Lost & Found: 229. Sir George Tuthill (1772-1835)

Abstract

Michael P. Cooper (see LF227) writes: 'Mineral specimens from this collection, among others, were offered for sale in New York in 1846 'during the session of the American Naturalists the first week in September'. The specimens had been 'recently purchased by a gentleman in London, long distinguished for his devotion to Mineralogy, by whom they were sent to a friend in this country'. A copy of the sale catalogue is in the possession of Nick Carruth, mineral dealer in Cornwall. Tuthill is presumably the physician George Leman Tuthill (1772-1835), FRS 1810, knighted 1820. His library was sold by Sotheby in June 1835 (DNB).'...