Lost & Found: 141. Wellcome Institute Geological Collection

Abstract

Wellcome Institute Transfer of Geological Material The Wellcome Institute's Geological collection has been deemed "surplus objects" (as defined by an order in Court of Mr. Justice Foster in 1977, ref. W 5098). As part of the review of its collections the Wellcome Institute has distributed its Geological Collection as follows: I. Fossil molluscs (from various sources) to the British Museum (Natural History), Dept. of Palaeontology. They included the type specimen of Area Diluvii, but are otherwise unexciting. XI. a) A typological collection of precious and semi-precious stones made (and catalogued minutely) by W.J. Lewis Abbott (c.1853-1933) of St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex. (See item 112 in found section), b) A similar...