Lost & Found: 161. Denstone College Collection

Abstract

Tom Sharpe (Dept. of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CFl 3NP) writes: Tt may be of interest to record that the NMW acquired several specimens from the Cyril Brett mentioned in connection with Denstone College (see also Fig.3). The first acquisition in 1923 from *Prof. Cyril Brett, Denstone College Museum, Staffs.* comprised six fossils from the Trias and six specimens of salt pseudomorphs from the Keuper Marl of Staffordshire, and the second in 1934 from *Cyril Brett MA, 23 Lon-y-dail, Rhiwbina', comprised gem gravel (sapphire and garnet) from Butte, Montana, USA.* Fig.3. Some Denstone College fossils; from Smith, W.B. 1915, Cambridge count\ geographies: Staffordshire, p.34. Cambridge University Press. (Walter Bernard Smith was the Senior Science Master at...