| Date Note | Date of donation, makes reference to contemporary publications, author emigrated to Australia in 1827 |
| Description | Manuscript list of a 'Catalogue of minerals and organic remains found in the neighbourhood of Midhurst, Sussex' by the Reverend Charles P N Wilton, [?1826], 11pp. There are at least two different hands in the document and some of the lower text has been lost when the paper was trimmed during binding process.
Bound into volume with other tracts on the stratigraphy of England:
1) CATCOTT, George Symes, 'A descriptive account of a descent made into Penpark-Hole, in the parish of Westbury-upon-Trim, in the county of Gloucester, in the year 1775, now first published: to which is added, a copper-plate engraving of that remarkable cavern: also, the narratives of Captains Sturmey and Collins, containing their descriptions of the same, in the years 1669 and 1682'. Bristol: Printed by J Rudhall, 1792.
2a) BRODERIP, W J, "Observations on the jaw of a fossil mammiferous animal found in the Stonefield slate". [From the Zoological Journal, (1828)].
2b) FITTON, W H, "On the strata from whence the fossil described in the preceding notice was obtained". [From the Zoological Journal, (1828)].
3) [FORSTER, Westgarth] Coloured, lithographed sections of strata of lead measures and coal, from Forster, W, 'A treatise on a section of the strata, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the mountain of Cross Fell, in Cumberland; with remarks on mineral veins in general. Also the tables of the strata, in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, &c. To which is added, a treatise on the discovery, the opening, and the working of lead mines; with the dressing and smelting of lead ores", 2nd ed, Alston: Printed and sold by John Pattinson, (1821).
4) HAWKINS, Christopher, 'Observations on the tin trade of the ancients in Cornwall and on the "Ictis" of Diodorus Siculus: with a view of the Mount [St. Michael’s Mount]'. [London: Printed for J J Stockdale, 1811].
5) NELSON, R J, "Geological survey of the island of Jersey", from the Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, vol 6 (1829) p.359-378.
6) BUCKLAND, William, 'Order of superposition of strata in the British Islands', [?1817]. Note: this copy is in a different format to the one below.
7) BUCKLAND, William, 'Order of superposition of strata in the British islands', [?1821]. On reverse 'Order of Succession of the Secondary Floetz Formations, as sketched in a hasty Manuscript list, given by the later Herr Bergrath Werner to Professor Buckland, at Freyberg, in July 1816". [Note: A similar sheet is bound in Forster, W, 'A treatise on a section of the strata, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the mountain of Cross Fell, in Cumberland; with remarks on mineral veins in general...", 2nd ed, Alston: Printed and sold by John Pattinson, (1821).] |
| CustodialHistory | Note, the printed 1881 catalogue records the item as by 'Hilton'. |