Lost & Found: 191. Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853)

The subscription list in The Silurian System refers to 'Strickland, Hugh E., Esq., Cracombe House, Evesham, Worcestershire' Fig. 16. Specimen provided by H.E. Strickland and figured in The Silurian System by Murchison (1839, pi.2, fig.14) as Ctenacanthus ornatus. ORS, Sapey, Worcestershire. Reproduced at approximately original publication size. and his geological activities were acknowledged (Murchison, pp.21, 597). See Fig.16. Hodgetts (1986, pp.15-18) provided some family and ephemeral details regarding HES's association with the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club. Cleevely reported that a large collection was bequeathed to the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, in 1888, by the wife of HES, and that material presented to the Geological Society by HES between 1841 and 1853 is with the BGS. Andrews (p.44) noted a HES specimen figured...