The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Sole survivors of the Lhwyd collection
Orthoceras and Actinocrinus Polydactylus [].Click image for full-size. Collector (minor)Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709) In Print: Early Science in Oxford. Vol. 3, 375a Description:Gunther says that all of Lhwyd's collections were at time of his writing (c.1925) lost, save for two Orthoceras and Actinocrinus Polydactylus, which he describes as follows:
Orthoceras (xvii century).
Now in University Museum. [Natural History Museum perhaps?]
This specimen was obtained from the Carboniferous Limestone at Bristol. It is figured by Lhwyd, who describes it as "1661. CYLINDRUS geniculatus. An fortè Ichthyospondylus aliquis è majoribus, multijugus; an potius Alveolaria quaedam maxima? Ibid. Vide Num. 1737*.
Actinocrinus Polydactylus (xviii century)
Now in University Museum.
This type specimen is from the Carboniferous Limestone of Caldy Island. It is figured by Lhwyd, Ichnographia, pl.22, fig.4, and in the Phil. Trans. for 1698. The passage quoted above sums up Lhwyd's views on such fossil remains.