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The mineral collection of Thomas Pennant (1726–1798)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. Campbell Smith
W. Campbell Smith*
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Mineral Department, British Museum
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Thomas Pennant was born at Downing, Whitford, near Holywell, in 1726. A contemporary and correspondent of Linnaeus and Buffon, he is well known to zoologists as a pioneer of British zoology, and to him were addressed the letters of Gilbert White which form the greater part of 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne'. He travelled very extensively in the British Isles and wrote many accounts of his tours, perhaps the best known being his account of London and his 'Tour in Wales'.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 77 , July 1913 , pp. 331 - 342
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Copyright © 1913, The Mineralogical Society

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References

page 331 note 2 Geology of the neighbourhoods of Flint, Mold, and Ruthin,’ Geol. Survey Memoi., 1890, p. 159.et seq.

page 332 note 1 Sowerby, J., ‘ British Mineralogy,’ 1804, vol. i, p. 10; 1809, vol. iii, p. 1.; 1811, vol. iv, p. 178 Google Scholar.

page 332 note 2 David Pennant, junr was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1818.

page 332 note 3 The third volume deals with fossils. See Newton, R. B., Geol. Mag., 1913, Dec. 5, vol. xI p. 192 Google Scholar.

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page 336 note 5 E. L. Pontoppidan, ibid., p. 89.and p. 168.

page 337 note 1 In his description of this specimen Pennant writes: ‘ Sent me by Bishop Pontoppldan with the title of Lapis suillus or Swine stone, perhaps from its offensive smell, though he, in his history, p. 168. derives its name from another cause, viz., its efficacy in curing the orasiuk, a disease among the swine in Norway, where this spar is found in great quantities.'

page 337 note 2 The proposals for this book were issued in 1752, but only one part was ever published.

page 337 note 3 E. M. da Costa, ‘A Natural History of Fossils,’ Londo., 1757, p. vi.

page 337 note 4 E. M. da Costa, ibid., pp. 41-102.

page 337 note 5 E. M. da Costa7 ibid., p. 40.

page 338 note 1 Pennant, T., ‘Tour in Wales,’ London 1810, vol. iii, p. 264 Google Scholar.

page 338 note 2 Trans. Geol. Soc. Londo., 1821, ser. 1, vol. v, p. 595.

page 338 note 3 Pennant, T., ‘Tour in Wales,’ Londo., 1810, vol. iii, p. 218 Google Scholar.

page 338 note 4 T. Pennant, ‘Tour in Wales,’ 17781 p. 418.

page 339 note 1 Geology of the neighbourhoods of Flint, Mold, and Ruthin,’ Geol. Survey Memoi., 1890, p. 178.

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page 339 note 3 T.Pennant, ‘ Tour in Wales,’ 1778, p. 418.

page 339 note 3 T.Pennant, ‘ Tour in Wales,’ 1778, p. 418.

page 339 note 4 T.Pennant, ibid., p. 420.

page 340 note 1 T.Pennant, ‘ History of the parishes of Whiteford and Holywell,’ Londo., 1796, p. 254.

page 340 note 2 F.W. Budler,’ Handbook to the Minerals of the British Isles in the Museum of Practical Geology,’ 1905, p. 124.

page 340 note 3 T. Pennant, ‘Tour in Wales,’ 1778, p. 421.

page 340 note 4 T. Pennant, ‘ History of the parishes of Whiteford and Holywell,’ 1796, p. 122.

page 342 note 1 Pennant, T., Philosophical Transaction., 1750, vol. xlvi, p. 687 Google Scholar.

page 342 note 2 Pennant, T., ibid., 1756, vol. xlix, part it, p. 513 Google Scholar.