Re: mystery labels
Hello Alan
We have just spent a couple of months working on our ammonite collection. Since the ones in the photo are from Whitby they are of special interest for us.
Hand-written labels crop up frequently in our historic collection; we believe most are written by Martin Simpson, who was curator here for many decades in the nineteenth century.
I will be in Whitby Museum next week (we are volunteer curators) and will see if your handwriting specimen matches any of ours.
A quick look at our website type specimens shows that Ammonites gagateus is probably now Gagaticeras gagateum, and that doesn't look like a match for the specimen it is next to:
http://www.whitbymuseum.org.uk/type/grp02/sim104.htm
The Ammonites subcarinatum is probably now Phylloceras subcarinatum, but I'd have to confirm that. I don't have an illustration to hand.
Let me know if you have any further information, and please keep them well-wrapped.
Yours
Roger Osborne
Hon Curator of Geology
Whitby Museum
On 13/02/2014 14:35, "Howell, Alan" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Good afternoon all
Does anyone recognise the handwriting / style of these labels? They are the only labels in a small completely unattributed 5 drawer cabinet of fossils which is in our collection. The labels were in the compartment with the two ammonites, so if anyone is able to comment on whether the labels are appropriate to those specimens that would be also very helpful.
Thanks
Alan
Alan Howell
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