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PUKCHASES. 



The principal purchases for the Museum have been as follows : — 



A Pluto Monkey ; four Yarkes, adult and young, fi-om Ecuador ; a 

 female Aoudad or Wild Sheep ; a female Ibex and kid, from Crete ; two 

 Flying Opossums and a discus, from New Guinea. 



Three Birds of Paradise {PnracUsca Racigiana, male and female, and 

 Paradisea atra, female); a rare Pigeon {Otidiphaps nohilis, Gould) ; two 

 D'Albertis's Crowned Pigeon and ten other Birds, from New Guinea ; a 

 Case of Rufifs {Machetes piignax); and specimens of Cariama, Frigate 

 Birds, Darters, and other Birds for Osteological purposes. 



Skeletons of a Rattlesnake and of 16 species of Fish. 



A series of Nests and Wood Cells formed by Ants and Bees, chiefly 

 exotic, from the private collection of the late Frederick Smith, F.L.S., 

 of the British Museum ; four boxes of Galls, together with the Insects 

 by which they were formed ; from the same collection. 



A series of original Dissections of Insects of the Orders Uynicnoptera, 

 Lepidoptera, and Diptera, made by the late John Curtis, F.L.S., for his 

 great work on British Entomology. 



A collection of about 100 species of Cirrhipeds. 



A collection of Shells of the Genus Nassa, purchased from Mr. F. P. 

 Marrat, comprising more than 1,000 varieties recorded by him in his 

 paper on this Genus in the Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophi- 

 cal Society of Liverpool for 1879-80. 



Specimens of Fusus Berniciensis, Dentalium vernedei, Limneria 

 caspica, and 63 other specimens of Shells. 



A specimen of Cestiun veneris, or Venus's Girdle, and 17 other 

 Zoophytes, in spirit, from Dr. Dohrn's Marine Zoological Station at 

 Naples. 



Specimens of Stylaster gracilis, from the South Seas, and two other 

 Corals. 



A large expanded specimen of Toilet Sponge, from Greece. 



A Section of the Femur of Iguanodon, and 27 sections of Coal-plants 

 for the Microscope. 



24 specimens of 12 species of Eadiolitcs; 9 sections of Fossil Sponges 

 (Choanites) ; an Ammonites Lewesiensis; and a femur of a fossil Reptile 

 (Pliosaurus). 



