Lost & Found: 1. S.R. Pattison

Abstract

The main interest of S. R. Pattison's collection of fossils is that both Sir Henry de la Beche and John Phillips used it when writing up their "Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset 1839" and the latter when writing "Figures and Descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset, 1841". Pattison early on drew attention to the fossils of the Petherwin limestone, S.W. of Launceston, Devon of the Upper Devonian. He placed his collections at the disposal of de la Beche (1839, p.59-60) and Phillips (1841, p.vi and 196). Presumably the repeated searches Sherborn (1940, p.105) made were to locate Pattison specimens figured by Phillips...