James Parkinson, the Author of “Orgaic Remains of a Former World.”

Abstract

IN a paper on the subject of museums, which was read in 1891 before the meeting of an association, James Parkinson is thus spoken of without any subsequent qualification of the statement made:— “Finally, a private lottery was arranged for its disposal (the Leverian Museum), and in 1785 the prize was drawn by James Parkinson, a dentist, who took not the least interest in natural history or in museums.”