. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 186 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS was one of the earliest workers to use thin sections for determining internal structures of bryozoans and corals and to then utilise this information for taxonomic work. Since it is thought that Nicholson cut many of the sections himself, we can only assume that the Gray material was dealt with at St Andrews. His collaborator. Robert Etheridge. Jnr (1847-1920) had begun his career as a held geologist in Australia with the Geological Survey of Victoria. When this organisation was disbanded in 1873
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 186 R. J. CLEEVELY, R. P. TRIPP AND Y. HOWELLS was one of the earliest workers to use thin sections for determining internal structures of bryozoans and corals and to then utilise this information for taxonomic work. Since it is thought that Nicholson cut many of the sections himself, we can only assume that the Gray material was dealt with at St Andrews. His collaborator. Robert Etheridge. Jnr (1847-1920) had begun his career as a held geologist in Australia with the Geological Survey of Victoria. When this organisation was disbanded in 1873, he returned to the joining the Geological Survey of Scotland. At the time of his work with Nicholson. Etheridge had been appointed to the staff of the British Museum (Natural History) and both father and son were engaged in dealing with the transfer of the collections from Bloomsbury to South Kensington. He worked principally on Palaeozoic invertebrate fossils. Subsequently, in 1887. Etheridge returned to Australia, holding several Survey and Museum appointments, before becoming the Director of the Australian Museum, Sydney in 1917 (see Rec. Aust. Mus. 15: 1-27. 1926). Their Girvan publication was supported by a grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in the Preface of the first Fascicule, the two authors also recorded their gratitude to Robert Gray for providing additional financial help towards publication (see p. vi). Later, in a letter (TD: 19 November 1881) Mrs Gray reported that progress on 'Nicholson's Ayrshire work' had stopped owing to lack of a further grant from the Royal Society [of Edinburgh]. The following year, in another letter (TD: 25 March 1882) Mrs Gray expressed her obligation to Davidson for having 'worked out' her Girvan material, unlike Nicholson & Etheridge, who had decided not to continue. Mrs Gray seems to have gradually become disenchanted with the progress of their monograph and its eventual abandonment caused her to seek the help of
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