His review of 3 June 1889 of a paper by Bateson 'on some varieties of Cardium ediile' resides among the Referees Reports in the Archives of the Royal Society. Like many other products of his generation, Brady had a great zest for life. Despite (or perhaps because of) his delicate health (he was troubled by pulmonary disease for many years), he was an avid gentleman-traveller. He journeyed twice around the world, visiting such places as Morocco, India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Java, the Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He seems to have been particularly fascinated by the Orient, and hlled the house he had bought for his fathers retirement ('Hillfield' at the top of Windmill Hill in Gateshead) with Japanese paintings, vases and curios. His interest in the local flora and fauna he encountered and the native customs he observed on his travels frequently prompted him to write short pieces. One of his letters to Gunther, headed Hillfield and dated 28 October 1878, reads: During a recent visit to the interior of Morocco, 1 made a good many observations in respect to the snake performances as practiced by the Clissowa. A subsequent letter, dated 13 November 1878, thanks Gunther for his '. . . obliging letter just to hand . . .", and laments the lack of ". . . accurate knowledge on the characters of snakes . . .' displayed earlier, adding: "... had they only been Protozoa, 1 could have lold you more about them — but this comes from having lapsed into a specialist". THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 1 33 On his last overseas trip, to the Upper Nile in 1889-1890, Brady fell seriously ill with oedema of the feet and legs. He spent some time laid up in Cairo before being forced home. On his return, he took up residence in Bournemouth, where he lived as a semi- invalid and was unable to fulfil his final ambition (alluded to in a letter to Gunther dated 22 May 1888) of producing a monograph of the British Foraminifera. Brady died of pneumonia on Saturday 10 January 1891. The Newcastle Daily Chronicle posted a short obituary notice the following Monday, and an account of the funeral the following Thursday. Obituaries were also published in the Geological Magazine, in the Pharaceutical Journal and in the 'Notices of Fellows Deceased' in the Proceedings of the Royal Society for 1891-1892 (the last-named by the metallurgist W. C. Roberts-Austen). Brady's most fitting epitaph is provided by Dr. Michael Foster, who wrote in the issue of Nature dated 29 January 1891: Science has lost a steady and fruitful worker, and many men of science have lost a friend and helpmate whose place they feel no-one else can fill. His wide knowledge of many branches of scientific inquiry and his large acquaintance with scientific men made the hours spent with him always profitable; his sympathy with art and literature, and that special knowledge of men and things which belongs only to the travelled man made him welcome also where science was unknown; while the brave patience with which he bore the many troubles of enfeebled health, his unselfish thoughtfulness for interests other than his own, and a sense of humour which, when needed, led him to desert his usual staid demeanour for the merriment of the moment, endeared him to all his friends. Readers interested in further details of Brady's life are referred to the two fine and factual biographies known to the author, the one contemporary (by his brother-in-law Thomas Carrick Watson, in Steel, 1899), the other modern (Adams, 1978). Brady Library Watson, the executor of Brady's will, wrote to the Treasurer of the Royal Society in a letter (now among the Miscellaneous Correspondence in the Archives of the Royal Society) headed 83 Osborne Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and dated 2 July 1891: 'I beg to hand you herewith . . . eight hundred pounds, being the sum bequeathed by the late Henry Bowman Brady to the Royal Society.' Five hundred pounds was to be placed in the Scientific Relief Fund of the Royal Society in accordance with Clause 10 of the will. The remaining three hundred pounds was to be used for the maintenance and increase of the Brady Library in accordance with Clause 3 of the will, which read: I bequeath all my books and papers relating to the Protozoa to the Royal Society and I recommend for the greater convenience of reference thereto the said books and papers should be kept together in one place and a distinct collection .... The Brady Library, incidentally the only named collection in the entire Library of the Royal Society (though currently in the basement!) now comprises some 180 volumes. Among these are a number of rare and valuable books by such authors as Agassiz, d'Archaiac & Haime, Batsch, de Blainville, Costa, Dujardin, Ehrenberg, Fichtel & 134 R.W.JONES Moll, Geinitz, Haeckel, Karrer, Karrer, d'Orbigny, Schaudinn, Seguenza, Silvestri, Soldani. Spengler, Stache & Schwager and Terquem. Also in the collection are a complete early run of the journal Annals and Magazine of Natural History and volumes of reprints and unpublished manuscripts and drawings by various workers annotated by Brady himself, some of which are bound under the title Memoirs and Papers Relating to the Foraminifera. Some material has been bound and some added by the Royal Society. Some letters, manuscripts and sundry papers are archived separately in the Library of the Royal Society. The letters include one from Edward Heron-Allen to the Library Committee of the Royal Society, headed 33 Hamilton Terrace N.W. and dated 21 October 1914, which reads: Gentlemen, By the introduction of Prof. Herdman and with the kind and courteous assistance of the Asst. Librarian Mr. Hastings White, it has been my privilege for some time past to make use of the unique and remarkable collection of works on the Foraminifera bequeathed to your library by the late Dr. H. B. Brady . . . Other letters in the collection include ones to Brady from G. S. Brady, Carter [?]. Guppy, Halkyard, Hantken, Howchin. Millett, Murray, Schwager and Sherborn. The manuscripts include one "On the shallow water and littoral foraminifera of some of the islands of the southern Pacific", probably written c. 1890 and never published. The sundry papers include numerous drawings and tracings of foraminifera by Brady together with a key, plates of Crag foraminifera by Brady and West, taxonomic notes on Pacific foraminifera (New Caledonia, 1884, Fiji, 1884-1885 and Samoa), and distribution data on the Challenger foraminifera. The Challenger data are contained in three black foolscap volumes. Two of these tabulate the distributions of all of the species of foraminifera figured in the Challenger Report (Brady, 1884), species-by-species. The first of these deals with those figured on Plates 1-55 of the Challenger Report (Miliolidae-Astrorhizidae-Lituolidae-Textularidae- Chilostomellidae) and the second with those figured on Plates 56-115 (Lagenidae- Globigerinidae-Rotalidae-Nummulinidae). The tables are interspersed with notes (e.g. from Rev. A. M. Norman on Psarnrnatodendron) . The third volume lists the distribu- tions of all of the foraminifera figured in the Challenger Report, station-by-station, and adds the date on which the station was sampled, its latitude and longitude, and depth, bottom temperature and substrate data. This volume contains an unsigned note to the effect that 'Brady gives lists from . . . stations not in his Report'. Brady Family Photograph Album Additional insights into the Brady's shared characters may be gained by browsing through their family photograph album in the Local Studies Department, Central Library, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The frontispiece page features one of the best-known photgraphs of Brady (that used by Adams (1978); see also Plate 4) and dedicates the album to his "affectionate remembrance'. Many of the photographs in this remarkable and fascinating compilation were evidently taken by Brady himself: a number of the earliest ones of the Great Fire of Gateshead are dated October 1854 and signed H. B. B., and it seems reasonable to attribute some later photomicrographs (including ones of pennate and centric diatoms and holothurians) to him also. However, some were also taken by R. B. Bowman (probably a cousin) and some evidently bought as postcards, etc. THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 1 35 Among the photographs present in the album (this is by no means an exhaustive list) are ones of local scenes, beauty spots (home and abroad), still lives, staged set-pieces somewhat in the style of Henry Peach Robinson, family and friends (including the Quaker families Pumphrey and Robinson), literary figures (contemporary English and French authors and the Romantic Poets), works of art (principally in the classical, neo- classical, renaissance and Pre-Raphaelite schools and often with a religious theme) and architecture (principally ecclesiastical, but also industrial and municipal), contemporary figures, politicians and captains of industry (including such diverse figures as the performing artists Ellen Terry and Sarah Siddons, Florence Nightingale and the 'iron master" Crawshay, David Livingstone and the imperialist Rajah Brooke, abolitionist Abraham Lincoln and the Tsar of Russia, the Pope and Garibaldi) and leading contemporary scientists and naturalists. A touching chord is struck by the inclusion of the obviously much-loved prize-winning dog 'Cato', and a somewhat bizarre one by the inclusion of one 'Crockett the Lion Tamer". THE CHALLENGER FORAMINIFERA The 600 cases of Challenger material, including 100,000 mountable specimens" were originally assumed all to have been deposited in the British Museum (Natural History), in accordance with Admiralty instructions to that effect. However, some material was disposed of during the voyage, some was never returned by the specialists to whom it was sent for description and some was sent out on subsequent request to various institutions: in particular, sediment samples were very widely dispersed. The history of dispersal of the Challenger material is admirably summarised by Lingwood (1981) and Kempe & Buckley (1987). The following discussion of the location of Challenger foraminiferal material is based partly on these accounts, and partly on those of Adams (1960), Adams el al. (1980) and Murray & Taplin (1984fl). McConnell (in press) provides further information on the whereabouts of correspondence and papers pertaining to the Challenger expedition and its organisers and participants. Foraminiferal Slides According to records in the catalogue of 'Challenger Office specimens sent out 1873- 1915' housed in the Palaeontology Library of the British Museum (Natural History), Challenger material was sent to Brady in ten batches between 25 November 1882 and 9 September 1887, that despatched on 1 June 1887 being directed to 5, Robert Street, Adelphi, London WCl. This material is only recorded as having been returned in three instances! However, it would seem that little of importance remains unaccounted for. Most of the specimens of foraminifera figured in the Challenger Report (Brady, 1884) are to be found in picked slides in handsome polished wood cabinets in the Heron-Allen Library in the Palaeontology Department of the British Museum (Natural History) (see Plate 6); a few are to be found in the Carpenter collection in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (Murray & Taplin, 1984a). The slides in the BM(NH) pertain to the cruises of the Challenger herself (1872-1876), the Lighlning (1868), the Porcupine (1869) and the Knighl Errant (1879) and to the Austro-Hungarian and British North Polar expeditions (1872-74 and 1875-76 respectively). Comparison with authenticated specimens of Brady"s handwriting (e.g. signed letters to Gunther and to John Hancock (now in the museum that bears his name in Newcastle-upon-Tyne)) suggests that the 136 R. W. JONES Victorian copper-plate inscriptions on the bottoms of many of these slides are attribut- able to the man himself. Unfigured but sorted specimens and unpicked and unsorted residues are also to be found in slides in the Palaeontology Department of the BM(NH) (see Plate 6). Henry Sidebottom made some attempt to catalogue the former in his unpublished "MS. index to the collection of type-slides used by H. B. Brady . . .', probably compiled at around the turn of the century. Adams (1960) and Adams el at. (1980) list the BM(NH) registered numbers of many of the specimens figured in the Challenger Report (Brady, 1884). They also discuss the status of the specimens of the 97 species described as new in the Challenger Report (Brady, 1884) and the 140 species described as new in earlier works (principally Brady, 1878, \819a-b, 1881a-c, 1882) and subsequently figured (in many cases for the first time) in the Challenger Report. All of these are interpreted as syntypes. Some have been designated as lectotypes and paralectotypes. Adams and Adams et al. (op. cit.) also give something of the history of the collections. It appears from their accounts that Brady presented the Porcupine material to the BM(NH) in 1885 and the Knight Errant material and 612 slides of Challenger material in 1888. At least the bulk of the remainder of the Challenger material was originally deposited in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, whence, at the instigation of Sir Clive Forster-Cooper and Edward Heron- Allen, it was removed to the BM(NH) between 1939 and 1959 (see also Joysey, 1960). There are no records of any material remaining at Cambridge (R. Symonds, personal communication). In fact, Brady appears to have presented some Challenger material to the BM(NH) as early as 1885. A letter from Brady to Gunther, headed Savile Club, Piccadilly and dated 8 October 1885, intimated that Brady expected to finish the following day "... sorting and arranging the collection of Challenger and other Foraminifera and mounting a suitable series for exhibition [in the BM(NH)|'. A second letter, dated 9 October, confirmed that he had indeed "... finished, as far as I can at the moment, the work I have been engaged upon ... in connection with the collections'. A third letter, headed White Hart Hotel, Reigate and dated 13 October, noted that Brady was '. . . well pleased that the series of Foraminifera meets with your approval. I hope still, as I may have time, to do a good deal to render it more complete'. Brady is also known to have presented 435 slides of Challenger and Porcupine material and practically all of the Austro-Hungarian North Polar expedition material to his friend Felix Karrer (see Plate 5) at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, in 1887, which resides there still. In recognition of this, Franz von Hauer, a geologist who at the time was director of the Museum, approached the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and arranged for Brady to be presented with a gold medal inscribed 'k. k. osterr.-ung. Ehrenzeichen fiir Kunst und Wissenschaft" (Insignia of the Royal and Imperial Austro- Hungarian Empire for Art and Science) and bearing His Imperial Majesty's portrait and device (F. RogI, personal communication). Additional Challenger material was presented to David Robertson, 117 slides of which are now in the Robertson Museum and Aquarium collection, Millport, and Art Gallery and Museum collection, Glasgow (F. Woodward, personal communication). The Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne also has "... a few slides . . ." (P. S. Davis, personal communication), and the Laboratorium voor Paleontologie, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, has twelve (Hooyberghs & van de Sande, 1988). Raw Material A vast number of sediment sounding samples collected by Challenger are now housed in the BM(NH). These were originally stored in one collcctiim in the C/ia/Ztvi^'fr expedition THE CHAl I ENGER EXPEDITION 137 r-., t^Li. '*9^^^)//-. ■ X '-ir z F Names' Mat tout ^IJJjU^^ 10H(d' "^r"- ^ \ Challenger" J'f-xvi.E.,**.^,™ Plate 6 Top left: Slide of residue material from Challenger Station 150. between Kerguelen and Heard Island. Upper middle left: Slide of picked residue from Challenger Station 218A. Admiralty Islands (top), with old British Museum (Natural History) registered number (1885.10.27.104). Ix)wer middle left: Bottom of same slide annotated by Brady. Bollom left: Slide of sorted residue from Station VIIC. The fauna in many of these so-called 'type slides' has been identilied by Sidebottom ('MS. index to the collection of type-slides used by H. B. Brady . . .'). Top right: Slide of the benthonic foraminifer Kerarnosphaera murrayi Brady from Challenger Station 157, with new BM(NH) registered number (ZF3hl7). Upper middle right: Slide of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerina aequilateralis Brady [now identified as Globtgerinella aequtlateralis (Brady)) from a surface tow in the PaciHc. with new BN(NH) registered number (ZF14-10). Bottom of same slide annotated by Brady, with old BM(NH) registered number (1885 >*. 25.1 1). Bottom right: Thin-section slide of the benthonic foraminifer Orhitolites complanata var. laciniata Brady |now Marginupora vertebralis var. plicata Dana] from Challenger Station I72A. Tongatabu Reef, with new BM(NH) registered number (ZF2037) Figured in Challenger Report (Brady. 1884; PI. 16. Fig. II). All reproduced by courtesy of the Palaeontology Department of the BM(NH). 138 R. W. JONES commission's offices in Queen Street in Edinburgh, which was moved in 1890 to nearby Frederick Street. A set of samples from this collection, one from each Challenger slation . was sent to the Geology Department of the BM(NH) in 1895 and subsequently transferred to the Zoology Department of that institution in 1922 and to the Mineralogy Department in 1938. The remainder of the Edinburgh collection was transferred in 1904 to Sir John Murray's residence "Villa Medusa' on the northern outskirts of the city, where it remained until long after Murray's death in an automobile accident in 1914. Here it was examined by Edward Heron-Allen and Arthur Earland in 1919 and found to comprise 9746 samples of 'Marine Deposits' (soundings, dredging, etc. in bottles and boxes), together with the C/ia//eMger expedition glass photographic plates, microscopical preparations and an extensive oceanographic library. This part of the collection was eventually acquired by the Zoology Department of the BM(NH) in 1921 and by the Mineralogy Department either later in 1921 (a few specimens of phosphates, etc.) or in 1935. Some of it has subsequently been transferred to the Palaeontology Department. Murray had stipulated in 1914 to Heron-Allen that in the event of his untimely death his collection should be bequeathed either to his two sons, if they wished to carry on his work, or to a reputable institution such as the BM(NH) or to the Imperial College of Science (University of London). In the latter event a responsible curator, salaried from a trust fund, was meticulously to catalogue every sample. After the inevitable delay, this condition (subsequently stressed by the Murray family solicitor) has now been fully complied with: the Sir John Murray Collection of zoological, botanical and geological specimens from the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger is catalogued by Buckley el al. (1979, 1984) and most of it has been entered onto a computer database. PLANNED REVISION TO THE TAXONOMY OF THE CHALLENGER FORAMINIFERA The original report on the Challenger foraminifera (Brady. 1884) dates from what might best be termed the systematic or descriptive phase of deep-sea research. It was conceived in the pervasive intellectual atmosphere of the "English School' and consequently embodies a broader ('lumping') species concept than is usually acceptable today (Cifelli & Richardson, 1990; Haynes, 1990). Because of its archaic taxonomy, it cannot be used without qualification in the type of analytical and synoptic work currently being undertaken. Previous revisions to the taxonomy of the Challenger foraminifera include those of Nuttall (1927, 1931), Thalmann (1932, 1933, 1937, 1942) and most notably, R. Wright Barker (1960). Barker's work was particularly important and useful in that it synthesiscd all of the great variety of names assigned to Brady's figured species in the literature up to 1960 (including those of Nuttall and Thalmann. opp. cil.) However, Barker did not subjectively assess which names were valid and which not, referring simply to the ". . . return in . . . recent times to the principles of Reuss . . .', the 'splitting of a large number of Brady's "species" . . .' and ". . . their allocation to new genera . . .'. He proposed nomina nova for four species whose earlier names were pre-occupied, but did not formally describe the thirty-one species and three varieties he regarded as new, stating that "a number of the forms figured by Brady, and as yet undescribed, have been indicated but have not been named, for the writer has not had the opportunity to study Brady's specimens in order to prepare adequate descriptions and to designate types.' And in many cases he left problems of generic assignment unresolved, commenting in the case of the nodosariids, for instance, that "there is still confusion in the treatment of this group, . . . and nt) attempt has been made to clarify the question here, the generic THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION 1 39 names in all cases being quoted unchanged". His work was essentially, as he himself stated. '. . . of a bibliographic nature and in no sense a critical revision of the Challenger Report.' Since Barker's time there have been a large number of publications bearing on the taxonomy of the Challenger foraminifera: some of the more important are those of Loeblich & Tappan (1964, 1988), Shchedrina (1964, 1969), Srinivasan & Sharma (1969, 1980), Hornibrook ( 1971 ), Saidova (1975, 1981 ). McCulloch (1977, 1981 ). Zheng ( 1979), Haynes (1981), Rogl & Hansen (1984), Papp & Schmid (1985) and Van Morkhoven, Berggren, Edwards t'? o/. (1986). In my opinion, the taxonomic advances since Barker's time allow a fresh revision of the taxonomy of the Challenger foraminifera, while the growing interest in cosmopolitan deep water benthonic foraminifera and their stratigraphic, palaeobathymetric and palaeo-oceanographic potential necessitates it. I am therefore planning a further revision of the taxonomy of the Challenger foraminifera. My intention is to reproduce all of the text-figures and 116 colour plates from the original report on the Challenger foraminifera (Brady, 1884) in book form and to annotate them with up-to-date taxonomic notes. Identifications will be based on examination of the specimens themselves in the British Museum (Natural History). Locations and depths of sampling sites from which figured specimens came will be checked at source and given in full, as will BM(NH) registered numbers and relevant information on the status of specimens (lectotypes etc.). A list of cited references and a comprehensive taxonomic index will also be given. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Grateful thanks are due to Professor F. T. Banner of the BP Research Centre, Sunbury- on-Thames, and the Palaeontology Department of the British Museum (Natural History), London, to Drs C. G. Adams (recently retired) and J. E. Whittaker and Mr R. L. Hodgkinson also of the Palaeontology Department, to Mrs Eileen Brunton of the Palaeontology Library, to Mr H. A. Buckley of the Mineralogy Department and to the staff of the General Library of the BM(NH); to Mr P. S. Davis and the staff of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; to Mr J. V. Howard and the staff of the Special Collections Department, Edinburgh University Library; to Mr F. Manders and the staff of the Local Studies Department of the Central Library, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; to Mr K. Moore of the Royal Society, London; to Dr A. L. Rice of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, Wormley, Surrey; to Dr F. Rogl of the Palaeontology Department of the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; to Mrs Ann Shirley of the Ships Department of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London; to Mr R. Symonds of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge; to Mr F. Woodward of the Natural History Department of the Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove, Glasgow. Extracts from papers in the Archives of the Royal Society are reproduced by kind permission of the President and Council of that Institution. The National Maritime Museum gave permission to reproduce the photographs of H.M.S. Challenger. Edinburgh University Library gave permission to reproduce the photograph of the Challenger crew, Gulland's pen-and-wash sketch of Wyville Thomson and Buchanan and Wild's original drawing of Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny. Newcastle- upon-Tyne City Libraries and Arts gave permission to reproduce the photographic portraits from the Brady family album. The photographs of the Challenger slides appear courtesy of the Palaeontology Department of the BM(NH). 140 R.W.JONES Pippa Senior, Press Officer of the Royal Society and coincidentally a descendant of the Brady family provided much valuable information on the Brady family genealogy, including a family tree. This had been compiled by her great grand-mother Nora Gillie, born Brady, who was Thomas Brady's daughter and one of Henry Bowman Brady's nine nieces. My father also assisted with some of the biographical work. My wife Heather and my colleague Mike Simmons proof-read early draughts of the text and suggested various stylistic and scientific improvements. Permission to publish was granted by the British Petroleum Company p. I.e. CITED REFERENCES Adams, C. G. 1960. A note on two important collections of foraminifcra in the British Museum (Natural History). Micropaleontology <>: 417^18. 1978. Great names in micropalaeontology. 3. Henry Bowman Brady, 1835-1891. 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A preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. 2 vols. London. Yonge, Sir. M. 1972. The inception and significance of the Challenger Expedition. Proceedings of the Second International Congress of the History of Oceanography, Edinburgh, 1972 (Challenger Expedition Centenary Volume): 1-14. Zheng, S. Y. 1979. The Recent foraminifera of the Xishe Islands: Guangdong Province. China. 11. Studia Manna Smica 15: 101-232. Bull. Br Mux. Nai. Hisi. (hist- Scr.) 18(2): 14_S-:(I2 Issued 29 November 1990 The Lady Blake Collection: Catalogue of Lady Edith Blake's Collection of Drawings of Jamaican Lepidoptera and Plants C. V. ELLWOOD & J. M. V. HARVEY DeparlmenI of Library Services, The Nalural History Museum. Cromwell Road. London SW7 5BD CONTENTS Introduction 145 Early Life 146 Ireland, 1874-1884 149 Colonial Life 151 After Retirement 156 The Collection 156 History of the Collection 157 Publications 1 58 Location of Collections 158 Bibliography 159 Explanation of Catalogue Entry 160 Indexes 161 Acknowledgements 161 The Catalogue 162 Index of Lepidoptera Names 197 Index of Plant Names 199 INTRODUCTION The fascinating collection of watercolours drawn by Lady Edith Blake (1845-1926) between 1889 and 1898 is housed in the Entomology Library of the Natural History Museum. London. The 196 drawings depicting Lepidoptera and plants found in Jamaica, were painted from nature during the lime that Lady Blake's husband. Sir Henry, was Governor of the colony. Edith Blake was a skilled amateur artist, who also had a keen interest in natural history and an ability to observe in detail the objects she drew. Many of the drawings show the various stages in the life cycle of a moth or butterfly and the foodplant of the larval stage. The result of her work in Jamaica is a collection of drawings which have scientific and artistic interest. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed catalogue of these unpublished drawings. As a result of this work it is hoped that the collection and the scientific information it contains will be made available to a wider audience. Each drawing has 146 C. V. ELL WOOD & J. M. V. HARVEY been studied by scientists working in the Departments of Entomology and Botany in the Natural History Museum. Their identifications and notes are included in the catalogue together with Lady Blake's own annotations. Very little has been published on the life of Lady Edith Blake. The biographical information on the lives of the Blakes has been brought together for the first time and reveals an interesting life story. Edith lived in many different parts of the world during the colonial days of the British Empire and as an educated lady exhibited an interest in many different subjects. Most of Edith Blake's manuscript material remains in Ireland as part of private collections. These include diaries, notebooks, letters and watercolours, mostly land- scapes. It is expected that a complete biography will be published by a member of the family in the near future. A list of works written by Edith and Henry Blake is given. The bibliography includes some references to works not directly referred to in the text. These are listed to aid further reading and are not intended to be comprehensive. EARLY LIFE Edith Osborne was born at Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Ireland, in 1845. She was the elder daughter of Ralph Bernal Osborne (1808-1882) and Catherine Isabella Osborne. Edith's sister, Grace Osborne (1848-1926), became Duchess of St. Albans (Ireland) when she married William, Duke of St Albans, on ?i January 1874. Ralph Bernal had a considerable reputation as an outspoken and witty member of the House of Commons. He was educated at Charterhouse School and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829. He never settled into his studies; when his father remarried in 1831 he was removed from Cambridge and sent into the army. He spent some time as ensign of the 71st Regiment but soon transferred into the 7th Royal Fusiliers. He was promoted to Captain and remained in the army until entering Parliament in 1841. He spent much of his time enjoying society and developed a reputation as a composer of satirical verses. His engaging personality helped him to enter the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe. During his career as an MP he held seats at Middlesex (1847-57), Dover (1857-59), Liskeard (1859-65), Nottingham (1866-68) and Waterford (1870-74). He supported the liberal interest and was widely known as one of the most able (if often controversial) debaters in the House, especially when speaking on Irish topics. Indeed, when he retired from politics there were many who thought that his loss 'contributed to the decline of the House of Commons and the decline and fall of statesmanship' (Ward, 1885). On 20 August 1844 he married Catherine Isabella Osborne, the only child of Sir Thomas Osborne of Newtown Anner, County Tipperary, and heiress to considerable estates. On his marriage he assumed the surname Osborne by Royal licence. Catherine was an intelligent woman and her daughters, Edith and Grace, grew up in a stimulating and intellectual environment. Catherine Osborne died at Newtown Anner on 21 June 1880 and Ralph died at Bestwood Lodge, the seat of the Duke of St Albans, on 4 January 1882. Although Edith's father was more often in England than in Ireland, there was a constant succession of visitors at Newtown Anner. Edith met men of distinction in art, politics, science, philosophy and literature, and developed an interest in many different subjects. Her particular interests included anthropology, social issues, art and natural THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 147 Lady Edith Blake (Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica) 148 C. V. hl,LWOOD& J, M. V, HARVEY history. She was also an excellent linguist and learned the language of whichever country she lived in. According to Patricia Cockburn (1985) "she could speak nine languages: Irish, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian. Russian and Chinese, which later she learned to both read and write'. She corresponded with Joseph Paxton, the landscape designer, who helped design the gardens at Newtown Anner where he is believed to have stayed during a visit to Ireland. She was also a tine horsewoman and well known as a daring rider in the hunting field. Edith's interest in painting developed early in her life. When she was only 8 years old her sketches already showed promising talent (S. Murray, pers. comm.). Although she was chiefly self-taught, it is likely that she also received some instruction from visitors to the house at Newton Anner. The Osborne family always had an interest in art. Her grandfather, also called Ralph Bernal, was a well-known art collector and many watercolourists stayed at the house. Among them were the Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame and Thomas Shotter Boys. Shotter Boys stayed at the house when he exhibited a work painted at Newtown Anner, probably in 1865 or 1866. A close friend of both sisters was Fanny Currey (d. 1912) who stayed with them when she was a girl. She helped Edith and Grace illustrate envelopes for letters sent to their mother. Fanny Currey later exhibited at the Irish Fine Art Society, the Grosvenor Gallery, the Royal Institute of Painters in London and the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (National Gallery of Ireland & Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1987). Grace painted competent watercolours when an adult, but it seems likely that her social position prevented her exhibiting or developing her art. Edith never exhibited her work but continued painting throughout her life. In February 1872, at the age of 26, Edith began a one-year tour of southern Europe with a clergyman cousin and a maid. She visited Greece, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Austria, Germany and Turkey, everywhere taking an interest in customs, social conditions and Tlic Mi>nk's and Nun'b Ishinds. Corfu Illustratiun from Twelve monlhs in southern Europe 1876 THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 149 architecture. She kept a diary of her travels and observations and published these in Twelve months in southern Europe in 1876. It is illustrated with four of her drawings of landscapes and buildings. Considering her later interest in natural history, there is very little observation on the countryside. Her interest at this time focussed on the people and architecture. Edith was a strong character and had a good sense of humour. Two incidents which she relates in her book are amusing. On one occasion she and her companions walked through the streets of Constantinople wearing dressing-gowns, slippers and travelling hats in search of a bath. On another occasion in Italy they borrowed some fishermen's costumes in order to go swimming. In 1874 Edith married Henry Arthur Blake (1840-1918). Blake was the son of Peter Blake, County Inspector of Irish Constabulary. Henry Blake's first wife, Jeannie Irwin, died in 1866. Edith and Henry had two sons and a daughter, Olive. The marriage was not approved by Edith's parents. They had been negotiating an arranged marriage (still common in Ireland in the nineteenth century) when Edith eloped with Captain Henry Blake, head of the Clonmel police. Royal Irish Constabulary. This resulted in Edith being disinherited and her name was not mentioned in the house again (Cockburn, 1985). Since Edith had been the heiress to considerable estates and wealth, this was a significant sacrifice. Henry Blake's family was of a lower social standing than her own. His wages from his post in the Royal Irish Constabulary had to support his widowed mother and 12 brothers and sisters. IRELAND, 1874-1884 After their wedding the Blakes moved to Belfast where Olive, their first child was born. During the early days of their marriage they had little money but Henry was a highly capable man and achieved rapid promotion through the ranks of the police force. His successful career included service as District Inspector at French Park, County Roscommon (Anon., 1918). In 1876 the Blakes' circumstances improved greatly when Henry was appointed Resident Magistrate. It was common in this period for Resident Magistrates to have previously served in the constabulary (McDowell, 1964). In 1879 Edith Blake published her second book. The ReaUties of Freemasonry. This work is remarkable because it is a woman revealing many of the secrets of a male fraternal society. She attempted to dispel many of the mysteries of Freemasonry and present an unbiased picture of the Fraternity. The book includes details of the Society's history and explains the ceremonies, secret words and signs used by Freemasons. The text of the work does not reveal the source of her information for this expose. However, in the introduction she states: 'There are few persons who do not reckon a member of the Fraternity amongst their friends or acquaintances'. Indeed Henry was also a Freemason who achieved high office later in life. It is likely that at least some of her information was obtained from her husband. During the next few years the Blakes' lives were significantly affected by the social turmoil that was sweeping through Ireland. The agricultural depression of the 187()s had caused a further deterioration in the already desperate conditions of tenant farmers. As a response to the growing discontent the Land League was founded in 1879. Its aim was to protect the tenant farmer and to abolish the landlord system. ITte League was led by Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell and they received support from many different levels of Irish Society. Prime Minister William Gladstone was determined to restore law and order to Ireland. 150 C. V. ELLWOOD&J. M. V. HARVEY -:S^- Sir Henry Arthur Blake (Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica) THE LADY BIAKE COLLECTION 151 In 1881 he introduced a severe so-called 'Coercion Bill". Part of this legislation included the suspension of habeas corpus and the appointment of five 'Special Magistrates". Henry Blake was one of these selected Magistrates who could execute wide ranging powers. It was intended that these 'Special Magistrates" should provide firm justice and thereby pacify the growing lawlessness in Ireland. This duty placed the Blakes in a very dangerous position and Henry was constantly threatened by assassination. A picture of this frightening period and the brave response to danger by Edith Blake is illustrated by the following statement that Henry Blake"s life was 'saved on several occasions by his wife's fearlessness. Lady Blake was a fine revolver shot and insisted on accompanying him wherever he went, sitting by him on his jaunting car with her revolver ready cocked in her hand below the rug and similarly armed she sat by him on the bench when he was presiding in court' (Anon., 1927). During the disturbances Blake distinguished himself with great courage and ability. However, it would not be correct to picture the Blakes as part of an upper class which had no sympathies for Irish nationalist demands. Edith Blake was a highly political woman and held nationalist connections. Indeed one of her close friends was Anna Parnell (1852-191 1 ), sister of Charles Stewart Parnell. Anna founded the radical Ladies Land League which aided the Land League by collecting information on the estates in Ireland. Charles became increasingly concerned about the activities of these ladies and dismantled its organisation. Edith expressed 'dislike and contempt for Charles Stewart Parnell' and retained 'affectionate nostalgia for Anna" (Cockburn, 1985). After serving as a 'Special Magistrate" Henry Blake applied for a colonial post in the British Empire. He had shown himself to be an extremely capable man and in 1884 he was offered the Governorship of the Bahamas. This represented a spectacular rise in his social position in a relatively short time. COLONIAL LIFE Henry Blake's appointment as Governor of the Bahamas was the first of a series of governorships which were to take the couple to many areas of the British Empire. He was Governor of the Bahamas, 1884-1887, Newfoundland, 1887-1888, Jamaica, 1889- 1897, Hong Kong, 1897-1903, and Ceylon, 1903-1907. Everywhere the Blakes went they took a deep interest in the development and conditions of the country. Henry took an active role in developing the countries' economies and Edith concerned herself with social welfare, often intervening in situations where she saw injustice or oppression. Their obvious interest in the conditions of the people made them well regarded and elicited support for many of their ideas. Edith also continued to show interest in local customs and natural history. She collected native artefacts, including pottery and stone implements, and painted the flora, fauna and landscape. Little is known about the Blakes' time in the Bahamas. As it was Henry's first appointment as Governor it is likely that he spent much of his time becoming familiar with his duties and acquainting himself with the state of the country and its people. His interest in the Colony and its progress is indicated in the following extract from a letter from Blake to Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) who was at that time Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (12 May 1881): I want to get a man for a couple of years who knows something of botany and chemistry & is capable of making analysis of soils. There is an inspector of agriculture here who knows nothing whom I desire to replace ... It strikes mc that with the ticid 152 C. V. ELLWOOD& J. M. V. HARVEY for observation so extended and lunworked) as it is here, a young man might be willing to take the post who has gone through a course of study at home ... If he were an ornithologist he could prepare specimens & make money of them as the birds are practically unknown . . . Will you kindly let me know if in your opinion such a man as I want is to be had on these terms. (Kew: Leeward Islands Letters 1864-1900; 212(579)). Kings House. Spanish Town, Jamaica, c. 1880s (Courtesy ul Ihc National l.itirary of Jamaica) As always Edith would have supported him, in addition to pursuing her particular interests in natural history and anthropology. Native Indian artefacts which she collected in the Bahamas are to be found at the Museum of the American Indian in New York (see p. 158). In 1887 Henry was posted to Newfoundland where he remained for only a year. During this short time he made a favourable impression. His travels around the country to meet people and assess the needs of the colony earned him the reputation 'of being an able and vigorous administrator, one solicitous to know the true state of the country and its resources and the real condition of its inhabitants' (Anon., 1888/)). Henry and Edith were also active in setting up the Newfoundland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They held a bazaar in Government House to raise funds and accepted the offer of the Committee to become Patron and Patroness of the Society when it was inaugurated in November 1888 (Anon., I888(/). Edith wrote a series of articles in the Evening Telegram on the "Beothuks of Newfoundland' between 26 December 1888 and 17 January 1889. In these articles she traces the history of the discovery of Newfoundland and the effect this had on the native populations. Her concern for local people shows when she says 'no Spanish freebooter or Yankee could show more utter disregard for the life of an Indian than did Britishers in THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 153 Newfoundland' [Evening Telegram 5 January 1889). The series also reveals her interest in natural history as she describes the Newfoundland countryside, identifying mosses and lichens as well as the more obvious flowers and trees. In October 1888 Henry was appointed as Governor of Queensland. However, he resigned without taking up his appointment owing to opposition from a section of the Irish residents of the Colony who resented his previous activities as 'Special Magistrate'. Instead he was made Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica, taking up the appointment on 9 March 1889. The couple again made a good impression following their arrival and spent nine years in Jamaica, the term of office being extended twice at the request of the legislature and public bodies. While in Jamaica Henry Blake worked hard to make the country better known throughout the world. He believed strongly in the future economic success of Jamaica and put energy and money into improving the island's resources. Soon after their arrival Blake wrote to Daniel Morris (1844-1933), Assistant Director at Kew (9 April 1889): 'We like Jamaica immensely. It is very lovely and I think is on the eve of considerable progress" (Kew: Jamaica Letters 1865-1900; 210(10)). Morris had previously been Director of the Public Gardens of Jamaica (1879-1886). Blake encouraged industry and development. Due to his enthusiasm, many roads and bridges were built, the railway was extended to all parts of the island, an underground system of drainage for Kingston was constructed and many new hotels were built throughout the island. Henry and Edith obviously loved Jamaica and actively advertised the 'extraordinary beauty and delight of the Island as a health resort' (Morris, 1891). Morris also says that 'the development of the tourist trade . . . was due in great measure to the efforts of himself [Henry] and Lady Blake' (Morris, 1891). One of Blake's most important initiatives was the organization of the International Exhibition of 1891, opened by George, Prince of Wales on 27 January and remaining open until 2 May. The exhibition displayed the natural and manufactured products of the island and led to improved trade and tourism (Morris, 1891; Anon., 1897). Henry was also aware of the importance of agriculture to the Jamaican economy. He took advantage of trips to England to discuss policy with Sir William Thistleton Dyer (1843-1928), Director at Kew, as this extract from a letter from Blake to Lord Ripon shows (23 October 1894): I had a long conversation today [with] Mr. (Thistleton] Dyer and Mr. Wangficid and I find there is no divergence in our views as to the course to be pursued in the matter of the Botanic Department and the question of Agricultural development financially. (BL: Lord Ripon's Papers Vol. LXXIV, Add. Mss 43564). Blake also founded the Jamaica Agricultural Society in 1895, and became its first President. Edith supported the construction of a marine laboratory to encourage visiting scientists to study the rich flora and fauna of the island (Anon., 1892a). It is in Jamaica that Edith's interest in botany, entomology and painting becomes evident. The first major flora of Jamaica, W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle's Flora of Jamaica (1910), lists both Henry and Edith as significant collectors and the authors acknowledge Blake's support, when they '. . . thank the Government of Jamaica for the loan of the whole of the material contained in the Jamaican Herbarium'. The spectacular Jamaican flora and fauna inspired Edith to spend more time at her painting. The results can be seen in this collection of drawings of plants and Lepidoptera which Clark (1898) describes: 'Lady Blake has painted from life, the caterpillars, chrysalids and adults of many of the native Lepidoptera, and her collection of over 100 watercolours of this order are a treat to the artist as well as to the entomologist'. Edith 154 r. V. ELLWOOD&J. M. V. HARVEY also painted landscapes and many of the beautifully coloured fisfi found in the Caribbean Sea (now in private collections). She was evidently well known for her interest in art: "Lady Blake did much to encourage the taste for art. she herself making many entomological drawings and some landscapes' (Sherlock. 1940). During this time Edith corresponded with Daniel Morris at Kew and sent him several consignments of seeds as this letter from Edith to Morris shows (29 September 1895): I was fortunate enough the other day to [procure] some of the seeds & two roots of that magnihccnt white lotus which I believe was supposed to have disappeared from this island. The flowers are beautiful, as large if not larger than those of the Victoria Regia ... I send you three of the seeds in case you have not already got them . . . (Kew: Jamaica L.ctters 186.'5-19(X); 210(8)). (The letter is annotated ".'Nelumbium luteum 3 seeds, quite dead WW). Henry and Edith lived in King's House, the official residence of the Governor, throughout their stay in Jamaica. They planted the garden with many ornamental palms, orchids, ferns and other plants and maintained attractive borders. The garden was considered one of the most attractive ornamental gardens in Jamaica (Morris. 1891). Edith's interest in anthropology continued and there are specimens from Jamaica in the Museum of the American Indian (see p. 158). When Henry was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in 1898 their loss to Jamaica was regretted; 'For the past nine years natural science in Jamaica has enjoyed the patronage and support in countless ways of his Excellency Sir Henry Blake, the Governor of the island and his estimable wife . . ." (Clarke. 1898). Henry and Edith arrived in Hong Kong at a difficult time politically and it seems likely there was little opportunity for Edith to continue with her own interests. Certainly there is little information on her during this period. Henry continued to show enthusiasm and dedication to his work and Edith no doubt continued to support him. Blake's major task was to take over the New Territory leased by China to Great Britain in June 1898. The many arguments over concessions to China produced an atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 added to the tension. Blake supported the retention of Chinese law and customs and hoped that the New Territory could be administered through existing Chinese headmen. Although this did not work in practice his support for the Chinese cause won him many friends. Plague became endemic during this period, adding to Blake's problems. He was one of the first to accept that the plague was carried by rats. He initiated a scheme to pay 2 cents per rat killed, which had to be abandoned when it was discovered that the Chinese imported rats from the mainland to collect the reward! He continued with extensive disinfestation and disinfection programmes which failed to make much impact. There was much disagreement as to the source of the infection and even the Medical Officer of Health was of the opinion that 'it was more probable that rats caught plague from men than that men were infected through rats' (Endacott, 1965). Blake corresponded with Thistleton Dyer about his experiments on treating the plague. This letter written by Blake from Ceylon indicates his interest (2 February I9(M): ... I entered upon the experiment because I wanted in the first place to try to enlist the people which in China can always be accomplished by those who treat them properly & who have acquired their confidence ... as it turned out my plan so far succeeded that the professional men have endeavoured to follow the same lines . . . (Kew: Ceylon, Aiden & Persian Letters 1901 1914; 164(171)). THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 155 In 1898, Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) discovered that malaria was carried and trans- mitted by the mosquito and Henry again acted promptly. He employed Professor W. Simpson of the London School of Tropical Medicine to deal with the control of mosquitoes in Hong Kong. Henry and Edith continued to show interest in botany. Two species of oak, native in the New Territories of Hong Kong, are separately named after the couple. Quercus hlakei 'is named after the distinguished Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G., from whom botanical investigations in the colony have received constant support and encouragement" and Q. edithae is named after Edith Blake (Skan, 1901). The floral emblem of Hong Kong, the rare Hong Kong orchid tree Bauhinia blakeana, is also named in tribute to the Blakes. It commemorates their 'kindly interest taken in the Hongkong Botanic Gardens' (Dunn, 1908). When Henry was appointed Governor of Ceylon in 1903, petitions were sent from Hong Kong to London urging for an extension of his term of office, but were unsuccessful. He had again proved a popular Governor: '. . . he not only managed to win the support of the vast majority of the population, and most importantly the business community and the Legislative Council, but managed to translate this support into effective action for the betterment of Hong Kong' (Routledge, 1980). Before their departure in November 1903 the Blakes were honoured by a ceremony marking the Colony's appreciation, especially in regard to the efforts made to improve the treatment of victims of the plague. They were presented with an embroidered canopy and a speech was made thanking Blake for his sympathy and support of the poorer citizens. The country greatly interested Blake and he later published a book on the country's history and customs entitled China (1909). He included anecdotes from this time as Governor and an extract from an address given by Edith on the position of women in China. Evidence of the Blake's interest in botany while in Ceylon appears in letters at Kew. Soon after his arrival Henry wrote to Thistleton Dyer (2 February 1904): ... I think wc have an excellent staff here at Pcradcniya, but to my mind the horticultural [sic] is not sufficiently looked into. Man cannot live by bread alone and I want to sec more prominent floral attraction where so many people visit. It need not interfere with the solid work of the department but even here there might be interesting & valuable experiments in hybridisation. I wish you would give a hint to Mr. Willis . . . (Kew: Ceylon. Aiden & Persian Letters 1901-1914; 164(171)). The 'Mr. Willis' referred to is John Christopher Willis (1868-1958), Director of the Botanic Garden at Peradeniya, 1896-1911. In 1904 Blake started an Agricultural Society on the same lines as that in Jamaica which was 'faring splendidly" in September 1905 when he wrote to Thistleton Dyer (Kew: West Indies Letters 1893-1916; 164(179)). Edith continued to send plants to Kew and also to William Fawcett (1851-1926) who was collecting plants in Jamaica (17 April 1905): 'The mango & banana plants that you wanted have been despatched to you from Peradeniya via Kew'. She also offered advice on keeping silk worms: 'If the silk worms were kept in sheds that had net over the doors & windows to [keep] out flies, they ought to do well in Jamaica. I had some of a kind that eat castor oil plants at Kandy' (Kew: West Indies Letters 1893-1916; 208(379)). When she and Henry visited London in September 1905 she brought insects and plants with her. 156 C. V. ELl.WOOD&J. M. V. HARVKY Henry retired as Governor of Ceylon and from the colonial service in 1907 at the age of 67 years. He had a long and successful career which earned him respect and popularity which Edith had also shared. AFTER RETIREMENT The following year the Blakes returned to their beloved Jamaica on a triumphant visit. They arrived on Christmas day and received a great welcome which included official addresses and a public banquet (Anon.. 1918). On their return to Ireland, they settled into Myrtle Grove, a Tudor House in Youghal. County Cork. Tliey carried out extensive repairs and alterations to the house which had once been the residence of Sir Walter Raleigh. During his retirement Henry Blake resumed his interest in Irish reform work. He contributed many articles on Irish topics to reviews such as the Nineteenth Century. Due to his wide experience in colonial affairs he was consulted about the system of Crown Colony Government for Ireland. He accepted a seat as a Southern Unionist in the Irish Convention which was established in 1917 in response to demands for Home Rule. Henry Blake died on 23 February 1918. The Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society published an obituary which described him as 'A man of a broad and well-cultured mind an interesting and delightful lecturer" (Lee. 1918). On hearing of Sir Henry's death the Legislative Council in Jamaica passed a resolution of condolence to Edith and stated that his "administration of the affairs of Jamaica for many years improved this colony considerably to the best interest of the people" (Anon.. 1918). The death of Henry Blake was a tragic loss for Edith and subsequently she would rarely leave the house except to sit in the garden (Cockburn. 1985). She suffered from rheumatism and wore only mourning black. Her great desire to be once more in contact with her husband lead her to seek the services of a medium. Miss Barlow. She was one of only a few visitors to the house during this sad time. Edith died at Myrtle Grove on 18 April 1926. THE COLLECTION The Lady Blake Collection consists of 196 drawings of Jamaican Lepidoptera and plants. Most of the drawings are finished watercolours depicting the life cycle of Lepidoptera. The butterfly or moth is frequently illustrated with a plant which in many examples is the foodplant of the larva. Larval damage to the plant is also shown. Most of the Lepidoptera drawings are accurate and illustrate the different stages in the life cycle. The egg stage is never illustrated. The larval stage and. in some examples, the different larval instars are depicted. Larvae are often shown in their characteristic feeding position. The damage caused to the plants by the larvae is clearly and accurately recorded. This aspect of the collection is of special interest and value as it provides details of the larval foodplants. Heineman (Brown & Heineman, 1972) wrote in his work on Jamaican butterflies: 'There is a crying need for lepidopterists to work on the life histories of butterflies. In many instances we do not know the food plant of the larvae.' THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 157 The pupae are accurately drawn either attached to the plant or separately when the larva pupates away from its foodplant. Most adults are shown in flight but occasionally are depicted at rest. For some drawings it has not been possible to determine whether the adult is male or female. A few Hymenoptera and Diptera are also illustrated. For example Drawing no. 66 illustrates Tachinid adults and puparia. Drawing no. 53 includes the only non-insect animal species, a lizard (Anolis sp.) which is commonly found in Jamaica. The plant illustrations vary in their quality and detail and clearly have not received the same level of attention as the Lepidoptera. Over one-third of the drawings have been accurately identified. Many of the more common plants found in Jamaica are illustrated including introduced species. The drawings consist of watercolour on paper. To provide greater body to some of the illustrations, varnish and gouache have also been used. Most of the drawings are completed although a few are unfinished studies of plants or Lepidoptera. Drawings vary from delicate works with well-balanced composition to bold and dramatic images. Edith's technique was obviously that of an amateur; although quite detailed, many of the plant illustrations appear rather flat on the page. A wide range of papers have been used throughout the collection including some dyed blue. This suggests that Edith did not have access to a large stock of standard paper and used anything suitable as it became available. The drawings were not simply the result of artistic interest. Edith spent time collecting and rearing Lepidoptera and made observations about their life cycle. She also kept a natural history notebook, which is referred to in Drawing no. 74. moreover many of the drawings have been annotated by her. The annotations include tentative identifications of Lepidoptera and notes and observations on the dates of pupation and adult emergence. These notes show that she took pupae with her during voyages from Jamaica. For example Drawing no. 170 includes a note that she took a pupa home to England in 1894; the adult emerged in London. HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION On Edith Blake's death in 1926 her daughter, Olive Arbuthnot. presented the collection to the British Museum (Natural History). This occurred on the recommendation of Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937) and Dr Charles Gahan (1862-1939), Keeper of the Department of Entomology. The drawings were sorted and stamped numerically in the centre of each sheet. It was recognised that they provided valuable information about the Lepidoptera and flora of Jamaica. Norman D. Riley (1890-1979), Keeper of Entomology at the Museum, made a preliminary study of the collection and his pencil notes of possible identifications appear on the drawings. During 1984, as part of a programme of conservation in the Department of Library Services, the drawings were treated by a specialist paper conservator. Each drawing was cleaned and mounted in acid-free paper folders and protected by a sheet of Melinex. In 1987 two drawings, nos. 13 and 17, were loaned to the National Gallery of Ireland and were included in an exhibition, 'Irish Women Artists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day' (National Gallery of Ireland & Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1987). This supported the recognition of Lady Blake as a notable amateur Irish artist. 158 r. V. EI.IWOOD & J. M. V. harvey PUBLICATIONS Sir Henry Arthur Blake 1880. Pictures from Ireland (as Terence M'Grath). 2()6pp. London. 1881. 2nd ed. 206pp. London. 1881. 3rd ed. 206pp. London. 1896. Jamaica: photographs of the principal bridges erected in the island from l/i'Jd to IS95. Kingston. (Held in the West India Library of the Institute of Jamaica; not seen.) 1907. Progress of the colony of Ceylon. 190'4^1907. 57pp. Colombo. 1909. China (illustrations by M. Menpes). vii. 138pp. London. Lady Edith Blal. 2 larvae on leaf. Plant: Fam. Caesalpiniaceae Delonix regia (Boj. ex Hook.) Raf. (Flamboyant. Poinciana) Stem and leaves. No larval damage. Size: 350 x 249 mm Notes: D. regia is an introduced ornamental from Madagascar. 162. Moth: Fam. Psychidae Oiketicus sp. 2 larvae on leaves. Plant: Fam. Combretaccae Terminalia catappa L. (West Indian Almond) Stem, leaves and flowers. Shows larval damage. Size: 314 x 453 mm Notes: Larvae are shown feeding from their characteristic larval cases. 163. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Probably Mesocondyla concordalis Hiibner 1 larva on leaf; I pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Bignoniaceae C'rescenlia cujete 1,. (Calabash Tree) THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 191 No. 16() Epiplemidae (moth); Stachytarphela mulahilis (Jacq.) Vahl (plant) 192 C. V. ELLWOOD & J. M. V. HARVEY Stem and leaves. Shows lanal damage. Annotations: r [ink] Chrysalis formed about 18th Nov. Moth emerged .'^Dth Nov. 1893'; v [pencil] 'Spun up about 18th Nov' Size: 508 x 237 mm 164. Moth: Fam. Lasiocampidae Tilya sp. 2 larval nests suspended from stems; 7 larvae on leaves, stem and outside of larval nest; 1 cocoon on stem; 2 adult females in flight. 1 adult female at rest. Plant: Fam. Rosaceae Prunus mynifoha (L.) Urb. (Ant's Wood, Wild Cassada) Stems, leaves and flowers. Shows larval damage. rut/. e„,o,feJ: /rT f^^y /^t' No. 164 Tuya sp. (moth); I'runus myrtifolia (L.) Urb. (plant) THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 193 Annotations: r [ink) 'On the night of April 13th the cateipillars fed, after this they retired permanently into their purse-like nest, in which they assumed the chrysalis stage. Moth emerged 15th May 95.' Size 456 x 3.V) mm 165. Moth: [1] Fam. Limacodidae Alarodia nana Moschler 4 larvae on stems and leaves; 6 pupae on stems; 2 adults in flight, 3 adults at rest. Moth: [2] Unidentified 1 adult in flight, 1 adult at rest. Plant: Fam. Anacardiaceae Spondias sp. Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 16th Julv Moth emerged 1st August 1893" Size: 456 x 3.311 mm 166. Moth: [1] Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Probably Epicorsia sp. near oedipodalis Guenee and cerata Fabricius 1 pupa (cocoon) on leaf; 2 adult males in flight. Moth: |2| Unidentified 2 larvae on leaves. Plant: Fam. Possibly Rubiaceae or Acanthaceae Annotations: r [ink] 'Cocoon spun 23d Nov. Moth emerged 9th Dec. 1893"; v [pencil] 'Chrysalis formed 23d Nov' Size: 457 x 331 mm 167. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Mesocondyhi concnrdalisWuhncx 2 larvae on leaf; I pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Bignoniaceae Tabehuia nifescens J. R. Johnston (Yellow Poui) Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage and dipterous leaf mine. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 17th Feb. Moth emerged 5th March, 94'; 'Bolys gastralis. Guenee'; i' [pencil] 'Chrysalis 17th Feb.' Size: 457 x 331 mm 168. Moth: Fam. Psychidae Oikelicus sp. 2 larvae on leaf. Plant: Fam. Palmac (Arecaceae) Palm leaf. Size: 3.31) x 4.56 mm Notes: The drawing shows the portable larval cases of a pair of Oiketicus. In one the larva is retracted and in the other the larva is protruded and feeding. 169. Mf)TH: Fam. Pyralidae: Phycitinac Probably Elasmopalpiis lignnsella Zcller 1 larva on pod; I pupa on pod; I adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Papilionaceac (Fabaceae) Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. (Gungo Pea, Pigeon Pea) Stem, leaves, flowers and pods. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] Caterpillar fastened itself up 19th Feb. Moth emerged 9th March 97' Size: 351 x 248 mm Notes: Plant is unfinished sketch. 170. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Conchylodes diphteralis Geyer 2 larvae on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Possibly Boraginaceae Cordia gerascanthus L. (Juvenile) Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage and pest damage (possibly mites). Annotations: r [ink] 'Caterpillar fastened itself up m leaf 3d March. King's House. Moth emerged in London Kith May 1894'; r [pencil] 'Fastened up leaves 3d March' Size: 238 x 301 mm 171. MOTIL Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Syngtimia haemorrhoidalis Guenee 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Papilionaceac (Fabaceae) Teramnus uncinatus (L.) Sw. Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. 194 C. V. ELLWOOD& J. M. V. HARVEY Annotations: r [ink) 'Chrysalis formed 28th August. Moth emerged 7th Sept 1893." Size: 307 x 242 mm 172. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Diaphania hvalinala L. 2 larvae on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Pi ANT: Fam. Cucurbitaceae 1 leaf. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] "Chrysalis formed 2d Jan 93. Moth emerged 14th Jan." Size: 3(X) x 236 mm 173. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Hoterodes ausoiua Cramer 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Burseraceae Bursera simaruba (L.) Sarg. (Red Birch) Stem and leaves. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink) 'Chrysalis formed 1st June. Moth emerged about 1 1th June 97.' Size: 249 x 352 mm 174. Moth: Fam. Probably Pyralidae: Pyraustinae 2 larvae on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Possibly Asclcpiadaceae Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 28th Feb. Moth emerged 1 1th March 97' Size: 350 x 248 mm 175. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Syllepte sp.. possibly S. prorogata Hampson 3 larvae on leaves; 1 pupa on leaf; 2 adult males in flight. Plant: Unidentified Large alternate leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 19th Dec. Moth emerged 29th Dec. 1894"; v [pencil] 'Chrysalis formed 19th Dec' Size: 255 x 355 mm 176. MoTH: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Desmia sp 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa drawn separately; 1 adult (probably female) in flight Plant: Fam. Myrtaceae Psidium guajaval.. (Guava) Stem and leaves. Shows lar\al damage Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 23d Dec. 96 Moth emerged 5th Jan 1897' Size: 248 x 185 mm 177. Moth: [1| Fam Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Syngamia florella Cramer 1 larva on stem; 1 pupa on stem; 1 adult in flight. Moth: [2| Unidentified. 2 larvae on leaf. Plant: Fam. Possibly Rubiaceae Stem and leaves. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 1 Chrysalis formed 25th Oct. Moth emerged 4th Nov. 1893.'; ^■ [pencil] 'Chrysalis formed 25 [[Kith Sept.]] Oct' Size: 300 x 256 mm 178. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Probably Udea sp. 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; I adult (probably male) in flight. Plant: Fam. Possibly Legummosae Stem and leaves. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] Caterpillar began to turn 29th May Moth emerged 14th June. 96' Size: 351 x 248 mm 179. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Nymphulinae Possibly /1ri;vraf/(,s sp. 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult (possibly male) in flight. Plant: Fam. Araccae Pixiia stratuHes 1.. (Water Lettuce) Plant floating on water. No larval damage. THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 195 Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 22d March. Moth emerged 31st March. 95" Size: 255 x 133 mm 180. Moth: Fam. Pyrahdae: Pyraustinae Phoslria hiimeralis Gucnee. 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 2 adult males in flight. Plant: Fam. Mimosaceae Inga vera Willd. (Panchock, River Koko) Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] Chrysalis formed 25 Dec 96 Moth emerged 6th Jan 97' Size: 351 x 248 mm 181. Moth: Fam. Pyralidac: Pyraustinae Probably Pilocrocis hvpoleucaUs Hampson 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 2 adult females in flight. Plant: Fam. Solanaccac Solanum americanum Mill. (Black Nightshade, Gouma) Stem, leaves, flowers and fruit. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink over pencil| 'Chrysalis formed 3d Feb. Moth emerged 18th Feb. 94.' Size: 306 x 242 mm 182. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Possibly Pilocrocis glaucusalis Walker 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Moraceae Ficits cilrifolia Mill. Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink| 'Chrysalis formed 10th August, Moth emerged 20th August. 1893.' Size: 345 x 239 mm 183. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Possibly Acrospila gaslralis Guenee 1 larva on leaf, 1 pupa on leaf; 2 adult males in flight Plant: Fam. Bignoniaceae Tecoma slans (L.) Kunth Stem, leaves and flowers. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] Chrysalis formed 5th Jan. Moth emerged 19th Jan. 1894'; 'Batys gastralis Guenee'; v [pencil| 'Chrysalis 5th Jan' Size: 300 x 238 mm 184. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Probably Epipagis mopsalis Walker 1 larva on leaf; I pupa on leaf; 1 adult female in flight. Plant: Fam. Melastomataccae Miconia laevigata (L.) DC (Johnny Berry, White Wattle) Stem and leaves. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 20th August. Moth emerged 6th Sept 93' Size: 307 x 242 mm 185. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Phoslria sp., possibly P. fulvicaucla Hampson 39 larvae grouped together on one leaf; 7 pupae on one leaf; 3 adult males in flight. Plant: Fam. Caesalpiniaccae Bauhinia sp. Stem and leaves. No larval damage. Annotations: r Jink] Chrysalis formed 28th Nov Moth emerged 12th Dec 1893'; v [pencil] '28th Nov' Size: 306 x 242 mm Notes: This is possibly an undescribed species. 186. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Glaphyrinae Symphysa discalis Hampson 3 larvae on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult male at rest, 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Capparaceae Possibly Cralevasp. Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [pencil] 'L. 25th Feb.' Size: 299 x 238 mm Notes: 5. discalis is endemic to Jamaica. 187. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Sylleple silicalis Guenee 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 2 adult males in flight. Plant: Fam. Probably Urticaccae Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 23d Dec. 92 Moth emerged 8th Jan 93" J9(, C. V. ELLWOOU&J. M. V. HARVFY Sizu; 31X) X 235 mm Notes: Specimen from Jamaica m BM(NH) feeding on Boehmena sp (Urticaceae). 188. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Pyraustinac Pilocroas inpunclaia Fabricius 1 larva on leaf; 1 cocoon on plant; 1 adult male in flight. Plant: Fam. Convolvulaceac Ipomoea sp. Tendril with leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Botys campalis = Guenee'; v [pencil] Chrysalis formed 4th Oct. Emerged 5th Nov." Size: 306 x 242 mm 189. Moth: Fam. Pyralidae: Crambinae Microcramhus sp. 1 larva on stem; 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 2 adults in flight. Pi ant: Fam. Papilionaceae (Fabaccae) Imliaofera subulahi Poir, Stem, leaves and flowers. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 2d Sept. Moth emerged Kith Sept 1893" Size: 300 x 236 mm 190. Moth: Unidentified 1 larva on leaf; 2 pupae on leaf; I adult in flight. Plant: Fam. Possibly Apocynaceae Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r Jink] 'Chrysalis formed 11th Feb. Moth emerged 21st Feb. 94. ; v |pcncil| •Chrysalis 11th Feb.' Size: 457 x 330 mm 191. Moth: Fam. Tortncidae Platynota rostrana Walker 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult in flight; 1 adult at rest. Plant: Fam. Passifloraeeae Passiflora suberosa L. Stem, leaves and fruit. No larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed Uth Feb Moth emerged 21st Feb 94 ; r |pcncil| •Chrvsalis nth Feb' Size: 238 x 143 mm 192. Moth: Fam. Tortncidae Platynota rostrana Walker 2 larvae on leaves; 2 adults in flight, 1 adult at rest. Plant: Fam. Anacardiaceae Spondias mombin 1.. Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 4th Dec Moth emerged 13th Dec. 96' Size: 149 x .354 mm 193. Moth: Fam. Possibly Tortricidae 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult in flight. Pi ANT: Fam. Urticaceae Pitea sp. Stem and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r Jink) 'Chrysalis formed 22d Feb. Moth emerged 2d March 97" Size: 300 x 184 mm 194. Moth: Unidentified 3 larvae on leaves; 1 pupa on leaf; 1 adult in flight. Plant: Fam. Labiatae (Lamiaceae) Hyptis capilata Jacq. (Ironwort, Wild Caesar Obeah) 1 stem with leaves; I dead stem with old inflorescences. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 18th August Moth emerged 25th August. 1893.' Size: 507 x 238 mm 195. Moth: Fam. Pterophoridae: Pterophorinae Plerophorux sp. 1 larva on leaf; 1 pupa on tendril; 2 adults at rest on leaf Plant: Fam. Convolvulaceac Ipomoea sp. Tendril and leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r ]ink] 'Chrysalis formed 30th April Moth developed 7th May 1896' Size: 300 x 236 mm THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 197 196. Moth: Fam. Noctuidae: Hadcninac Faronia diffusa Walker (Wheat Head Armyworm) 2 larvae on leaves; 1 pupa drawn separately; 1 adult at rest, 1 adult in flight. Plant: Fam. Gramineae (Poaceac) Leaves. Shows larval damage. Annotations: r [ink] 'Chrysalis formed 18th Jan Moth emerged 7th Feb. 94.'; v [pencil] 'Chrysalis 18th Jan. emerged 7th Feb' Size: 300 x 238 mm Index of Lepidoptera Names Numbers refer to catalogue entries. Family names are in bold, genus and species names are in italics. Catalogue numbers marked with an asterisk indicate uncertain identifications. Achyra similalis 120 Acrospila gastralis 183* Adelpha ahyla 28 Agraulis vanillae insidaris 17. 18 Agrius cingidala 146 Agrotis sp. 80 Alarodia nana 165 Amastus ramona 61 Ammalo sp. 59 Anartia jatrophae jamaicensis 25 Anastriis sempitermis dilloni 3>1 Anomis editrix 82, 96'. 102. 112 Anomis erosa 75 Anleos maerida maerula 1 1 Anlillea proclea 2 1 Antillean Great White 6 Anlillcan Malachite 24 Appias drusilla jacksoni 5 Aquna asander jasper 32 Arctiidae 50, 53, 54. 55, 56, 58. 59, 60, 61. 62, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70 Are marginata 68. 69, 70 Argyractis sp. 179* Asander 32 Ascalapha odorata 72 Ascia moniiste euhotea 6 Bagisara repanda 91 . 1 22 Battiis poh'damiis jamaicensis 1 Black Witch 72 Bourke's Hairstreak 29 Cabares potrillo potriUo 33 Callopistria fiortdensis 119 Calpodes ethlius 40 Canna Skipper 40 Cloudless Sulphur 12 Cocylius antaeus anlaeus 138 Colohura dirce avinoffi 26 Common Dusky Wing 35. 36* Common Tailed Skipper 30 Composia credida 64 Conchylodes diphteralis 170 Confusing Branded Skipper 43 Cosmosoma auge 56 Cramer's Barred Sulphur 8 Ctenuchidae 53 Danaus gilippus jamaicensis 13 Desmia sp. 176 Diaphania hyalinata 172 Dichogama redtenhacheri 76* Dillon's Dusky Wing 37 Dinia mena 53 Diphthera festiva 105 Dirce 26 Dorcas 27 Dry as iulia deliia 16 Elasmopalpus lignosella 169 Empyreuma anassa 55 Eriyo lugubris latipennis 128 Ephyrlades areas phileman 34* Ephyriades zephodes 34* Epicorsia cerata 166' Epicorsia oedipodalis 166* Epidromia suffusa 108 Epipagis mopsalis 184* Epiplemidae 160' Ennnyis alope 130 Ermnyisello 127, 136*, 140. 149 Eumorpha fascialus 133, 145, 158 Eumorpha labnvicae 126. 131, 141* Eumorpha satellida salellitia 142 Eumomia rubripunctata 54 Euptoieta claudia claudia 19, 20 Eurema daira paimira 7 Eurema elathea 8 Eurema lisa euterpe 9 Euschirropierus poeyi 67 198 Evans' Jamaican Skipper 31 Fabricius' Hairy Dusky Wing 34" Fall Armyworm 77. 101 Faronta diffusa 196 Frangipani Sphinx 134 94, \W\ no. 111, Gaudy Sphinx 126. 131. 141' Geometridae 29, 52. 73, 92. 93. 154. 155. 156. 157 Gesta gesla gesla 35, 36" Giant Sphinx 138 Gonodonta Clotilda 117* Gonodonla incurx'a 74 Gonodonola nutrix 1 17 Gonodonola uxoria 74 Heliconius chariloniics simulalor 14, 15 Heliothis subjiexa 95* Helioihis virescens 95* Hesperiidae 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. 35. 36. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41.42,43 Heterosmaitia bourkei 29 Hieroglyphic Moth 105 Hisloris odius odius 26 Homerus Swallowtail 4 Hoterodes aitsonia 173 Hiibner's Hairy Dusky Wing 34* Hyalurga leucophaea 50 Hyblaea puera 100 Hyblaeidae 100 Hyles lineata 151 Hypercompe nigriplaga 60 Jamaican Admiral 28 Jamaican Albatross 5 Jamaican Crescent-Spot 21 Jamaican Polydamus 1 Jamaican Queen 13 Jamaican Swallowtail 3 Jamaican White Peacock 25 Jamaican Zebra 14. 15 Julia 16 Jummia evarete zonalis 22. 23 Khcogonia lyside 10 Lasiocampidae 164 I-atrcillc's Cane Skipper 41 IJmacodidae 165 Little Sulphur 9 Lucas Skipper 33 l.ycaenidae 29. 44' lAmantriidae 63. 66* Lysidc 10 Macnila H C. V. ELLWOOD&J. M. V. HARVEY Manduca sp. 147' Manduca quinquemaculata 125". 139 Manduca rustica rustica 143, 148 Manduca scxta 125' Melanochroia chephi.se 157* Melipoiis famelica 98 Mesocondyla concordalis 163*, 167 Meslra dorcas 27 Microcramhus sp. 189 Mocis sp . 114 Mythimna sp. 1 16 Noctuidae67. 72. 74. 75. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83", 84. 85. 86. 87, 88. 90. 91. 95, 96. 97*. 98. 99. 101. 102. 103, 104*. 105. 106, 107. 108. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 121*, 122. 123', 159*. 196 Notodontidae 49 Nycleltus nvctclius nyclelius 41 Nymphalidae 13. 14. 15, 16. 17, 18, 19,20,21,22,23. 24.25.26.27.28 Oiketicus sp. 161. 162. 168 Oraesia excitans 99 Orion 26 Owl Moth 87 Oxydiasp.lV, 110, 111 Pachylia fictis 129. 144 Panoquina sylvicola woodruffi 42 Papilio homerus 4 Papilio thersiles 2 Papilio thoas melonius 3 Papilionidae 1.2.3.4 Paraeuchaetes insulata 58, 65 Perichares philetes philetes 43 Phoebis sennae sennae 12 Phostria fulvicauda 185' Phostria humeralis 180 Pieridae5.6. 7.8, 9. 10, II, 12 Pilocrocis sp. 84 Pilocrocis glaucusalis 182* Pilocrocis hvpoleucalis 181* Pilocrocis ramentalis 1 18 Pilocrocis tripunctaia 1S8 Platynota sp. 37 Platynota rostrana 191. 192 Polygoniis leo hagar 31 Protambuhx singilis 137 Psfudoplusia includen.s 1 (►6 Psvudosphinx tclrio 134 Psychidae 161. 162. 168 Pterophoridae 52, 195 Ptcrophonv, sp. 195 P>ralidae 51. 53. 71.76.84. 118, 120. 163. 166. 167. 169. 170. 171, 172. 173, 174*. 175. 176, 177. 178. 179. 180. 181, 182. 183. 184, 185. 186. 187. 188. 189 Pyrgus oileus 38 THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 199 Pyrrhocaltes faniaicensis 39 Rivula sp. U-S* Rustic Sphinx 143. 148 Sameii sp. 71 * Schaus' Skipper 39 Siproeta stelenes stelenes 24 Soybean Looper 106 Spanish Molh 85 Sphingidae 124, 125, 126, 127, 12S, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137. 138 142, 143, 144, 145. 146. 147. 148. Spodoptera androgea rubnfusa 79 Spodopfera frugiperda 71 , 101 Spodoptera latifascia ^U Spodoptera ornilhogalli 81 Slenoptvcha sp. 51 Sweet Potato Horn worm 146 Sylleple prorogata 1 75 * Sylleple sUicalis 1 87 Syrfjphysa discalis 1 86 Syngartiia florella 177 Syngamia haemorrhouialis 53', 171 Syntomidopsis variegala 53 Syrichtus 38 12^. 130. 131. 139. 140. 141. 149, 150,151, 158 Thersitcs Swallowtail 2 Thysania zenobia 87 Tit\a sp. 164 Tomato Hornworm 125*. \}>*^ Tortricidae37. 47*,48*, 191, 192. 193' Tropical Silverspot 17, 18 Udea sp. 178' (Jrbanus proteus 3U Vtelhcisa bella 62 Variegated Fritillary 19. 20 Watson's Cane Skipper 42 West Indian Buckeye 22, 23 Wheat Head Armyworm 196 White-lined Sphinx 151 Xanlhopaslis timais 85 Xylophar^essp. 124*. 135 Xylophanes lersa 132, 150 Yellow Scallop Moth 75 Yellow-striped Armyworm 81 Zale fictilis 1>^ Index of Plant Names Numbers refer to catalogue entries. Family names are in bold, genus and species names are in italics. Catalogue numbers marked with an asterisk indicate uncertain identifications. Aaron's Rod 1 1 Acacia tnacracanlha 46 Acacia lorluosa 98 Acanthaceae21.24.25, 118*. 166* Aeschvnomene sp 94 Albizia lebbeck 72 Amaryllidaceae 85. 106 Anacardiaceae 137. 156, 165. 192 Angels Trumpet 66 Annonaceae 138 Ant's Wood 164 Apocynaceae 55, 134. 190* Araceae 17^ Arecaceae see Palmae Aristolochia trdobaia 1 Aristolochiaceae 1 Asclepiadaceae 13, 174* Asclepias curassavica 13 Asteraceae see Compositae Ballard Bush 83. 96 Bastard Cherry 57 Bastard Ironwood 2, 3 Bauhtnia sp. 1H5 Bauhinia monandra 32* BesleruiluteaW, 70 Bignoniaceae KK), 163. 167. 183 Bird Pepper 51 Black Nightshade IKl Blechnaceae 1 19 Blechnum sp, 1 19 Blechumsp. 118* Boerhavia coccinea 52 Boerhavia erecla 151 Boraginaceac 45. 50. 57. 143, 170* Borrcria Uievis 150 Broomweed 38 BrowaHia arnericana 48 Bur MalK)wH3.96 Bur Weed 82. 102 Bursera simaruha 173 Burseraceae 173 2(X) Button Weed 150 Cacsalpiniaceae 12, 32. 92. 95. 154V 161. 185 Cajanus cajan 169 Calabash Tree 163 Carina sp. 40' Cannaceae 40* Capparaceae 6, 127*. 186* Capsicum sp, 147* Capsicum frutescens 5 1 Cassava 140 Cassia sp. 87' Cassia absus 95 Cassia emarginata 12 Cassia pilosa 92 Catalpa longissima 1 (K) Cayenne Pepper 51 Ct'cropia peltata 26. 61 Cecropiaceae 26. 61 Cenirosema virginianum 30 Ceslrum diurnum 107 Cheesy Toes 8. 44 Cheramina 157 Chilli 51 Christmas Bush 58. 65 Cissampelos pareira 99 Cissus sicyoides 128*. 141 Cissits verticillata see Cissus sicyoides Citrus 73 Clammy Bur 33. 123 Cleome spinosa 6 Cockspur 67 Cocos nucifera 39 Combretaceae 162 Compositae 47. 56. 58. 65. 6H. 113 Convolvulaceae54. 103. 146. 18.'. 195 Cordia brownei 143' Cordia gerascanlhus 170 Cordia jamaicensis 143* Cow Foot 74 Cralevasp. 127', 186* Crescentia cujete 1 63 Crinum sp. 85' Crolalarta retusa 62 Cucurbitaceae 172 Datura candida 66 DelonLx regia 161 Desmanthus virgalus 93 Desmodium tortuosum 53* Dtcliptera sexangularis 2 1 Dogwood 3 1 Donkey Weed 8. 44 Dunalia arborescens 84* Duppy Gun 25 Ehretia tinifolia 57 C. V. ELLWOOD&J. M. V. HARVI-Y Ericaceae 89' Euchans grandifiora 106 Euchanst L.ily 106 Eupatorium odoratum 58. 65 Euphorbia hiria 149 Euphorbiaceae27. 127*. 140. 149. 157 Fabaceae see Papilionaceae Fagara pieroia 2. 3 Fasten-'pon-Coat 33, 123 Fatten Barrow 47, 113 F(a«sp.34'.59. 129. 144* Fict4s citrifolia 1 82 Fingrigo 67 Flamboyant 161 Frangipani 134 French Oak 100 Fresh Cut 24 Geraniaceae St Gesneriaceae 69. 70. 153 Gliricuiia septum 1 1 Golden Apple 14. 15, 17 Gouma 18! Graniineae41.42.43.44, 101, 113, 114. 115. 116. 196 Grape (European or Wine) 132. 142 Ground Tamarind 93 Grow Stick 1 1 Guaco 56, 68 Guaiacum officinale H) Guatemala Indigo 36 Guava37,49. 108. 111. 159, 176 Gully Bean 104 Gungo Pea 169 Heluonia sp, 40* Helictmiaceae 40* Hetioiropium indicum 50 Hernandia calalpifolia 4 Hernandiaceae 4 Hcvtu hnisdwnsis 127* Hibiscus sp. 130* Hippeasirum sp. 85* Hog Weed 52 Hxptts capttala 194 Hxptis suaveolens 71 , 90 Indian Corn 101 Indigofera subulata 189 Indigofera suffruiicosa 36 Inga vera 180 Ipomoea sp. 146. 188. 195 Irish Potato 80 Ironwort W4 Jack-in-the-bush 58. 65 Jamaican Forgel-me-not 48 THE LADY BLAKE COLLECTION 201 Jamaican Plum 137 Jasminum grandifiorum KJM Jimbling 157 Johnny Berry ^7, 1K4 Justicia sp. 118* Justicia pecionilis 24 Ubiatae7I,90, 194 Lamiaceae see Labiatae Lasiacis sp. lis Leguminosae79*,87, 120, 178* Lepianthes umbellata see Pothonwrphe umbelUiia Lignum Vitac 10 Ludwigia octovalvis 133. 14? Lycoperskon esculentum 131 Macroptilium lathy roides 121 Maize 101 Malvaceae 38, 75. 83. 91. 96, 122, 130* Malvastrum sp. 91* Mangifera indica 1 56 Mango 156 Manihot esculenla 140 Markham Gungo 36 Mast Wood \m Melastomataceae 97, 184 Meliaceae 152 Menispermaceae 99 Menow Weed 25 Merremia aegyptia 54* Merremia quinquefolia 54*. 103 Miconia laevigata 97*. 184 Mikania mkrarxtha 56. 68 Mimosa pudica 9 Mimosaceae 9. 46. 72, 93, 98. 180 Moraceae 34*. 59, 129, 144*, 182 MiLssaenda treutleri 28 Myrsinaceae 89* Myrlaceae37.49. 108. Ill, 159, 176 Nicotiana sp. 84* Nightsage 55 Nightshade 55 Nyctaginaceae 52, 67, 151 Oleaceae HW Onagraceae 133, 145 Orange 73* Otaheite Gooseberry 157 Palmae39. 168 Panchock 180 Panicum maximum 42*, 43* Papilionaceae 8, 11.30.31,35.36.44.53.62.94, 121. 169. 171. 189 Pareira Brava 99 Park Nut 46 Parkinsonia aculeata 154 Paspalum sp. 113 Passiflora laurifolia 14. 15. 17. 18 Passifiora suberosa 16. 191 Passifloraceae 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 191 Pelargonium sp. 81 Pencil Flower 8. 44 Phyllaruhus acidus 157 Pigeon Pea 169 Pignut 71. 90 Pilea^p- 193 Piper adimcum 74 Piperaceae 74 Piscidia piscipula 31 Pisonia aculeata tTI Pistia siratiotes 174 Planlaginaceae 22 Plantago virginica 22 Plumena rubra 134 Poaceae see Gramineae Poet's Jasmine 109 Poinciana 161 Porter Weed 23 Pofhomorphe umhellata 74 Priva lappulacea 33. 123 Prunus sp. 155* Prmius mvrtifolia 164 Psidium guajava 37. 49. 108. 111. 159. 176 Pudding Withe 128*, 141 Quick Stick 1 1 Raichie2y. 105 Ram-Goat Dashalong 19 Rattlewecd 62 Red Birch 173 Red Top 13 Redhead 13 River Koko 180 Rock Rosemary 54*. 103 Romieletia sp. 63 Rosa sp. 60. 110 Rosaceae60. 110. 155*. 164 Rose 60. 110 Rubiaceae28.63. 150, 166*. 177* Ruellia tuberosa 25 Rutaceae 2. 3. 73 Rytidophvllum fomentosum 153 Saven Tree 2, 3 Scorpion Weed 50 Senna Tree 12 Sesbania sp. 35* Shame Weed 9 Short Jimbelin 157 Sidasp. 91* Sida acuta 38 202 Sida aggregala 122 Snake Withe 128*. 141 Snake Wood 26. 61 Solanaceae 4S. 51, 66. SO. 84. 86'. 104. 107. 131. 147', 181 Sotanum americanitm 1 8 1 Solatium lorvum 104 Solanum mherosum 80 Spermacoce assurgens see Borreria laevis Spikenard 71. 90 Spondias sp. 165 Spondias momhin 192 Spondtas purpurea 1 37 Stachxtarpheta jamaKencis 23 Stachytarphfla mutahilis 160 Sterculiaceae 29, 105 Slylosanlhes hamala 8. 44 Styptic Bur 33. 123 Susumber 104 Synedrella nodiflora 47. 113 Tahehum rufescens 167 Tapioca 140 Tecoma starts 1 83 Tephrosia sp. 35*, 120' Teramnus uncinatus 1 7 1 Terminalia catappa 162 Tiliaceae82, 102. 112 Tomato 131 Tournefortia hirsutissima 45 Tragia volubilis 27 Tref 1 Trichilia hiria 1 52 Triumfetta sp. 112 Trmmfetta semitrHoba 82. 102 Trumpet Tree 26. 61 Turkey Berry 104 Turnera ulmifolia 19 C. V. ELLWOOD&J. M. V. HARVFY Turneraceae 19 Twining Cowitch 27 Vrechilcs lulea 55 Urena lobala 83, 96 llrticaceae 187*, 193 Velvet Bur 33, 123 Velvet Leaf 99 Verbenaceae 23, 33, 123, 160 Vervinc 23 Vitaceae 128. 132. 141. 142 Vi;« vinifera 132. 142 Wait-a-bit 67 Walllwria iridica 29. 105 Water Lettuce 179 Water Mahoe 4 Water Wood 4 West Indian Almond 162 White Wattle 97, 184 Wild Caesar Obeah 194 Wild Cassada 164 Wild Clary 50 Wild Indigo 36 Wild Jasmine 107 Wild Mahogany 1.52 Wild Poponax 98 Wissadula fadyeriii 75 Woman's Tongue Tree 72 Yellow Candle Wood 12 Yellow Poui 167 Yoke Wood KHI Zanlhnxylum fagara see Fagara plerola Zea mays 101 Zygophyllaceae 10 Bull Br Mils. Nal. HisI (his! Scr ) 18(2): 2().V22K Issued 2'^ Novemher 1990 Charles Darwin's St Helena Model Notebook Edited by GORDON RUSSELL CHANCELLOR Cily Museum and An Gallery, Prieslgale. Peterborough PEI ILF CONTENTS Introduction 203 The Notebook 205 Evidence for dating 206 The St Helena Model Notebook and Darwin's Crater of Elevation Theory 207 Editorial conventions 210 Acknowledgements 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 225 References 226 INTRODUCTION Charles Darwin (1809-1882) is beyond question one of the most important figures in the history of science, and as each year passes our appreciation of his importance seems only to increase. At the present time students of Darwin's life and work are being treated to a definitive edition of his Correspondence (Burkhardt & Smith, 1985-) and there recently appeared a similarly definitive edition of his theoretical notebooks (hereinafter referred to as Notebooks (Barrett, Gautrey, Herbert, Kohn & Smith, 1987)). It will take historians a long time fully to assimilate all this new material into their understanding of Darwin and the milieu in which he worked. Nevertheless, there is now a clear consensus that he became an evolutionist ("transmutationist' being the word he would have used) in the spring of 1837, within six months of his return from the voyage of the Beagle. It is also established that he constructed his theory of natural selection in the autumn of 1838, elaborating it and working out most of its radical implications during the winter and spring of 1839 (see Notebooks). Twenty years were to elapse, however, before Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859), and in the intervening period few people were allowed to know the conclusion to which his work had led him. With the full publication of Darwin's Correspondence and Notebooks we can now, for the first time, trace his path to natural selection — and beyond — in as much detail as the documentary record will ever allow. There is one small Darwin notebook, omitted for practical reasons from the Note- books, which Darwin seems to have kept about his person for 'on the spot' jottings throughout the important last few months of 1838. This notebook has become known as the 'St Helena Model' notebook, because these words are written on its cover, and because it contains notes concerning a model of the island of St Helena. This notebook 204 G. R. CHANCELLOR Fig 1 The St Helena Model' notebook of Charles Darwin, open at pp. 26-7. Courtesy of the Royal College of Surgeons. must, however, have had a greater meaning to Darwin, as it records many of his thoughts relating to variation, breeding and so on, albeit in telegraphic style. Most of these thoughts are much more fully expressed in the Notebooks, so that the St Helena Model notebook assumes an importance as the first medium available to a thinker who was eager not to forget the details of some observation or to lose the thread of a conversation before he could get home to his private study. Unfortunately twenty-one of the original fifty pages of the St Helena Model notebook have been excised — presumably by Darwin — and none of these excised pages has yet been found. This is all the more regretable because it was probably the theoretically most interesting pages which were excised. In spite of its fragmentary nature the St Helena Model notebook is worthy of publication. Much remains in the notebook of interest to those studying Darwin's work as a geologist at the time when he was entering the elite of London scientists (Rudwick" 1982), but perhaps its greatest charm lies in the glimpse it gives us of the daily thoughts and activities of a young genius at the most creative period of his life. In the weeks leading up to his marriage and election to Fellowship of the Royal Society, even Charles Darwin had to think about laundry and the problems of moving into a new address: 'Two easy chairs — Blinds in Red Rooms washed — Muslin all to be washed" (p.31x). CHARLES DARWIN S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 205 Fig 2 The 'St Helena Model' notebook of Charles Darwin. Note the writing on the front and the orientation of the brass clasp. Courtesy of the Royal College of Surgeons. THE NOTEBOOK The St Helena Model notebook was briefly described and partially transcribed by Nora Barlow (Darwin's grand-daughter) in her Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle (1945: 255). Lady Barlow noted that Darwin had written 'Nothing' and 'St Helena Model' in bold, thick ink on the red leather cover of the notebook (see Figs 1-2), which measures approxiinateiy 7cm x 11cm and is very similar to the smallest of the pocket notebooks (referred to as 'field notebooks' in Correspondence 1: 545) used by Darwin during the Beagle voyage, with which it is now kept on display at Down House. The surviving pages of the notebook were written almost entirely in pencil, except in a few cases where I have indicated that ink was used. So far as I can tell, none of the ink used is of the grey variety which is to be found in some of Darwin's other notebooks from this period (Notebooks: 14). Darwin seems almost always to have written 'down' the page, that is to say holding it with the hinge (which is 7cm long) oriented horizontally. We may imagine therefore, that the notebook was carried at all times by Darwin, ready to be jotted in whenever occasion arose; in this sense the notebook is equivalent to one of the pocket notebooks used during the Beagle voyage, and differs from the Notebooks which are essentially of post-voyage date. Evidence for dating of passages in the notebook is discussed further below; the bulk of the entries date from September to 206 G- K- CHANCl I.IOR December 1838, although there is one reference (written in ink on the inside baclc cover) dated 1839. The front end paper of the notebook has the number 1.5 written in the top right hand corner, in heavy pencil, in an unknown hand; this is the notebook's Down House catalogue number (see Correspondence 1: 545). The front end paper is also inscribed in the bottom left hand corner, in pencil, with a number 15 in which the 5 is written over a 6. This number 15 is uniform with a series to be found in each of the other Down House notebooks which reflect the approximate chronological order in which they were used. The 'Red Notebook" (Notebooks: 17-81) is numbered 16 in this series, but in fact entirely predates the St Helena Model notebook. I am informed by Sandra Herbert and Peter Gautrey that this second series of numbers is in Nora Barlow's handwriting. Since neither the 1.5 nor the 15 are in Darwin's hand they are omitted from the present edition. The pages of the notebook were not numbered by Darwin and because he wrote in it from both ends inwards, I have numbered the pages in two sequences, pp. 1-64 and pp. lx-32x. I refer to these two sequences as the front and back of the notebook respectively, although there is no real evidence that one was started before the other. As can be seen, however, from Figures 1-2, the notebook has a hinged brass clasp similar to ones on Darwin's other surviving notebooks, in almost all of which the hinge of the clasp is on the back cover (clearly the easiest arrangement for a right-handed person). I therefore refer to that end of the St Helena Model notebook which bears the hinge of its brass clasp as the back end. EVIDENCE FOR DATING ENTRIES IN THE NOTEBOOK There is only one reference in the notebook as it survives today which is actually dated, and this is the 1839 reference mentioned above. All other entries in the notebook must, therefore, be dated from internal evidence and by comparison with other Darwin manuscripts which can be dated. Broadly there are three more or less distinct sections of the notebook, each of which can be dated in this way. Firstly, the text from p. 1 to p. 15 forms a discrete essay on the geology of the island of St Helena, based on examination of a large model of the island. The evidence for dating this essay is given in more detail below, but suffice it here to say that it seems to have been written at one sitting, on or about 15 September 1838 (which was a Saturday). Just possibly this essay was written a few months before this date, following a conjectural earlier examination of the model. Darwin himself seems to have treated these first fifteen pages of the notebook as a separate entity, to judge from the pinhole through them. Secondly, the texts from p. 16 to p. 48 and from p. 5x to p. 29x are almost entirely concerned with the many geological and biological problems that Darwin was examining in the latter months of 1838. There are numerous entries on these pages which have close parallels in the Notebooks, the dating of entries in which can often he stated with certainty, not least because Darwin dated many of them himself. Whilst all such parallel references to the Notebooks which I have found are given in the notes which follow the text, 1 give here the most closely datable pages against the corresponding Notebooks pages (in parentheses) and dates: p. 22 (D40) between 19 and 22 August 18.38 p. 41 (M142) between 13 and 15 September 18.38 p. 46 (D105) 13 September 1838 CHARLE-s Darwin's st Helena model notebook 207 p. 47 (DlOO) 13 September 1838 p. 48 (Dl()8, 1 12) 14 to 16 September 1838 p. 29x (D163) 25 September 1838. Clearly, most of the references support a dating for these pages to September 1838. Thirdly, the texts from p. 59 to p. 64 and from p. 30x to p. 32x (i.e. the last entries in the notebook) are concerned with house hunting in London. In Darwin's pocket 'Journal' which (as Sandra Herbert first pointed out in 1977: 208) seems to have been first used in August 1838, there is the following entry for 1838 (see Correspondence 2: 432): 'To the end of year House hunting'. Darwin took possession of the keys to 12 Upper Gower Street on 29 December 1838, so that one can say with reasonable confidence that these entries date from late November to December 1838. THE ST HELENA MODEL AND DARWIN'S CRATER OF ELEVATION THEORY As noted above, the first fifteen pages of the notebook form an essay on the geology of St Helena, and the words 'St Helena Model' are written on the notebook's cover (see Fig 3 Map of The Island & Forts of St Helena (c.l815), scale of 2 miles = 1.75 inches, :5cin 19cm. Courtesy of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. (CUL Maps 546.81.1). 208 G. R. CHANCELLOR Fig. 3). In order to date this essay and to establish its significance, it is necessary to review Darwins manuscript record concerning St Helena. When H.M.S. Beagle visited St Helena in July 1836. Darwin took the opportunity to make a detailed examination of its geology, recording his observations in Down House notebooks 1.3 and 1.6. Aboard ship Darwin wrote up his personal diary, which is also today preserved at Down House, and sorted out his geological specimens, which are listed as numbers 37tK)-28 in the third of four catalogue notebooks which are now on deposit at Cambridge University Library. He also wrote up his detailed geological notes on paper watermarked Wilmot 1834; these notes are now at Cambridge University Library, DAR 38ii, ff. 920-35. At some point before the Beagle reached England, Darwin made some notes on St Helena in his Red Notebook, the most extensive being those on pp. 38-40. which he subsequently excised and are now in DAR 42. f. 84 (see Notebooks: 31). While Darwin's servant and amanuensis Syms Covington was making a fair copy of his master's personal diary, probably in the early months of 1837. for eventual publication as Journal of Researches (hereinafter referred to as JR). Darwin prepared an additional section on the geology and natural history of St Helena. This section appears on pp. 581- 3 of JR. but as Nora Barlow pointed out in her edition of the personal diary (Barlow, 1933: 439n58) the manuscript of this section appears to be lost, and cannot therefore be precisely dated. In July 1837 Darwin opened the first two of his post-voyage Notebooks. Notebook A was devoted to geology, notebook B to species. Notebook A contains a reference to St Helena on p. 41; 'The fact of Galapagos Isld. steep side to windward in allusion to St. Helena discussion.' (Notebooks: 96). This note is on an excised fragment now in DAR 42, f. 25, which can be dated approximately to November-December 1837 (Notebooks- 83). The next datable manuscript dealing with the geology of St Helena is a single sheet of Eyehorn 1837-watermarked paper, bound near the back of DAR 44. The recto of this document is dated 15 September 1838, and headed 'St Helena Model'; it is written in pencil with a few ink annotations and concerns the topography of the north-west and north-east coasts of St Helena. It is written in a similar style to, and clearly overlaps in subject matter with the first fifteen pages of the St Helena Model notebook. Both documents seem to have been written during or immediately after examination of the •gigantic model' of St Helena, which we know Darwin saw at the East India Company's Military College at Addiscombe, which is now part of Croydon in Surrey (see Darwin 1844, hereinafter referred to as VI: 75 footnote; 1846, hereinafter referred to as GSA: 25). This dating for Darwin's work on the model is substantiated bv a letter he wrote to an unknown recipient dated 12 September {1838}, in which he asks permission to examine the model, having apparently seen it "some months since' (Correspondence 2: 103). The model itself, which I have not been able to locate and which probably no longer exists, was constructed by Robert Scale, author of The Geognosy of the Island of St Helena (Scale, 1834). The verso of the DAR 44 manuscript, reproduced here as Figure 4, is an inked-ovcr pencil diagram showing cliff formation on the north-west coast of St Helena. It is clearly developed from the diagram on p. 38 of the Red Notebook, and via various intermediate states preserved in DAR .39ii was published in the section on cliff formation in GSA: 25-6; (see also Notebooks: 31n38-4). The remaining manuscripts which deal with the geology of St Helena are a series of pencilled notes written, like the DAR 44 sheet discussed above, on Eyehorn 1837 paper and preserved as DAR 42, ff. 94-7. These too are mainly concerned with the subject of coastal erosion and they may well have been written at the same time as the DAR 44 CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 209 <> J. I V .1 r sft 1 t ■I ■' hi ,1,1, - 1" oo « "5 * c o c x: ra Darwin's deletion << >> Darwin's insertion bold type written in ink dleg illegible /- -/ doubtful reading Page numbers arc given in square brackets. Excised pages are signified by the notation 'e'. CHARLES DARWIN S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 211 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks are due especially to the Royal College of Surgeons, for allowing me to publish the 'St Helena Model' notebook, and for agreeing most generously to depositing the notebook temporarily at Cambridge University Library so that I could work on it there. It is a pleasure also to acknowledge the help I received at Cambridge from Mr Peter Gautrey, whose ability to read Darwin's handwriting has aided my task a great deal, but who is in no way responsible for the accuracy of the present edition. I am grateful also to Dr Sandra Herbert of the University of Maryland, who has greatly improved my work at several stages and encouraged me to complete the project, as has my partner AUi.son Butt. Finally I thank the Syndics of Cambridge University Library for permission to quote from manuscripts in their care, and for providing the illustrations for this paper. [FRONT END PAPER' [1] [3| An Elevation inter= = mediate between Longwood' & Alarm house' will give mean inclination of stream before elevation at Flagstaff /-Bluimans-/'" probably modern lava. Horse pasture"" island slopes impossible to guess what it is High Hiir. I should think external < more elevated then rest of ring>> /-Vide-/ basalt & V[/We] specimens Hollow <> near Man & Horse** I should <> think end of <> external ring: to The S. [illeg] Is like inside of Crater. /-Evidently-/ great /-remnant-/ near Flat Rocks." [4] ?< basaltic X X X X & I can scarcely doubt great [6] Stone top"" < /-by-/ Green Hill"' /-to-/ Nest [Lodge written over Loge']", the longer axis will be parallel to S. Coast as /-rise-/ of Green Hill is nearly obliterated We need not be surprised at SW part of circle being entirely obliterated 1 1(1) connection true or false? The tops of basaltic masses stick up above the modern = strewn all round a little higher 1111 [12] The /-state-/ of outer /-ring at-/ (/-true-/ SW) point, is quite doubtful.-, cause of dip of S Barn"-^ doubtful. - [13] Excepting from disturbance at the /-?-/ Barn-'' axis of Crater parallel to island. - New crater placed rather at one end of ring of Rocks Lot. Lots Wife" & & Flagstaff^* in line [14] TTie lava of Flagstaff-^ did not proceed from so low a place as Casons Gate^* When I talk of dip from High /-Peak"'' have-/ 1 said SWforNW!!!?? The irregular position of the external /-knobs-/, /-would certainly-/ appear more probably due to elevation, than <> crater of subsidence Appears to have less regularity, than true crater tho' having crateriform dip Prosperous Bay^^" Flagstaff ought" to have dipped due E. Barn'- NE ought to have dipped South <>" ought to have dipped SbyE From black angular CHARLES DARWIN S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 213 [15] projecting <> at base of Man & Horse''' no doubt external basaltic, but top too smooth I must suspect structure like Flagstaff'' [16] Dr Lind/-stay-/-^* Curator Ask Gould" about East Indian & Australian Birds, with respect to /-islets-/^** Eyton^"— Waterhouse*^ think/-s grey-/ with black bars cat differ species from small tortoise = shell caf" — skeletons Do get shepherds tail 17e-2()e] [21] Sulivan""" get head of ox called "Nata"^' History of cross breeds Gould drawing of ostrich''^ D'Orbigny'" is giving figure shells from Cordillera^" Ear Doctor'*^ [22] Tell Lyell* of Desnoyers Paper'^" Tell Mr Owen""' of Caout chouk""' to stop bottle admirable tables of distribution of reptiles of /-bound-/ in Suites de Buffon", of [23e-24el [25] /-Wrappers-/ ?? about sending to Subscribers^' Stewart' about payment of the 100 guineas for Gould - Curtis'" my bill Dr Smith'' sharks teeth Navedad Chile /-will examine them hereafter-/ [26] Major Mitchell'" Height of Escarpment of Blue Mountains «do hybrid does /-Austral-/ dogs, breed.-' >> Depth of rivers near mouths'* Any Fossils /-in the-/ Sandstone" /-Pecten Terebratula-/ Name of Mr Brown*^ leaves*' Do Australian dogs hunt in packs*^ /-Watuaya-/ Woodcut of Bomb"-' 27 1 Pay Lonsdale"* Geolog Transactions Pseudo-strata, -craters. There are some ? May I quote your statement 214 G. R. CHANCELLOR about steep shore deep beneath water.''^ find out about cliffs on banks of rivers. /-during-/ a stormy night in water transported 90 yards, & the person on the /-spot was confused-/ At Head of /-CJrose-/ are there cliffs & confine attention to this one valley yes Do the rivers continue deep a little way above tidal action <> /-Look out for shells with bones not always cliffs-/ [two illeg words] Henrietta /-St-/ Bath*^ would probably answer letter & give information about tailless breed of cats*''' (origin?) near Walmesbury breed?? |37e^()el 1411 all preserving their NEdip Miss Marlineau p. 213^^ Charity everywhere <<1 doubted it at first>> Byron & the Fuegian women Have any Wiltshire sheep, with teeth pushing each other out Plants from Henslow^' Sulivan^' about English Weeds Fennel, Sow Thistle /-Reach—/ [42] other associated animals charity — cows not wild cattle & [illeg] Wouett on Cattle'* Waterhouse, has it'' Ask [Fox™ ink over pencil] to experimentise''* on Frogs spawn & to procure eggs of Land Snail, for me — [29e-34el [35] Council of Geolog Soc for map of Scotland Owen's Edition of <> Animal Economy**" Dunford field /-Church-/ St [43e-44e] [45] n.b. [36] /-Last-/ number of Lancet, account of Owen & Magnetism'" " Vol. VII Ed. T. p.l57'-'Sir J Hall states that "a <> block of <> 4 or 5 ft in diam, lying within high water mark, & well known as <> serving to denote the boundary of two estates was Pintail & Common Duck to get some half /-breed-/**' Bring Picture for /-M-/ Cross between Black Grouse Ptarmigan**" Pheasant & Grouse in*" wild — when species decreasing CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK [46] Capercailzie^'* 215 Place Park- Black Grouse & subalpina*^ Anthus S. American species.- furthest south — Anthus going further < than S. American species"*' [47] Mr Yarrell" 3"6cl for number of Physiology**** Mr Yarrell [1765 writien over •I780-], has book history of Pidgeon.*''' Treatise on Domestic Pidgeons — very curious, in comparison for time, — Mr Yarrell has /-recent-/ comparison [48] Has rock Pidgeon specks on shoulder. Pouters have specks'"' Have any new varieties of Pidgeons been established?'" There must be laws of variation chance would never produce feathers or make breed—"- ?cat without legs?"^ [49e-58e] [59] /-modesty [<>] & shame-/ Mr Fuller 8 Albany [62| -/-ll-/ Regent - 20()£'"' Albany St. 7()£. per annum no 161 — 100£ per annum Another further up this street 80£ no 27 [60] Clarges St. Montague Place House. Parker Keppel St Agent Furnished Kemp & Son 37 Judd St. House in Woburn Place — no 20 [61] Pearsall & Jorden 1. Bernard St Russell Square House in do 12 Upper Gower"- St. Furnished or unfurnished. < Furniture at Valuation? Pearsall & Jordan: 100 year with stables: 4 years- [Will hear on Tuesday from France wnlleri up left margin] Mr Stokes'*" 4 North Place Gray Inn Lane Gordon Square 40 Built l-iwo-l years 216 G. R. CHANCELLOR [63] <<20>> Woburn Place bare, (with fixtures some) want some painting <> rather nice house - offices rather bad. look out /-believing-/ moderately good 140 Kemp'& Son [37 '3' written over '2'\ Judd St with stables [6xj Lonsdale: S. American Fossils?"" 17. Woburn Place to Purchase Furniture rent 1 10 Lease 7 or 14 [64] Tavistock Square"*^ 2 houses from- near Mr /-Crompton's-/ I45£: New House belonging to Cubitt^" Regent Square. [INSIDE BACK COVER] 2/6 Lyell" Geograph Journal 1839 p. 288 Subsidence at Tyre'"" [Back end paper excised] [lxe-4xe] [5x] by seeds or not? & what will it go back to? Give Miller'"' a hint, about specimens [378 yellow encircled]^°^ VonHofftranslated??"'^ Take the passage & see about my mistake Correction for Lyell in little Book'""^ Lyell Vol.11 Poggendorf Annalen about Albite ask /-Lvell-/ to look'*" [illeg]> Earle'"^ Tristan D-Acunha""* Mr Whewell"^ depths at which sea breaks' [7x] Cone ofTree from Chile'" Mr Brown/-e-/ Bomb"-' [<> + Mark of Tree boxed] - Is Australian wood coniferous"' [<> ink mer pencil] <> + Norfolk Isld Macquarie Is?? where can I get account? Australia & S. America at all allied Flora. Wild dogs on West Coast See l/-st-/ Vol of Geograph Journal"^ Bog Iron ore infusoria"'' Fern «of Australia» being found in India. Ask directions about good lens in Paris.- CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK [8x] Lyell flint in Potteries'"' [20x] Owen tooth in Sir Woodbine's" '' possession"'* 217 Dr Smith'-'* /-Quartz-/ Rock, no formation of ?? with respect to origin of sandstone'-'' [9xe-10xe] [llx] Vol III p. 30 Lyell"" wrong about P. vulpina Waterhouse Granite large Formation???? ?Type? size for Zoological Ask Lonsdale"" about «stalagtite layer on>> Chalk & look at [three illeg words] Ask Bailliere' Roget, Bridgewater'-' Treatise Translation of Muller'" (with the exception of some quartz Hills on the West Coast near the mouth of Orange River) Dr Smith.-'^' [12x] Ice transport of storm in Frith of Forth p. 157 VII Vol «& 8th» Edinburgh Transact'" Have they <> Leucopterus from Falkland Isd at Brit Museum for comparison with those from T del Fuego brought by King'-'' [13xe-18xe] [19x] Ask Dr Smith thickness of sandstone atC. of Good Hope'-' How high is the capping of sandstone on Lions Head 2100ft above sea [21xe- [23x] 22xe] Tooth of Mastodon "- for Merchant Sonnerat'"" has given account of Seychelles Voyage aux Indes Orientales 1774 1781 Gould"^ has seen Parrot [24x] /-Cheiroptamus-/'-*^ Exact Locality Cast Corvus do Mar for Henslow'-^ [Whether litters of true hybrids are heterogenous or homogenous written upside down]''^^ Sir P Egerton"" says that Kaup'" considers M. augusti = dens"" as only found in India- European species are M. longirostris 218 [25x] G. R. CHANCELLOR [26x] Jaw of Elephant in Geolog Soc Edin Transacts Vol. VI p les'-^" considers Somma is fragment of large volcano Sir J Hall do p. IVS'-'" Has seen clay stiff enough for potters use with /-great-/ crystals of ice /-found-/ in them, & fragments of rock, with angles sharp, yet with [character completely altered & iwo illeg words superinduced written up right margin] Edentate Head, one plate''" [28x] [29x1 Mastodont one plate 4 Plates 2 Plates for little bones I Tessalated covering 6 Scelidotherium 1 — Lower jaw 1 Megatherium 1 && [\iboxed]2'\^ [27x] TTieory of Volcanos <> Byelandt Palstercamp''*- Rat from Australia??'''-' Owen- fossil -'■" Shall I give Institute /-d'-/France Mammalia''*^ [30x] Lyell Volcanic Dust''*" /-Macaio-/ Is there any relation between boss of Indian cattle & structure Bison &c'^' Analyse this in all cases whether variation /-assumes-/ character allied to specific ones same genus — Write to Sulivan'** to enquire about wild <> dogs on the Pampas Do male animals lose passion from breeding in & in.-'^' How many generations was this effected in case of Bantam & Polish Cochin"" in Pidgeons how many generations old on an average"' [Vertebra of Indian Cattle ink over pencil]'" Evton. dissect.-"'' Skeletons of Pidgeons 1/2 one. 3. oclock 1/4.1. 1/2 past one Pay Lyell"''for Pritchard'^'^Chemical Co/-ncre-/ tions Volcanic Dust'''" Remnants of Carpets"' Mat for Hall Windows cleaned Staircase cover washed Walls cleaned white curtains washed CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 219 [31x] Two easy chairs T. Carlyle '''''- Public Library Blinds in red Rooms washed P''"' '" Po"e''y written upside down 1160 [32x] Common table & Muslin all to be 2nd Washing stand washed Lyell"''-Maclarens"'- has written [Lyell"'* on Salisbury Craigs NOTES Biographical notes are adaptations of those given in the Correspondence. 1. There arc five lines of illegible very feint words written on the inside front end paper. 2. Longwood (elevation 1760') was Napoleon's residence on St Helena; it is located in the east- central part of the island (see Cross, 1980). 3. Alarm House (elevation I960'?) is approximately 1 mile west of Longwood. 4. Flagstaff Hill (elevation 2275') is on the north-east coast, overlooking Flagstaff Bay. 5. Not identified. 6. Horse Pasture is a large sloping area about three miles south-west of Jamestown. 7. High Hill (elevation 2314') is about two miles south of Horse Pasture. 8. Man and Horse is a high cliff area at the south-west corner of St Helena. 9. The Flat Rocks arc two of the islets off the southern tip of St Helena. 10. The Asses Ears (elevation about 1660') are two peaks at the the southern tip of the island. 11. South Barn is presumably Sandy Bay Barn (elevation 1413') which is in the centre of the south coast, on the eastern side of Sandy Bay. 12. Long Range (elevation 1936') and Long Range Point are on the south-eastern edge of Sandy Bay. 13. Cuckholds Point (elevation 2672') is in the centre of the island, on the northern rim of Sandy Bay. 14. Halley's Mount (elevation 22(X)') is halfway between Cuckhold's Point and Alarm House. It was from this point that Edmund Halley observed the transits of Mercury and Venus in 1676. LS. See note 8. 16. Great Stone Top (elevation 1620) is near the south-east corner of the island. 17. See note 7. 18. The Barn (elevation 2019') is at the north-west tip of the island. 19. See note 4. 20. See note 11. 21 . Green Hill (elevation 1650') is about I mile south of Cuckhold's Point. 220 G. R. CHANCKLLOR 22. West Lodge (elevation 2200') is about 1 mile east-south-east of High Hill. Darwin both here and in VI refers to it as Nest Lodge. 23. See note 1 1 . 24. See note 18. 25. Lot (elevation 1489') and Lot's Wife (elevation 1516') are peaks in the interior of Sandy Bay. 26. See note 4. 27. See note 4. 28. Casons Gate has not been located. 29. High Peak (elevation 2616') is about 2 miles east of High Hill. Darwin's question to himself here almost certainly relates to his Beagle notes (DAR 38ii, f. 929). 30. Prosperous Bay is on the north-east coast of St Helena. 31. See note 4. 32. See note 18. 33. See note 1 1 . 34. See note 8. 35. See note 4. 36. Not identified. 37. Gould, John (1804-81). Self-taught ornithologist and artist. Taxidermist to the Zoological Society of London, 1826-81 . Described the birds collected on the Beagle expedition (Gould, 1838-41). FRS 1834. 38. Related matter appears in B249. 39. Eyton, Thomas Campbell (1809-80). Shropshire naturalist and collector of bird skins and skeletons. Friend and Cambridge contemporary of Darwin. 40. Waterhouse, George Robert (1810-88). Naturalist. A founder of the Entomological Society, 1833. Curator, Zoological Society of London, 1836-43. On staff of the British Museum 1843-80. Described some of Darwin's entomological specimens from the Beagle voyage (see Smith. 1987) as well as the Beagle mammals (Waterhouse, 1838-9). 41 . Waterhouse thinks two main divisions of cats. Tortoise shell & grey-banded, '.'species?' B250. 42. Sulivan, Bartholomew James (1810-90). Naval officer and hydrographer. Lieutenant in the Beagle. 1831-6. Surveyed the Falkland Islands, 1836-46 (Moore & Scannell, 1986). Admiral 1877. 43. Nata cattle are described in Varialion 1 : 89-91 . They may also be the subject of a manuscript Darwin sent to George Robert Gray in December 1838 (see Correspondence 2: 1.16). 44. Almost certainly a reference to Gould's illustration of Darwin's Rhea, Plerocnemia pennala d'Orbigny, which was published in Gould (1841). 45. D'Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (1802-57) French palaeontologist who travelled widely in South America, 1826-34. 46. Probably a reference to the figures of South American fossils which appeared in the Atlas de la partic historique' of d'Orbigny (1846). 47. Colp (1977) does not seem to have found any evidence that Darwin had any ear complaint. 48. Lyell. Charles (1797-1875). Uniformitarian geologist. Professor of Geology. King's College, London, 1831-3. President of the (ieological Society, 18.14-6 and 1849-50. Scientific mentor and friend of Darwin. FRS 1826. Lvcll was in Scotland from late August until mid-November 1838 (Wilson, 1972). CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MOI3EL NOTEBOOK 221 49. Possibly Desnoyers (1831-2), although Lyell already knew of this paper (Notebooks: 405n35- I). 50. Owen, Richard (1804-92). Comparative anatomist. Assistant conservator at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons. 1827; Hunterian Professor. 1836-56. Superintendent of the Natural History Department of the British Museum. 1856-84. Described the Beagle fossil mammal specimens (Owen, 1838-40). FRS 1834. 51. Caoutchouc, or India-rubber, could be used to seal a bottle. 52. An almost identical reference occurs on D40 and the 'Suites" arc also referred to on D 1 79 and on the inside back cover of C (Notebooks: 327niB(-4). The D40 note was made between the 19th and 22nd of August 1838. 53. Presumably a reference to subscribers to the Zoology (Freeman. 1977; Correspondence 2). 54. Mr Stewart of Stewart and Murray, printers of the Zoology. 55. See note 37. 56. C. M. Curtis, artist for the Zoology mammalia volume (Waterhouse, 1838-9), no. 2 of which appeared in September 1838. 57. Smith, Andrew (1797-1872). Army surgeon stationed in South Africa, 1821-37. Principal Medical Officer at Fort Pitt, Chatham, 1837; Deputy Inspector-General, 1845. Director- General. Army Medical Department, 1853-8. FRS 1857. Darwin collected sharks' teeth at Navedad in 1834 (sec GSA). but I can trace no connection between Andrew Smith and South America or sharks' teeth. 58. Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792-1855). Surveyor-General, New South Wales, 1825-55. 59. See CI59,189 and D180 on the subject of breeding between native and european dogs. 60. See VI: 135 for Mitchell's information on Australian river valleys, published in Mitchell (1838). Darwin records a communication with Mitchell, probably datable to April 1838, on the same subject (see Notebooks: 113n92-l). 61. Probably a reference to fossils from Tasmania, judging from the proximity to the following reference (note 62). See Banks (1971) and DAR 40, ff. 45-9. 62. Brown, Robert (1773-1858). Botanist. Librarian to Joseph Banks, 181(K58. Keeper of the Botanical collections, British Museum, 1827-58. FRS 1811. Mabberley (1985). 63. The text on pp. 26-7 is drawn over heavily with doodles and sketches of plants. These may be fossil plants from Tasmania given to Robert Brown for description. See fig. 1. and VI: 140. 64. 'Major Mitchell is not aware that Australian dogs ever hunt in company-' C213. Entry made in the early summer of 1838. 65. May refer to the woodcuts of volcanic bombs in VI: 36. 38. 66. Lonsdale, William (1794-1871). Geologist. Served the Geological Society from 1829 to 1842, first as curator and librarian, and after 1838 as assistant secretary and librarian. Lonsdale was a frequent source of information for Darwin. 67. This question may be directed at Major Mitchell. See note 60. 68. Henrietta Street is near the centre of Bath. 69. 'There is a breed of tailless cats, near Bath. Lonsdale' C175. William Lonsdale (see note 66) provided Darwin with other examples of varieties of domesticated animals (Notebooks: 293--4). 70. Henslow, John Stevens (1796-1861). Clergyman, botanist, and mineralogist, Cambridge University. 1822-7; Professor of Botany, 1825-61. Darwin's teacher and friend. The background to Henslows involvement with plants collected by Darwin is given in Porter (1985). 222 G. R. CHANCELLOR 71. See note 42. 72. The last two lines arc written horizontally as was the previous page of text, judging from words on the stub of 34e. The other lines on p. 35 were written vertically in the remaining blank space. 73. See note 50. TTie reference has not been traced, although there was correspondence on "animal magnetism' in The Lancet at this time (e.g. issue of September 22, p. 34). 74. Hall (1815) is also referred to in A36. See also note 123. 75. 'Miss Martineau (How to Observe p. 213) says charity is found everywhere (is it not present with all associated animals?) I doubted it in Fuegians, till I remembered Bynoes story of the women.-' M142. This entry was made between 13 and 15 September 1838. Note that the name in the St Helena Model notebook is clearly Byron. The reference is to Martineau (1838). See also Correspondence 1: 520. 76. Youatt (1834). 77. See note 40. 'Wowett on Cattle- (Waterhouse has it)' Cim. 78. Fox. William Darwin (1805-80). DaiAvin's second cousin. A close friend at Cambridge who shared Darwin's enthusiasm for entomology. 79. 'Experimentise on land shells in salt water & lizards do.-' B248. 80. Hunter (1837), listed on C270. See note 50. 81. Hybrid pintail and common ducks are referred to on D25, 26, 33,89, IBC. See also Natural Selection: 433nl, and Variation 2: 45. 82. Crossing between black grouse and ptarmigan is referred to on D72, dated 8 September 1838 and on D105-6, datable to 13 September 1838, The subject is dealt with in some detail in Natural Selection. 434-6, and Darwin's interest in it seems likely to have originated during his fieldwork at Glen Roy in late June 1838, See Notebooks: .345n43-l, 83. Grouse-pheasant hybrids are mentioned on B189,D33, 105-6 and E106. See note 82, 84. The capercailzie is mentioned on D73 and 105, 85. See note 82. 86. Probably a reference to Anlhus corrender Viellot, mentioned in Gould (1839: 85) as having ■probably a further range southward than any other land-bird in the southern hemisphere.' 87. Yarrell, William (1784-1856). Zoologist. Engaged in business as newspaper agent and bookseller in London. Wrote standard works on British birds and fishes. 88. Possibly Hunter (1786) or (1792). listed on C267. 89. Moore (1765). An almost identical entry occurs on DIOO. See Notebooks: .362nUX)-l. This cross-reference almost certainly dates to 13 September 1838. 90. This is discussed on DlOO-1 . See Notebooks: 362nlOO-2, and note 89. 91. 'as in pidgeons no new races.-' D104. 92. I agree with the reading of this page given in Notebooks: 362nlOO-2, although the phrase may be 'produce feathers and make bones'. Very similar wording occurs on D112. 93. 'Yarrell told me of a cat & a dog, born without front legs-' D108. 'if armless cat can propogatc' Dl 12. These pages are datable to between 14 and 16 September 1838. 94. Darwin started househunting on or about 25 November 1838 (See Correspondence 2: 120). 95. Freeman (1982) gives an excellent account of the events leading up to the establishment of the newlywed Darwin household at 12 Upper Gower Street ('Macaw Cottage') in January 1839. 96. This may be Charles Stokes (1783-1853). See Wilson (1972, chapter 10). CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 223 97. A prospective house in Tavistock Square is mentioned in a letter from Darwin to Emma Wedgwood dated 27 November 1838 (Correspondence 2: 129). 98. Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855) is mentioned as the developer of Tavistock Square in Freeman (1982). 99. '2/6' is written in the top left hand corner. It is presumably the price of the notebook (two shillings and six pence). 1(X). This reference of 1839 is the latest date in the notebook. The reference is to De Berthou (1839). The only other reference to the 1839 volume of the Journal of the Roval Geographical Society of London in Darwin's handwriting of which I am aware is the annotation on the letter from J. G. Malcolmson of 7 October 1839 {Correspondence 2: 225). lUl. Miller. William Hallowes (1801-80). Mineralogist and crystallographcr. Professor of Mineralogy, Cambridge University, 1832-80. FRS 1838. 102. Geological specimen 3378. from Tahiti. There is a note in Darwin's specimen catalogue (on deposit at CUL) to 'V. applendix] p. 19', which is a reference to DAR 39.l,f.88. The specimen is mentioned in a note from J. S. Hcnslow dated 5 November 1837-March 1838 (Correspondence 2: 55n2). in Darwin's letter to Henslow of 26 March 1838 (Correspondence 2: 79n4), and in Darwin's letter to W. H. Miller of 16 October-27 November 1842 (Correspondence 2: 339n2). 103. Presumably Hoff (1822-24) 104. See note 66. One explanation of this entry is that Darwin was entertaining the possibility of William Lonsdale describing at least some of his invertebrate fossils from South America. In the event Lonsdale described Darwin's fossils from Tasmania (Lonsdale 1844) while George Brettingham Sowerby (1788-1854) and Fdward Forbes (1815-54) described Darwin's Cenozoic and Mesozoic fossils respectively (Sowerby 1846, Forbes 1846). Darwin enquired concerning Sowerby's credentials for the task in a letter to J. S Henslow of October 1836 (Correspondence 1: 512n4). Sowerby also described Darwin's shells from the Cape Verdes and from St Helena and Tasmania (Sowerby 1844). 105. Possibly a reference to Lyell (1840). Darwin was reading this work in manuscript in September 1838 (sec Correspondence 2: 107n8). 106. Lyell (1837,2: 175) 'According to Von Buch, the American volcanic rocks contain generally less albite instead of common felspar as a principal ingredient (Poggendorf's Annalen, 1836, p. 190).' 107. Earle, Augustus (1793-1838). Artist and traveller. Artist in the Beagle, 1831-2. Hackforth- Jones(1980). 108. Augustus Earle spent nine months on Tnstan da Cunha in 1824 (see note 107). Darwin may have been interested in the action of waves on the island (see note 1 10). 109. Whewell. William (1794-1866). Mathematician and historian and philosopher of science. Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, 182.3-38; Master 1841-66. Professor of Mineralogy, Cambridge University, 1828-32. FRS 1820. 110. In a letter to Robert Mallet (1810-81) of 26 August 1846 Darwin says he consulted William Whewell (see note 109) on the subject of waves while preparing JR. Sec Correspondence 3: 335. In A59 the subject of breaking waves is mentioned with respect to Tristan da Cunha (see note 108). 1 1 1. See note 62. 1 12. See note 65. 1 13. There is a general connection between these entries and those on B187 and C238-9. 1 14. The wild dogs of King George's Sound are discussed by Nind (1832: 29). 115. See Ehrenberg (1837), mentioned on A93 (Notebooks: 1 I4n93-1). 224 G. R. CHANCELLOR 116. See notes 140 and IW). 1 17. Parish, Woodbine (1796-1882). Diplomat Charge d'affaires in Buenos Aires. 1825-32. FRS 1824. 118. Possibly a reference to the "single detached tooth' of a Mef;alherium. mentioned as having been in Parish's collection by Owen (1840; 102). 119. "Thus the Phalangista vulpina inhabits both Sumatra and New Holland' l.yell (1S37. 3: 30). Lyell took his reference from Tcmminck (1827: 16. 19). Watcrhouse told Darwin that he did not believe Temminck's statement to be true, in a letter sent to 12 Upper Gower Street (and therefore dating from the last few days of 1838 at the earliest; see Correspondence 2: 154). There is a very similar entry in B249e (Notebooks: 232-3). 120. Bailliere, Hippolyte (d.l867). Bookseller and publisher in London who specialised in French medical and scientific texts. 121. Roget(1834). 122. Muller (1838-42). 123. Hall (1815: 157). This entry cross-refers to p. 36 (see note 74). It is not clear why Darwin has added a reference to the eighth volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 124. See King (1828: 423-6). 125. See note 57. The sandstone, which is 2000 feet thick, is described in VI: 150-152. 126. See note 70. A mistake for Cocos do mer, mentioned on E164 in relation to discussions with Henslow on 27 May 1839. 127. 'Are the hybrids of those species, which cross & are fertile heterogenous' D,bc- See Notebooks: 345n43-l . 128. See note 56. 129. These two entries relate to information given by Smith on the geology of South Africa (see notes 125 and 131). 130. See note 66. 131. This is presumably Smith's reply to Darwin's enquiry at the top of the page. 132. Darwin found Mastodon teeth at Gorodona (GSA: 87-8; Owen. 1840: 108). Sec notes 137-8. 133. Sonnerat (1782). 1.34. See note 37. 135. Cheroptamus Cuvier is an Eocene mammal related to pigs (Buckland. 1836 1: 80). 136. Egerton, Philip dc Malpas Grey (1806-81). Of Oulton Park. Cheshire. Tory MP for South Cheshire, 183.5-68. FRS 1831. Egerton was a vertebrate palaeontologist, specializing in fossil fish and footprints. 137. Kaup (18.32-5). 138. Mastodon augustidens Cuvier is referred to on C46 and E32. the latter reference dated 26 October 18.38. See note 1.32. 139. Hall (1812). 140. Hall (1812). An almost verbatim reference to the same observation occurs on Al 1 1 . datable to before 11 August 1838. This may cross-refer to the subject touched on in notes 116 and 160. 141. This is a list of the plates thought necessary to illustrate the fossil mammalia of the Beagle (Owen, 1838-40). The following are the most probable identifications of the plates listed: CHARLES DARWIN'S ST HELENA MODEL NOTEBOOK 225 'Edentate Head' Glossotherium in Owen (1839: pL 16) 'Mastodont' not illustrated 'Tessalated covering' Hoplophorus Owen (1840: pi. 32, figs. 4-5) •Scelidotherium' Scelidolherium Owen (1839^0: pis. 20-8) 'Lower jaw' Megalonyx in Owen (1840: pi. 29) 'Megatherium' Megatherium Owen (1840: pi. 30) 142. Not identified. 143. Probably refers to a supposed fossil rat listed by Clift (1831), mentioned on C131 (see Notebooks: 278nl31-l). See note 144. 144. See note 50. Possibly Darwin was seeking Owen's opinion as to whether the rat (see note 143) was correctly identified. 145. Darwin seems to be asking if he should donate a copy of Waterhouse (1838-9) to the Institute de France. 146. See notes 48 and 156. Lyell gave Darwin a letter written to him in March 1838 which reported volcanic dust falling on a ship at sea {Correspondence 2: 77-8). 147. A very similar passage occurs on D65, dated 7 September 1838. See also note 152. 148. Sec note 42. There are several entries concerning wild dogs of the world in the Notebooks (e.g. D7-8). 149. 'Breeding in & in Infertility & loss of passion '.'? in Male?" occurs in draft Questions for Mr Wynne', datable to February-July 1838 (Correspondence 2: 71). 150. Closely related discussion occurs on D163, dated 25 September 1838. 151. '(. . & not effect of breeding in & in like our pidgeons)' D88. 152. See note 147. 153. See notes 39 and 151. 154. See note 48. 155. Prichard(1836). 156. Sec note 146. 157. See note 94. 158. See note 48. 159. Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881). Essayist and historian. Darwin met Carlyle for the first time in November 1838 (Correspondence 2:128). 160. Sec notes 1 16 and 140. 161. See note 48. Lyell mentioned Salisbury Craigs in his letter to Darwin dated 6 and 8 September 1838 (Correspondence 2:99). 162. Maclarcn, Charles (1782- 1866). 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