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By this provision more space is available for the arrangement of 

 the Lemurs and the Quadrumana, and they are in consequence much 

 better displayed than was previously possible. 



The Cooke Bequest of Bkitish Lepidoptera. 



This Collection is under careful re-arrangement by Dr. J. W. Ellis, 

 Honorary Secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society, who has kindly undertaken the task. 



Purchases. 

 The principal purchases during the year have been as follows : — 



The Austin Collection of Fossils. 



The principal features consist of the well-known Collection of Carboni- 

 ferous and other Crinoids, to the collection and study of which the late 

 Major Austin, long resident in L-eland and subsequently at Bristol, 

 devoted so many years of his life ; and also of his Collection of Fossils 

 from the Millstone Grit discovered by him in Britain. Major Austin 

 commenced, but, from insufficient encouragement, did not complete his 

 work entitled, A Monograph on Recent and Fossil Crinoidea, with 

 Figures and Descriptions. Of this work, in quarto, only 128 pages, 16 

 plates, and frontispiece, were published. The unpublished drawings and 

 text remain the property of his family ; but the specimens figured and 

 described therein are now permanently placed in the Liverpool Museum. 



This important Collection was purchased on the recommendation of 

 the highest authorities on the subject, after an exhaustive examination by 

 the Rev. H. H. Higgins on behalf of the Committee. 



Selections from the Godeffroy Collection. 



The Brothers Godeffroy, distiugaished among the Merchant Princes of 

 Hamburg, for many years stimulated and encouraged, by all the means 

 in their power, a taste for the collection of objects of Natural History 

 among their numerous captains and agents in the Pacific Ocean. The 

 Godeffroy Museum acquired a world-wide fame, but reverses of fortune 

 caused it to be ultimately broken up and sold. Mr. Robert Damon, of 



